By • Jul 30,2009

Why would you want that?

I have to say, I don’t understand this complaint. After a WaPo reporter explains why the WaPo and other media outlets have written about the Birther nonsense while largely ignoring...

By • Jul 29,2009

Islam, Immigration, and Europe

Andrew’s post on the bombing of the Outgames in Denmark made me think of Christopher Caldwell’s excellent new book “Reflections on the Revolution in Europe.” Chris’s basic thesis is that...

By • Jul 28,2009

The Cocktail Renaissance

I have been remiss in failing to mention my friend and former colleague Robert Messenger’s excellent, longish piece on the rebirth of that classic American concoction, the cocktail. As with...

By • Jul 28,2009

No, you don’t deserve it

Ezra Klein, Washington Post econo/health-blogger and omniscient child pundit, writes the following: [Bill Kristol] says that the Army health-care system — which is fully socialized — is the best health-care...