Monthly Archives: September 2012

Yesterday, in talking about the drone war, I linked to this story in Esquire for the proposition that Anwar Al-Awlaki’s son, Abdulrahman, was killed in the strike that killed Awlaki himself. That’s not correct. I blame the error on sleepiness … Continue reading →

I’m happy that President Obama seems to be gaining in what was (and still could be) a tight race. I feel confident that he’ll continue to do a good job in many areas, and I think Mitt Romney is not … Continue reading →

Just a friendly reminder that a closed system in which young people can’t express themselves or turn to outside help is always going to be a petri dish for abuse. (If you want to be cynical, you could also see … Continue reading →

Matt Yglesias says, despite what we all think, we’re actually winning the war on poverty: [T]he way the government measures poverty actually by definition excludes the possibility that public programs are lifting families out of poverty. The truth, when examined … Continue reading →

My Facebook feed has, in various ways, been blowing up with conversation about the anti-Islam video “Innocence of Muslims” and its fallout overseas. An interesting jumping-off point is this Wall Street Journal article by Bret Stephens, which a Mormon friend … Continue reading →

Check out this terrific photo-essay at The Atlantic — “50 States in 50 Photos”:

Via Fred Clark, a nice post from Doctor Science at Obsidian Wings, wondering at the turn a particular strain of neoconservativism has taken in recent years: Kremer and D’Souza seem to have forgotten one of the first rules of storytelling, … Continue reading →

So I guess this was a thing briefly: Kansas was for a short time, seriously considering not putting Barack Obama on the ballot because a citizen had complained that Barack Obama was not a citizen. The guy has withdrawn his … Continue reading →

Two quick things, both of which tend to show that, despite having taken a whole semester on the subject, I don’t know that much about constitutional law yet. First, in my Gun Control/Gun Rights seminar, we recently read this law … Continue reading →

While we’re all briefly on the subject of the attacks in Cairo and Benghazi, it’s worth attempting, once more, to put to rest the bigoted meme that Muslims never condemn acts of Islamist terrorism. The Atlantic has a nice photo-essay … Continue reading →