What can be said about the Mumbai attacks?
First, it’s over. At least, the actual attacks and counter-attacks are. Now there will be clean-up, both physical and emotional.
And there will be an attempt to figure out the best way to respond. Let’s just acknowledge that there is no good way to [...]
CNN is mulitple terror attacks in Mumbai, India. The coordination and use of military-style weapons, to me, indicates that this is not a simple home-grown cell that aimed at random mayhem. Consider that they reportedly targeted American and/or British citizens and the financial district of the area.
My concern here is that this could [...]
Debra Haffner isn’t so sure about the new “common ground” on abortion. I have to say, I’m not, either. She writes:
Missing from every one of these calls was a call to work to prevent unintended pregnancies in the first place through sexuality education and contraceptive services.
These leaders use the Guttmacher Institute’s research that [...]
Joe Gandelman notes that Obama’s cabinet – or at least the rumors of it – have been centrist, but not bi-partisan:
What’s so bad about that? Nothing. Democratic partisans will argue that given the state of the country and the Democrats being out of power for 8 years, it’s TIME for another party to totally take [...]
In the wake of the passage of California’s Prop 8, the news broke that Black voters had voted for the measure, which prohibited same-sex marriages, by as much as 70%. In the wake of that bit of news, there has been no end to people who would minimize the effect this had on the [...]
No, not that one. George Orwell.
I’ll let him have the microphone:
What I have most wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make political writing into an art. My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice. When I sit down to write a book, I do not [...]
The Fort Worth diocese of the Episcopal Church voted to secede from the Episcopal Church and rejoin the Anglical Communion under the Southern Cone. Now will come the legal wrangling over property and individual congregations determining if they are going to stay or go as well. This includes my mother, who is a [...]
Rasmussen reports that 73% of Americans fear the government running out of money. Look, if we were going to run out of money, then the debacle in Iraq would have done it already.
Take a look at this chart:
Understand that almost any appearance on the chart at all means that we are [...]
The campaign just won’t end. But it’s getting close.
Mark Begich now leads Ted Stevens by 814 votes. Meanwhile, in Minnesota, a canvassing board has been chosen to determine if Al Franken or Norm Coleman will win that race.
But Sarah Palin is willing to go to Washington and maverick-up the place.
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Tom Traina has a post up discussing the use of race in actuarial tables (fixed link). He writes:
While it’s pretty clear that Judge Weinstein was trying to do the right thing in this case. But that doesn’t always lead people to actually do the best thing that can be done. While trying [...]
