so long and thanks for all the fish
It really has been interesting to watch Little Green Footballs, once so popular amongst righty blogs, make enemy after enemy on the right. Powerline has apparently de-linked LGF. Charles Johnson writes:
Monthly Archive: September 2009
Sex Offender Registries
A few weeks ago Jamelle argued that sex offender registries are counterproductive, doing more harm than good in many cases. This shows one reason why, in a particularly dramatic fashion. (H/T: Radley Balko).
good stuff
Igor Volsky has a very good breakdown of the proposed amendments to the Senate health care bill, here.
Few people actually care about partisanship
Unlike quite a few of my liberal fellow-travelers, I think Megan McArdle is a pretty decent econ-blogger. That said, she tends to stumble a little bit when it comes to political prognostication: I now...
Soft bigotry, meet low expectations
After I read Ross Douthat’s column this morning, I tweeted that I was nominally on board with his attempt to massage George W. Bush’s reputation. Three hours, two cups of coffee, and a nice...
Go Mary Washington!
The college policy debate season has begun, and Mary Washington is competing at the inaugural national tournament at Georgia State University. This year’s topic is nuclear disarmament, our top team went 6-1 in preliminary...
Sunday Poem Series
To Say Before Going to Sleep by Rainer Maria Rilke translated by Albert Earnest Flemming I would like to sing someone to sleep, have someone to sit by and be with. I would like...
assignment
On the panel for This Week with George Stephanopoulos today: conservative George Will, conservative Peggy Noonan, Republican strategist Ed Gillespie, Democrat Robert Reich, Democrat Donna Brazile. Last week’s panel: conservative David Brooks, conservative George...
Enemy-Centric Warfare
Hat tip to Br. Will who sent me this Tom Ricks post at Foreign Policy on how enemy-centric (i.e. “brtual”) counterinsurgency was effective in the past as opposed to the once and now future/current...
That Horse? It Left the Stable Long Ago. We Called Him Seabiscuit
David Rivkin and Lee Casey take to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to claim that any individual insurance mandate would “likely” fail to pass Constitutional muster under even a modern understanding of...
sheer nonsense
“I now put the chances of a substantial health care bill passing at 75%, and the chances of the Democrats losing the house in 2010 at about 66%.” ~ Megan McArdle Megan’s second estimate...
Irving Kristol RIP
Whatever you may think of the man, he made an enormous contribution to the political debate in America. He was 89. See also: The Weekly Standard round-up and Sonny Bunch
“Street Fight”
Via The Weekly Standard, I see that Forest Whitaker is producing a five-part follow-up to “Street Fight,” an Oscar-nominated film that follows Cory Booker’s (ultimately unsuccessful) attempt to a unseat an incredibly corrupt incumbent...
Our Losing Season
This slideshow is an amazing testament to the utter incompetence of the Washington Nationals.
reforms to the current health care proposal ctd.
Tyler Cowen wades through the Baucus proposal. Several points: 1. CBO scoring is a very useful institution, for purposes of fiscal discipline, but you shouldn’t confuse it with true cost estimates. Often a negative...
NATO-R
With Vladimir Putin congratulating President Obama on scrapping (the rather nutty) missile defense system, I think it’s again time to ask the question why NATO just doesn’t include Russia or NATO be scrapped in...
