Unqualified Offerings

At least America got a funny crypto-authoritarian movement. Next we’ll learn that the RNC sysop has been accidentally shot by Claudine Longet.

Maybe beginning a series on commercial, non-upscale dining options. Tonight’s thesis: Chipotle has its fans, but the true miracle of American fast food is the mall-based Sarku Japan. Unlike other Asian food stalls, Sarku sautees your teriyaki chicken fresh in front of you. It doesn’t sit in the warming bins, not least because there’s usually [...]

is not exactly what Jeremy Lott says, but what he says is important. Conclusion:
People who are far from the conflict don’t need much hope about Iraq. But for those who are in Iraq trying to piece Humpty Dumpty together, or for those working to support the effort, hope is absolutely vital. The soldiers have to [...]

Thanks to the awesome Annette and Stacy at Hostmatters and Neel’s pointer to Google’s webmaster tools, Google is allowed to crawl this domain again. That means that, over the next couple weeks, site search should start working for you. Presently a search on “site:www.highclearing.com iraq” brings up one result. I’m pretty sure I’ve discussed Iraq, [...]

One of the classic primers of libertarian political economy is Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson, “the lesson” being
The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but [...]

Cernig has an important analysis
of the US’s evolving Iran-related EFP claims, and their timing:
It is this chain of discoveries [of EFP factories inside Iraq] – flying in the face of the military’s original claims that Iraqis were too stupid and un-technical to build such devices without outside help – that has forced this evolution in [...]

The knowledge problem rears its head again in Baghdad, as McClatchy’s Sahar describes a raid on her house:
They look around, seeing my huge bookcase, one comments, “You read a lot Ma’am?”, “Yes, in fact I do”
“What’s this? Heinlein? Asimov? Grisham?” He turns to look at me again, this time, with a different expression in his [...]

On one level, I can sort of see what Fred Barnes is driving at in his post-Imus commentary:
“I think they make one huge mistake, and that is going to meet with Don Imus. They don’t need to meet with him. They ought to flick him off like a mosquito and move on and be proud, [...]

Steven Taylor talks about one reason the Duke rape case matters. I wouldn’t argue for a second that the young men in this case had crucial advantages of wealth and whitehood going for them that many, many wrongly accused people in this country do not have. The answer to that is not to wish that [...]

By Thoreau
Since I’m on vacation, I haven’t been doing much serious reading and hence I haven’t had much fodder for serious blogging in the past few days. Instead, I offer this fun tidbit from the Science section of The Register:
The former NASA astronaut accused of driving across the US wearing nappies in an attempt [...]