over at Obsidian Wings
von uses the graph (below) to illustrate how horrible Obama’s projected deficits are compared to Bush’s then tries to act (in the comments) as though the cost of the two wars (or military appropriations)...
Monthly Archive: June 2009
war…
…with these people would be a tragic mistake. I hope we can avert it, and I hope reform comes nonviolently.
reinventing the spiel
What can one say about Frank Gaffney’s recent Washington Times piece that is worthy of such a paranoid piece of propagandist drivel? First, let me stress that I doubt very much Gaffney truly believes...
“The Persecution of Sarah Palin”
Matthew Continetti is obviously a smart guy and one of my favorite bloggingheads participants, so why the hell is he going to spend the year churning out a Palin hagiography? Is the goal to...
Abortion IS subject to the democratic process!
This post is by necessity going to be almost identical to posts I’ve made before, but the point is so glaringly obvious and yet so ignored that it has to be made again and...
Judging is Hard
A fairly banal observation, I know, but one worth revisiting in light of the the latest Supreme Court appointment. Here’s a telling paragraph from Jeffrey Toobin’s excellent profile of Chief Justice John Roberts: Roberts’s...
so…
…anybody got any job hookups in the Providence/anywhere in Rhode Island areas? Maybe in the writing/publishing/editing/anything fields?
Whelan Apologizes
Ed Whelan has issued an apology to Publius (here and here) for which I think he deserves some credit. Obviously he can’t undo whatever harm was or was not already done, but his apologies are...
small government, or just low tax burden
I agree with John Schwenkler’s descriptive case in this post, while disagreeing with his prescriptions moving forward. One thing that I think needs to be pointed out as we consider the major divisions in...
Post-Economics
If you want to see two very acute minds (respectfully) duel with sharpened blades, then check out the comment thread to this post by ED as he and John Schwenkler (yet again) battle over...
Monday Night Humor
With the gangbusters opening of Hangover and the colossal box office failure of Land of the Lost, I thought what better time to play my all time favorite clip from Old School (another Todd...
A Lose-Lose: The Outing of Publius
For the most part, I have little to add on the ethics of the Outing of Publius that hasn’t already been said, particularly by James Joyner, though soon to be League podcast participants Dan...
Misunderstanding Markets cntd.
“[T]he folks at Harvard, Columbia, and Yale, are held accountable by … whom, exactly? Oh, that’s right: they’re accountable to their customers, who by virtue of their participation in a market that – ideally,...
the mac mini so far
So, now that I’m a parent and I spend most of my time either outside, with my family, at work, or blogging and have no time at all to play video games, I ditched...
Post offices used to be awesome.
Maybe the modern postal service could look to the past to help make the lines more bearable?
Poulos Bait: Shakira Edition
From the NyTimes: Celebrity philanthropy, rock ’n’ roll philanthropy, is no longer a novelty, but what Shakira and ALAS were trying was indeed new. They were looking to use the power of pop to...
Sunday Poem Series
Self Knowledge by Kahlil Gibran And a man said, “Speak to us of Self-Knowledge.” And he answered, saying: Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. But your ears...
a poem for sunday
Anastasia & Sandman by Larry Levis The brow of a horse in that moment when The horse is drinking water so deeply from a trough It seems to inhale the water, is holy. I...
