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Brad DeLong, who has been chronicling World War II at his blog, notes that today is the anniversary of the sinking of the Reuben James by ...

We noted a while back the appalling facts in the case of a little girl whom the Covington County schools allowed, repeatedly, to be signed ...

In the course of checking judicial usage of the contraction "to've" (upshot: more casual than I'd thought), I found what m...

Neatly put. ... And so much for the argument from design .

Kevin Drum : From Rick Perry, after John Harwood of the New York Times notes that his tax plan will mean huge tax cuts for the rich in an e...

Brian Leiter plays the pick five books game on Nietzsche; his choices and discussion are worth a look. I haven't read Nietzsche's ...

NMC links to something I'd not seen -- Joan Didion's 1979 critique of Woody Allen . Great stuff, says I, as someone who likes Allen...

Be sure to emphasize to all the southerners that Rehnquist is a reactionary bastard, which I hope to Christ he is. -- Richard Nixon to John ...

Is a spouse's marijuana use, in and of itself, sufficient grounds for divorce? 6-3 the MSSC says "yes." , though Justice Carl...

John Foster Dulles's antagonism towards Reds didn't spill over re: reds; he was quite the wine aficionado. By the time he became Sec...

Signs point to yes.

Someone asked me yesterday why I think Herman Cain is a clown. Here's his Christmas message posted at RedState.com last year: He led wi...

The subjects on which the Master did not talk, were - extraordinary things, feats of strength, disorders of nature, and spiritual beings. --...

Sexual discrimination in America is over and done with! Robert Bork says so! How about the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment? D...

A Ring Lardner fan site provides the context to his most famous line; this is from The Young Immigrants , about the Lardners' moving to...