I’ve never understood the appeal of Confederate nostalgia to libertarians. No matter how enamored you are with states’ rights, subsidiarity and all the rest, it seems to me that institutionalized chattel slavery is a...
It seems that Ralph Peters – best known as an unfailing advocate of the Chechen school of counter-insurgency tactics – has jumped aboard the “get out of Afghanistan now” bandwagon: Yet, in Afghanistan, we’ve...
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...
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...
This slideshow is an amazing testament to the utter incompetence of the Washington Nationals.
The decision to remove missile defense systems from Eastern Europe has provoked a lot of unusually silly commentary, but the latest from Townhall deserves special recognition: It is all too reminiscent of the Hungarian...
Bunch approvingly links to this piece of music criticism from ESPN (?), the thesis of which seems to be that the Beatles, while great for their time, haven’t aged very well. I’ll leave the...
Nuclear disarmament is the college debate topic this year, so happily I’m paying closer attention to nukes than to, say, taxpayer-funded prostitution rings. The latest development is fairly straightforward: Obama plans to disassemble a...
It turns out that rumors of a religiously-inspired anti-Darwin backlash were greatly exaggerated (credit goes to Freddie for his initial skepticism) – apparently, the Darwin biopic Creation can’t find a US distributor because it...
A sharp op-ed on why safe havens for terrorists in Afghanistan don’t matter.
At one key moment in “The Breaking Point,” Dos Passos tells Hemingway, “The question I keep putting to myself is what’s the use of fighting a war for civil liberties, if you destroy civil...
Daniel Drezner sounds the alarm over Obama’s dangerous protectionist tendencies.
David Weigel’s article on the cultural and political gap between Washington conservatives and their tea party counterparts makes for an interesting read.
Jonathan Chait’s essay on Ayn Rand is worth a read. Given the rise of the tea party movement, his basic point – that Rand’s influence has led to an over-emphasis on a morally absolutist...
Evan Thomas and Will Wilkinson have some interesting things to say on the subject of healthcare. The genius at Newsweek who decided on “The Case for Killing Granny” as a title needs a crash...
Merit pay’s out, but teacher job security may still take a hit. Here’s The Washington Post on the final round of contract negotiations between DC and the teachers union (via):
. . . is listening to a thoroughly befuddled Chris Collinsworth try to explain the awful offensive play from both teams. That third-and-one play action call from Green Bay was pretty awesome, though.
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on Deficits, Debt, and DOGEIt's true that in literally all aspects of life we have two choices at the most abstract level, chan…
on Deficits, Debt, and DOGEExcept I gave an example in this very article that there wasn’t. Hell, Obama didn’t sign a significa…
on From Politico: Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong.This is really bad, with some pretty serious misinterpretation of statistics (e. g. assuming that ev…
on Deficits, Debt, and DOGEI went back and reread Chris' comment and he made no mention of bad or good people. In fact, the 2 t…
on Deficits, Debt, and DOGEMaybe we should ask the Republicans to go back to Mitt Romney and Democrats will support him this ti…
on Deficits, Debt, and DOGENo real disagreement on the principle. This is where I interject that there was a 'smarter governmen… on Deficits, Debt, and DOGEIt seems like we're in a place between: 1. Status Quo 2. Changing Things I can understand the argume… on Deficits, Debt, and DOGEThis is probably your weakest attempt at avoiding a question. on Deficits, Debt, and DOGEI absolutely agree with that. And as someone who supported Afghanistan and argued that Iraq was impo… on Deficits, Debt, and DOGEI am against domestic boondoggles. But all domestic boondoggles at least put money in the pockets of…
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