Echidne, Steve and Mahablog have already effectively covered this Times story about a new government study about public and private schools. There are two stories here: 1)the differences between the two are modest, and public schools actually outperform conservative Christian schools in many respects, and 2)the...
Make sure to read Kingdaddy's excellent series on the Barbary Wars:Part IPart IIPart IIIPart IVKingdaddy has some good observations, and makes some interesting parallels between the dilemmas facing the early.
Make sure to read Kevin Baker's brilliant essay on the "stab in the back" myth. My favorite bit:The POW/MIA flags, with their black-and-white iconography of shame, now fly everywhere in.
I certainly don't have any, so I direct you first to this post by Hilzoy, which does the exceptionally useful job of laying about the underlying facts and dilemmas in a lucid manner. For analysis, see Jonathan. And E. J. Dionne notes that the Domino (or...
I'll be on WVLK at 10:07am Eastern to discuss the Israel-Arab dispute. As readers of this blog know, this is a subject that I'm well-versed in and love to talk.
Friday Cat Blogging... Frodo and Pip
The Reverend William Lawson takes the conservative victimization ball and runs it well past the point of pure moral idiocy:Lawson likened Lay to James Byrd, a black man who was dragged to death in a racially motivated murder near Jasper eight years ago."Ken Lay was neither...
Variety reports... The Sopranos will not return until March. I wouldn't be surprised if this is the first of several delays. Rome will return in January, but will only have.
Good Defense News article (subscription only) on the deployment of the DF-31 and the DF-31A. These are the first Chinese missiles capable of MIRVing (3-5 warheads each of up to.
Yes, I realize this is an unhealthy obsession.Mickey has responded:Numerous readers email to note Plano's very Republican voting record--Collins County, of which it's a part, went 71% for Bush in 2004, for example. It's certainly a Bush bastion. It's less clear to me that it's a...
The Reds had a tendency to blow late inning leads. This was a problem. They have now solved this problem by ensuring that they will never again take a lead.
As a follow-up to my previous posts about Georgia's attempt to pass an unconstitutional voting law, the federal courts have blocked enforcement of Georgia's new attempt at vote suppression electoral.