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You can't make this up : TUPELO - Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant said Monday that "Satan wins" if voters reject Initiative 26 that def...

The Supreme Court today heard this term's misconduct-by-Orleans-Parish-prosecutors case. You know you're having a bad day when you...

In a 2-1 op for the D.C. Court of Appeals. Via . Haven't had time to read it yet, though it appears the dissenter would've held th...

A young man, whatever his genius may be, is no judge of such a writer as Thucydides. I had no high opinion of him ten years ago. I have now ...

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A self-proclaimed SEAL insider challenges that New Yorker article about the death of bin Laden. Chuck Pfarrer rejects almost all of that s...

Looks very interesting indeed. ( Via .) Apparently, the thesis is that Russian turned into a general European war what the Germans and Au...

"A Truly Dark Roast." Love it. More here .

Reports are that Houston Nutt will be given his walking papers after Ole Miss's humiliating loss to what is now demonstrably the second...

It's a water">mystery only Madison Avenue can solve. Or create, rather. (And don't miss the link at the bottom: "Wom...

Corey Robin is the definitely not-conservative author of The Reactionary Mind . (We linked to an essay of Robin's.) Daniel Larison ...

Ezra Klein has a critical review of Suskind's Confidence Men that examines the mistakes Obama's White House didn't make, and t...

Being unfamiliar with the program(me) Yes, Minister , I had not seen the Five Standard Excuses used by the civil service: 1 The Anthony Blu...

It is not for nothing that I have been a philologist, perhaps I am a philologist still, that is to say, a teacher of slow reading ....For ph...

Kevin Drum explains the problems with Greece, the EU, and the Euro in Q-&-A format suitable for forwarding to one's friends and rel...