Hugh Hewitt, one of America’s Most Easily Mocked Pundits™ argues that the first debate of the 2012 GOP...
Year: 2010
There are some good things to be said about absorbing periodic electoral “shellackings.” For one thing, it...
Below, Ned rightly derides Rep. Peter King for calling the verdict in the Ghailani trial a “total...
From the comments at reddit: Why isn’t it surprising that the porn industry is leading the way...
I’m preparing to head back to France next Saturday, preparing a Napoleon course for the spring, and trying...
Image via Wikipedia That’s how incoming House homeland security chair Pete King described the Ghailani trial. Ghailani...
I’ve gotten some pushback in the comments for citing S.L.A. Marshall’s findings on how many soldiers actually...
In the comments, Mike at the Big Stick writes: I’ve often used the term Progressive Conservative for...
I finished the third installment of The Hunger Games last night, Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins, and my...
St. Jerome Meditating 1525-30 Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen
Thoreau of Unqualified Offerings is well worth reading.
In my last post I noted, provocatively, that there is more evidence for President Obama’s “mere Christianity,”...
“To the extent that Washington is "broken" (and I’d argue it’s less broken than some suggest) it’s...
It’s a rare day indeed that I get to say this, but today I’m quite proud of my...
During World War II, Brigadier General S.L.A. Marshall asked average soldiers how they conducted themselves in battle....
I am not an economist, nor do I play one on the internet. In fact, I’ve never...
In my first substantive post I suggested not only that perhaps the stimulus had failed, but that...
Matt Yglesias plumps for monarchy, based on — what else? — human nature: [I]t seems inevitable in...
As a general rule, congressional bipartisanship is the political equivalent of the Crips and the Bloods banding...
I quoted Jeff MacGregor the other day on Bruce Springsteen and Ronald Reagan: Maybe the most interesting...
