Some people simply astound me with their ability to be good soldiers, to the detriment of logic, facts, and even the superiors they're vigorously trying to serve ( Read more... )

Because he tends to be as conspiracy-minded and paranoid as Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol, though rarely as fact-indifferent. But this harsh take is pretty priceless.

Gen. Krulak raises objections straight out of Sun Tzu, and they are as applicable to soldiers today as they were 2500 years ago ( Read more... )

For example, Lou Dobbs.

Because, having taken quite a fair number of volts myself, I can hook up electrodes with the best of 'em.

But it could be.

which has Counselor Lithwick so stymied is not "magical thinking" or some grand leap of specious logic, but simple old-school Hamiltonian neo-royalism. The privileges of rank, they assert ("they" in this case being Justices Scalia, Alito, and Chief Justice Roberts) should be genuine, and should apply only to those who currently hold that rank and ( Read more... )

I can see why Slate (and MSNBC) hired Prof. Lithwick to write for them.

She makes a good case for actual impeachments, and actual trials, then pardons, which is what I think should happen as well. Naturally, then, I think her article is brilliant and insightful. You know, in a strictly objective sense.

Shucks, she even links to Bill Buckley ( Read more... )

I don't remember all the Enlightenment philosophy, sophistry, and outright bullshit that I've read. I freely admit that, right up-front. But here's my Extremely Short and Possibly Oversimplified Test for Government Legitimacy ( Read more... )

Balkin and Levinson on partisanship on the Court and why Roe is still around. Good reading.