Andy McCarthy, just askin’ questions
Seriously, National Review. This is getting embarrassing: I didn’t suggest that Bill Ayers is the author of one of Barack Obama’s biographies — I reported that someone else had made the suggestion and had...
Yearly Archive: 2009
Fiscal Responsibility, part II
I don’t understand how Conor can say this with a straight face: You’d think after rightly complaining about the Bush Administration’s unprecedented irresponsibility for eight years, leading Democrats would understand that we’re trapped in...
quote for the day
“We combat uncompromising and irreducible philosophical oppositions presented by all kinds of absolutism: dualisms of reason and imagination, of knowledge and opinion, of irrefutable self-evidence and deceptive will, of a universally accepted objectivity and...
The Unprincipled Conservative.
Alex Knapp takes a look at the GOP’s newly proposed set of principles by which all GOP candidates would have to abide to receive GOP funding and shows how they are not only incoherent...
How to get through airport security (with your toiletries intact)
A useful primer from The Economist.
The Annual Misuse of Hate Crime Statistics
NOTE: SIGNIFICANT UPDATES BELOW THE JUMP. Every year around this time, the FBI publishes its statutorily-mandated annual report on hate crime statistics. Like clockwork, every year that report gets misused no matter what the FBI...
Momentum for marijuana legalization builds
Speaking of drugs, the current level of support (or at least openness) to marijuana legalization among mainstream pundits is pretty unprecedented.
“The Fall of Mexico”
After reading this article, it seems as if legalization is the only solution to Mexico’s drug problem. Countries without strong independent judiciaries and relatively non-corrupt public institutions don’t have the luxury of outlawing drugs.
Modernity, Christianity and Islam
I linked to this earlier, but amateur history buffs will find Cato Unbound’s discussion on the origins of modernity pretty fascinating. The central point of contention is the so-called “first cause” of modernity –...
Sunday Poem Series
The Twa Corbies (traditional folk song, originally anthologized by T. Ravenscroft) As I was walking all alane, I heard twa corbies making a mane; The tane unto the t’other say, ‘Where sall we gang...
Inane Bleg for Vegans
No snark intended here, but what is the vegan position on flu vaccines that rely on replicating the virus in chicken eggs?
For History Buffs
A bunch of interesting stuff has been floating around the Internet this month. My favorites:
Tucker Carlson to launch new right-leaning news site: The Daily Caller
This should be cool. I like Carlson. I think he’s a pretty smart guy, one of the more honest voices on the right. We’ll see what it’s like when it goes live…
Applause
Dave Schuler goes on a fine rant against Tom Friedman’s magnificent straw man on climate legislation.
Meanwhile, at True/Slant…
So at my American Tory blog I talk about: Sarah Palin (twice!) Teachers’ unions strong-arming their best teachers. Republican hypocrisy on fiscal responsibility. The best news in ages in the healthcare reform saga. And I start talking...
Weekend Open Thread
As you may have noticed, the last few days the regular gents have been lazy dogs like Puck here. Or if you want to be generous to us, we’ve just had collective writers’ block. ...
Investment advice: put your money into prisons
Arizona is considering selling off its prisons as part of a larger process of balancing the budget. Even death row would be privately run. The state government predicts the move could save them $100...
So much for school reform
DC Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee is now enmeshed in this incredibly lurid sex scandal.
