Great post by Brad Plumer on the subject of the 1996 welfare reform bill. The key point is that most assertions that welfare reform has "worked" reference nothing more than the fact that fewer people on welfare. And as Brad notes, this is just a tautology;...
Shorter Verbatim Mark Steyn: "Ann Coulter鈥檚 new book Godless: The Church of Liberalism is a rollicking read very tightly reasoned and hard to argue with...Lest you doubt the left鈥檚 pieties.
It looks as if there's been a plane crash in Lexington.... Fox News, unhelpfully, was speculating as to whether terrorism was the cause.
In the wake of Snakes on a Plane, Dana Stevens at Slate requested additional, literal minded film titles. The best:The Creature Waits in the StructureThat's Not Sangria!Kittens for BreakfastWoody Allen is Too Old for ThisThe Lord Helps Nonthreatening SouthernersI am Explosive, BosomyAnd finally my favorite, which...
The Washington Naval Treaty dealt the Royal Navy a raw deal. The RN posssesed 32 dreadnoughts and 9 battlecruisers, compared to the 22 dreadnoughts of the USN and the 8.
This gets it right.
Battlestar Galactica has won Salon's prestigious "Buffy" award for television's most underappreciated show. Previous winners include The Wire and Veronica Mars. This bit is particularly nice:Ten reasons not to watch "Battlestar Galactica":1. No light sabers. Not a one.2. The gripping, conflicted experiment with democracy aboard Galactica...
Yglesias points to this excellent article on Italian and French military capabilities. In brief, "thanks, but no thanks" is probably the best response to an offer of Italian military support.
This reminds me of this.
More evidence that Bill Petti is right. We cannot dictate how Iraqis will interpret a withdrawal from Iraq.The British withdrew from Camp Abu Naji near Amara. They only gave the Iraqis one day notice. This short notice suggests that the evacuation was done under considerable duress;...
Make sure to remember these disgraceful actions of the Alabama Democratic Party the next time you hear "Mudcat" Sanders or some other idiot go into the umpteenth self-pitying rant about.
Until now, former Safeco CEO and Slade Gorton advisor Mike McGavick has been running a competent if uninspired challenge to first-term senator Maria Cantwell, pretending to run against Washington, DC.