Hugh Hewitt files a last-minute entry in the Golden Winger nominations, Soggy Biscuit division:And that’s why every president, whether you like him or not, deserves a Doris Kearns Goodwin, who will go back there…and you don’t get it for a hundred fifty years, unfortunately, because Lincoln...
Mr. Trend has a nifty little post about Brazil's World War II Memorial. Brazilian Rangers served in Italy in World War II, and Brazil's navy conducted anti-submarine patrols in both.
Colonel Stanley Kurtz grants us a rare glimpse into the dark recesses of the wingnut mind. Confronting the possibility that the "MSM" may have been more or less accurate in.
Rich Lowry:In Iraq, the media’s biases happen to fit the circumstances. Being primed to consider any military conflict a quagmire and another Vietnam is a drawback when covering a successful U.S. military intervention, but not necessarily in Iraq. Most of the pessimistic warnings from the mainstream...
Matt has a point that bears emphasis. Among the wingnutty, the argument that restrictive rules of engagement are ruining Iraq has become all the rage. Now, it's possible that rules.
Recently, Yglesias asked if he should feel guilty for preferring Let's Go to any 2006 album. I completely reject the premise of the question--would anybody feel guilty for thinking that.
Henley has today's edition. IOZ beat me to it as well, but this bit in particular deserves to have its 5-year waiting period waived and be granted immediate induction into the Wall Street Journal Non-Sequitur Hall of Fame:If there are politicians, academics or journalists anywhere in...
As a quick follow-up to Rob's post below, I think Publius adds a critical point: the odds of a similarly draconian sentence if the race of the victim and perpetrator.
People who have seen my writings about Ralph Nader will not be surprised that I tend to be skeptical of "heighten the contradictions" arguments. As such, I'm afraid that on.
See Eugene Volokh on a 17 year old who received a ten year sentence in Georgia for engaging in oral sex with a 15 year old girl. Also see Sully. Peking Duck makes the relevant point:We recently had an impassioned thread on the inanities of China's...
I'm off to Virginia for the holidays and -- as one of those freaks who actually gets along with his immediate family -- will probably be enjoying myself too much.
Do you suffer from the heartbreak of extra money? Do you still have cash left after buying everyone on your list a gift? Instead of exchanging that money for useless.