Via Crooked Timber, John Gibson outdoes himself:But the point is, the temple of the law is so sacrosanct that an occasional chief executive cannot flaunt it once in a while, sort of drop his drawers on the courthouse steps and moon the judges, as a way...
Those damn, dirty East Coast sportswriting hacks. . .Oh, wait. Nevermind.Hope the losses weren't too devastating.
Who is America's worst blogger? Some parameters:1. Partisanship cannot, in itself, be evidence of bad blogging. 2. The blogger must be "major" as in commonly read and referrred to.The two.
Amanda Marcotte and Roy Edroso find whatever connection Peggy "Mr. Reagan would not have dismissed the story of the dolphins as Christian kitsch" Noonan had with rationality permanently severed.
Matt Duss has an excellent series on Israeli moves to consolidate gains in the West Bank, all happening with nary a peep from the United States. The fox is guarding.
Excellent post from Erik at Alterdestiny on mountain top removal in West Virginia. It takes a mere fraction, maybe 1% or less of the people it used to take to.
It's another stunningly beautiful day in Seattle. To reiterate, January, February, and March usually aren't like this. We're two inches short for January, three inches short for February, and 2/3rds of the way through March, we're at about 1/4 normal monthly rainfall. Things have gotten a...
...about Terry Schiavo: Nobody will remember any of this in 18 months. Those who do were going to vote Republican anyway. "Saving" Terry Schiavo is probably the least evil thing.
Michael Berube channels Rick Perlstein: Besides, as Rick Perlstein pointed out to me a few days ago, there’s something very, very troubling about the whole Beinart analogy between anti-Islamism and.
Dan Drezner is correct to dispute David Adesnik's claim that George Kennan was a realist. Kennan certainly had much in common with realists. He believed that foreign policy should be conducted by impassionate professionals, and should be insulated from the popular will. This accords very nicely...
Via Laura Rozen comes a very nice profile of Kenneth Waltz from the Boston Globe: Waltz is not a crank. He is not a member of an apocalyptic death cult..
Part I Part II Two Royal Navy admirals had a chance to stop, or at least slow, Goeben and Breslau. Admiral Archibald Milne had under his command the battlecruisers Inflexible,.