Christopher Hitchens is leaving The Nation. He also offers a simple reason why attacking Iraq is part of the broader Islamist War:
And a friendly Iraq, free again to trade and to make contact with the outside world, could transform the atmosphere of the Middle East.
To take one small example, Iraq would no longer be […]
Lynne Stewart, radical lawyer, charged with helping a convicted terrorist release calls to violence shows her cold, inhuman attitude toward the victims of September 11 and civilian casualities in general:
The Pentagon was ‘’a better target’’; the people in the towers ‘’never knew what hit them. They had no idea that they could ever be a […]
Chris points out a John Dean (of Watergate fame) article on the Seventeenth Amendment. That’s the one that allows direct election of Senators. Chris calls it one of the worst changes to the constitution. Dean argues that it allowed the federal government to trample over states’ rights because Senators were no longer […]
A Vermont federal judge ruled the federal death penalty unconstitutional.
“Federal Death Penalty Again Ruled Unconstitutional”
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Gerhard Schroeder wins, but the U.S. government isn’t happy. President Bush hasn’t called Schroeder to congratulate him and Donald Rumsfeld didn’t meet with the German defense minister in Warsaw.
Is Schroeder’s use of the U.S. as boogie-man the sign of a trend in Europe? Will other center-left parties, even extreme right ones, use the […]
A bunch of historians want a debate over declaring war on Iraq. They don’t want a debate over a Congressional resolution authorizing the use of force; they want one over a declaration of war. One problem: a Congressional resolution is equivalent to a formal declaration. Earlier this year, Eugene Volokh was kind […]
I’ll add to Matt Welch’s comment on supposed U.S. anti-intellectualism by looking at the communications method he’s using. Weblogging allows many to read and comment on what “Gore Chomskytag,” hawks, doves, and anyone in between has to say. After reading many weblogs for a little bit, you can’t help but notice that many […]
If the reviewer can really write, it doesn’t matter how bad the movie is. Case in point, uber-critic, Roger Ebert on Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever:
At one point in the movie, a man who will remain nameless is injected with one of these devices by a dart gun, and it kills him. All very well, […]
Is this a joke?
Cage’s ground-breaking silent composition, 4′33,” was first performed half a century ago. The piano piece, divided into three movements, consists entirely of silent notes and takes four minutes 33 seconds to perform.
Was the Reuters reporter just having fun? You can’t call four and 1/2 minutes of silence a “piano piece” consisting […]
Charles Oliver makes a valid point on states’ rights:
But this really isn’t about the wisdom of physician-assisted suicide. (I have some doubts about it myself.) It’s about the right of states to make their own policies. Under what clause of the Constitution does Ashcroft justify his intervention into Oregon policies?
I don’t approve of doctor-assisted suicide, […]
Not only is Bob Greene a dirty old man who can’t have the decency to fulfill his marriage vow, but when his former teenage lover contacts him, he sics the FBI after her.
“FBI Says Contact by Greene Led to Inquiry” [via Media News]
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It’s bad enough the Packers almost lost to the lowly Detroit Lions–the Lions were only a finger-tip catch away from embarassing the Pack–what’s worse is two starters on defense will be out for some time. The defense wasn’t playing well even with a healthy Vonnie Holliday and Antaun Edwards. My 12-4 prediction? […]
Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) may have lost her her seat in Congress, but she hasn’t stopped telling everyone about the evil conspiracy behind the Bush administration. In her CounterPunch article (it appears to be taken from a Congressional committee speech), she claims that war with Iraq is all about oil:
However, just last Sunday, September […]
Dean Bartkiw offers this comment on the GOP:
“The GOP hasn’t done much wrong in the past 20+ years. ”
Let’s not get carried away. Consider that even this President has sold out the taxpayer in favor of the “family farmer”, and sold out the consumer, the longshoreman, the manufacturer, etc., in favor of the highest […]
Andrew Sullivan wonders about the Democrats’ young male gap. This poll shows men 18-44 support Republicans for Congress over Democrats 55% to 35%. Part of the popularity of the GOP among them is Social Security privatization. They don’t believe it will be there for them, so they might as well invest their […]
