By Pepper of the Daily Pepper I don’t understand why Lawrence Summers didn’t get the boot from Harvard immediately after his statement that women and science don’t mix, but he’s finally leaving. Of course, it’s going to take Harvard years to clean up the mess. Alan Dershowitz has a different point of view in the […]
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Self-Defense?
I think Fred Kaplan’s “War Stories” are some of the most insightful and interesting articles on Slate.com, and yesterday’s was no exception. But, to my mind, there was something problematic here: “Nearly every nation has an interest in halting, detouring, or at least slowing down the Iranian mullahs’ quest for atomic bombs. But, as even […]
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South Dakotan Anti-Choicers Gearing up for Roe Challenge
Shakes here… Fasten your seatbelts. We’re in for quite a ride, I fear. Lawmakers here are preparing to vote on a bill that would outlaw nearly all abortions in South Dakota, a measure that could become the most sweeping ban approved by any state in more than a decade, those on both sides of the […]
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The Bush Legacy
Laid up sick last week, I had as my company Imposter: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy, by Bruce Bartlett, destined to become every liberal’s favorite conservative book of 2006, if not the entire Bush years. The book is a stirring indictment of the White House’s economic policy, focused on […]
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All United Arab Emirates, All The Time
by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math On January 17th, Bush nominated David Sanborn to the post of Administrator of the Maritime Administration of the Department of Transportation. Who, you may be asking yourself, is David Sanborn? Well, for his last job, he was the Director of Operations for European and Latin American operations for … […]
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The Restaurant at the End of History
By Lance Mannion I’d forgotten about this guy. Back in the early 1990s, when I read Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man , I was aware that he thought he was laying out a triumphalist’s manifesto. We’d won the Cold War and that was that. The world had gotten to where it […]
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The Italian Job
Rome — In this ancient city, just as in Washington, the origins of the infamous Niger yellowcake forgeries — the documents purporting to prove that Iraq was contracting to purchase vast quantities of uranium and cited by George W. Bush in his 2003 State of the Union address as a pretext for war — continue […]
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Missing Response
by Ben Adler, CampusProgress.org Second only to the innocent deaths in the response across the Middle East to the Danish cartoons is the tragedy of the brave Muslim journalists who reprinted them. According to the New York Times there are “11 journalists in five countries facing prosecution for printing some of the cartoons.” Where are […]
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Life in the Other Washington
by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math Yesterday, researchers sighted the highly endangered compromisus reasonablus in the State Capitol, when Governor Chris Gregoire (D-WA) announced a compromise on medical malpractice reform. Both sides gave up their biggest demans: explicit caps on payouts for the insurance companies, and the suspension of repeat offenders for the trial lawyers […]
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Pass the Popcorn
— by Battlepanda It doesn’t happen often, but I happen to think that Bush is right on “Portgate” — if we let a British company run those ports for all these years, there is simply no reason not to let a UAE company run it now. Like the Drumstir sez: Would we really be any […]