Unqualified Offerings

Yesterday’s official blog kerfuffle was Orin Kerr’s complaint about Kieran Healy’s politically-minded Memorial Day item on Crooked Timber, which led to a half-hearted “Do it to Julia!” directed back at this very site. (All. Together. Now! We kid! Because! We love!)
Seems to me that Kerr and Kieran’s other critics are missing a major point of [...]

After George Galloway’s Senate testimony I challenged his opponents to impeach him on the facts if they could. Clinton W. Taylor and George Gooding have done at least a partial job of just that, using the Internet Wayback Machine to examine archived versions of Galloway’s Mariam Appeal website. My own limited experience with the [...]

President Bush calls Amnesty International’s report on our deliberate, systemic employment of torture, direct or outsourced, against prisoners either in our various bolt holes or the dungeons of cooperative tyrannies “absurd.” Vice-President Cheney avers that he is “offended” by the report. The Washington Post and two million warbloggers think the biggest scandal is that Amnesty [...]

Mark Felt. This is one of those required blogging topics, right? Well I just blogged about it.
Admit it, though: we were all hoping for somebody more famous.
UPDATE: Okay, who should it have been? I think the coolest would have been Pat Buchanan. That would have made people’s heads freaking spin.

Much talk today about the Human Events list of the “Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries.” Let me state right off the bat that I don’t think the concept of “harmful book” is inherently ridiculous. Someone, whether William Dean Howells or Mayor Jimmy Walker, once said that “No young girl was [...]

Extraordinarily useful primer by Emily Bazelon, Phillip Carter, and Dahlia Lithwick in Slate. Also, a comprehensive, measured J’Accuse at QandO. See also, and also.