The NY Times: The important question was never really about whether Saddam Hussein was guilty of crimes against humanity. The public record is bulging with the lengthy litany of his vile and unforgivable atrocities: genocidal assaults against the Kurds; aggressive wars against Iran and Kuwait; use of internationally banned weapons like nerve gas; systematic torture …
Archives for December 2006
Don’t Worry About The Polar Bears
Hilzoy among many others has a touching piece on the recent decision to reclassify the polar bear Ursa maritimus as endangered. The reasons are fairly obvious. Polar bears have adapted to hunt marine mammals which depend on stable holes on the contiguous sheet of pack ice which once covered the Arctic Ocean in winter. In …
KMBA Watch
Congress edition. Republicans see the ability to force tough votes — which they avoided in the majority by stifling Democratic alternatives — as having two potential benefits: It can put vulnerable Democrats on record with positions that might not be popular at home, or it can fracture the untested Democratic majority. Mr. Blunt noted that …
I Read The Powerline So You Don’t Have To
Today they are in a tiff because Ford had opinions on the Iraq War: Ford told Woodward not to publish his views until after his death, but apparently said once he died they could be published at any time. It’s easy to understand the first part of the decision — why would Ford, at his …
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Little Miss Sunshine
On a scale of one to ten, I give Little Miss Sunshine an Eleventy-Three. I laughed the entire movie, and am still convinced that Alan Arkin makes every movie better with his presence. Discuss.
Sick of the Mouthpieces
I really am sick of the noisemakers in the GOP. It is why, while my positions on most issues have not changed over the past few years, my allegiance to the Republican Party is all but over. Perfect example- this Power Line post mocking John Kerry: On his visit to Iraq, Senator Kerry apparently got …
RIP, Gerald Ford
A good man, by all accounts: Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr., 93, who became the 38th president of the United States as a result of some of the most extraordinary events in U.S. history and sought to restore the nation’s confidence in the basic institutions of government, has died. His wife, Betty, reported the death in …