Looking for a model for developing post-war Afghanistan? The Cato Institute’s David Boaz, writing in The National Review, says…

“Back in Washington, his opponents have depicted Judge Charles W. Pickering as the personification of white Mississippi’s oppressive past, a man so hostile to civil rights and black progress that he is unfit for promotion to a federal appeals court. “But here on the streets of his small and largely black hometown, far from the bitterness of partisan agendas and position papers, Charles Pickering is a widely admired figure of

From on the job! RIYADH, 17 February

Writing in The Weekly Standard, Stephen Hayes

An older link, but one worth revisiting on a casual Sunday. The pleasures of fisting, as taught to Massachusetts school kids by Massachusetts Department of Education employees and originally reported on in The Massachusetts News: Fisting [forcing one’s entire hand into another person’s rectum or vagina] often gets a bad rap….[It’s] an experience of letting somebody into your body that you want to be that close and intimate with…[and] to

Our DSL line is down (again), making posting really difficult, so new entries will be sparse for a spell (in order to post this, for instance, I had to pitch handfuls of ball bearing into the aluminum cradle of my satellite dish while simultaneously rubbing two sticks together; my wife, meanwhile, stood off to the side and fanned the phone jack with a palm frond). Balloon Juice: the more I