David Thompson has further thoughts on Andrew Anthony’s (apparently compelling) new book on his journey away from “guilty leftism”, spurred this time by John Lloyd’s review in the Observer.

 In “The Big Picture(s),” I noted that the establishment media in Iraq tended to rely on dubious reports from various sources, including within the Iraqi police. This weekend, the establishment media brings bad news from Iraqi governmental sources — shocka! — but how reliable is it? The L.A. Times reports: Bombings, sectarian slayings and other violence related to the war killed at least 1,773 Iraqi civilians in August, the second month

Dr. Ric is up to it again, making outrageous statements about how Jeff and I are trying to coolify the deep homophobia and racism that lurks in our dark, dark souls. He’s on especially about our opposition to legislating gay marriage en banc. Well, Jeff, I felt, was rather at pains to point out that if the issue of marriage between people of the same sex were agreed to in

And so it goes.

Halloween comes early to the Corn belt. And sure, given this week’s Polk County court ruling, there’s likely a really fine gay marriage joke in here somewhere, but were I to go there — however tongue in cheek — I fear Andrew Sullivan would show up at my door in his Levi’s E series, his face screwed up in high dudgeon, with the express intent to harangue me. Mercilessly. Which,

Nuance: When anybody you elect tries to end the war, Bush blocks all intentions with a veto or threats of a veto that prevent it. And his Supreme Court is ready to validate whatever he does, this court with its five Catholic justices, and a chief who falls on his face a couple of times that we know of. Ah, the passion of the liberal journalist! Sure, Breslin has been

Yesterday’s post on an Iowa court’s ruling in favor of same-sex marriage (using, as its basis, a prohibition on discrimination based on sex/gender — and directly ignoring, it would seem, the on-point Baker v Nelson 409 U.S. 810 (1972)) has created quite an interesting and heated debate. Even libertarians (or those leaning libertarian on many occasions) are split on what constitutes legitimate state interest, and some very compelling arguments have

If a restaurant won’t let me substitute a side of fries or a baked potato or even some cole slaw for a dainty little dish of fruit salad, I just get up and walk the hell right out. No offense to fruit salads, understand. But that’s just the way I roll.

But I hates teh dirty copses, too. You may recall that just before Karl’s stellar performance, I was on stage linking the arresting officer in Senator Craig’s case to the sad spectacle outlined here.  Having listened to the recording of the arrest, I am even more convinced that this cop is a lying jackass.  That doesn’t mean that Craig is innocent.  It just means that we have, I think, to