Democracy on the march in Iraq! Human rights groups have condemned the "barbaric" murder of a 14-year-old boy, who, according to witnesses, was shot on his doorstep by Iraqi police for the apparent crime of being gay.Ahmed Khalil was shot at point-blank range after being accosted...
Just to assuage the many angry emails and commenters demanding to know when they will get some more hockey blogging, the Lemieux/Berube analysis of Round 2 is now up. His.
Friday Cat Blogging... Nelson and Starbuck
Well, how about that. It may seem counterintuitive to think that increased access to and education about contraception will prevent unwanted pregnancies and hence lead to fewer abortions--what a crazy idea, tried only by those crazy liberal democracies that don't see the American health care system...
Things, we should know by know, can always get worse. Keeping this simple truth in mind, we can be less surprised that Caitlin Flanagan has decided to supplement her "feminists.
It's not exactly surprising that Haley Barbour would refuse to issue a posthumous pardon to unjustly convicted civil rights pioneer Clyde Kennard. (And I should say that I happen to.
Shorter A. Yasmine Rassam: "Anybody who thinks that women's rights have taken a step backward as Iraq becomes an Islamic theocracy with limited coercive capacity must think Saddam was a liberal feminist, because of course things can only get worse if they start at an optimal...
Read Shakes. I wondered the same thing myself when I saw the Burger King commercial; since when has male identity been about eating awful, heart attack inducing hamburgers? I love.
While I certainly don't see this as a reason for celebration, and while as longtime readers know (and I will return to sometime in the near future) I'm a tepid.
Game 7 watchin' tonight (NHL Game 7s are about as exciting as anything in sports, but if you have a rooting interest they don't actually provide any pleasure when you're watching them...Well, actually there was no tension at all. The word "fiasco" seems grossly inadequate...) so...
Why is Terry Francona playing Wily Mo Pena in centerfield? Why not just play David Ortiz in center?
Another one of those Bozell-lite critics of the dread Liberal EMM ESS EMM tries to turn this WaPo article noting the egregious flip-flop involved in Bush's recent demagogic rhetoric about.