By Aug 11,2008

Torture or not torture?

It’s a fun guessing game, figuring out exactly what constitutes torture these days. I’m actually relatively sympathetic to John Schwenkler’s point that you don’t need to make prisoners uncomfortable when...

By Aug 11,2008

Best Post of the Day

It’s Dan McCarthy by a mile, name checking Jello Biafra, Dead Kennedys, Telos, and George Will in a twisted appreciation of once — and Future? — Governor Jerry Brown. In...

By Aug 10,2008

August Surprise?

If you had told me at the start of summer that Georgia would be a bigger wedge issue in this election than Iraq, I would have given you some spare...

By Aug 10,2008

Mandatory Fun

Mysteriously, The Plank, and all of The New Republic, seems to be completely mute on an issue which I would’ve expected to hear a lot about from them — the...

By Aug 09,2008

Take That, Cheney

McCain couldn’t keep the veep away from the convention. But he can follow up Cheney’s speech to the assembled masses with the gong-ringing spectacle of Joe Lieberman, Vice Presidential nominee...