Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, writing in Foreign Policy: In this, Obama was following two decades of magical thinking among both greens and liberal Democrats about energy technology. In this view, energy efficiency pays...
At the Corner, Mark Krikorian proposes one possible explanation for Haiti’s woes: My guess is that Haiti’s so screwed up because it wasn’t colonized long enough. The ancestors of today’s Haitians, like elsewhere in...
The one single refrain we’ve heard (especially from Broderists) over the last few years when it comes to those who claim nothing should be done about Bush-era “enhanced interrogation techniques” is that prosecutions or...
Hopefully I’ll have more tonight or tomorrow on the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United. But I am amazed at the hyperventilating response from McCain-Feingold backers. Is there any evidence that McCain-Feingold succeeded in...
From The New York Times: With Democrats reeling from the Republican victory in the Massachusetts special Senate election, President Obama on Wednesday signaled that he might be willing to set aside his goal of achieving...
No, I’m not talking about the Lions breaking their NFL record 26 game road losing streak even as I write this. I’m talking about Detroit Mayor Dave Bing’s plan to try to consolidate the...
I understand what Jamelle is trying to say in response to E.D. I do. But I think Jamelle is fundamentally misreading the GOP and the nature of what can make something meaningfully “bi-partisan” (much as...
Devcat is working on correcting some bugs that came with the last WP update.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25Thanks, hadn't seen that. So the French Scientist was randomly selected for screening and the TSA (m…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25Are we talking about power responding to insults to power and limiting ourselves to that? Because, i…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25I was talking about lèse-majesté. You are free to talk about whatever topic you desire. on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25Well, if stuff like that doesn't count either, I'm going to be stuck talking about prosecutions of p…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its… on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25That is more a problem with the application of qualified immunity than with anything else.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25Lee: The people screaming genocide were applying the very broadly defined Convention Against Genocid…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25...yes? https://www.newsweek.com/border-patrol-checking-phones-social-media-messages-us-immigration-… on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25Is censorshp for stuff like "Fauci funded the labs that leaked Covid 19" considered "prosecution" or…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25We figured then. and know now, that Zuckerberg was classified in the wrong phylum. He does not belon…
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