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MOVIN' 12 Jan 2007 | 04:06 pm
__________Well, I have some good news and bad news (or vice-versa, depending on your perspective I suppose). The bad news is that I’m closing up shop here at Legal Fiction. The good news is that I’ve ...
THE SPEECH 12 Jan 2007 | 03:40 am
_________I'm busy at work, but here are some very quick thoughts on the speech.First, I agree with Kevin Drum that there's nothing new here. We have, after all, been clear-and-holding, training Iraqis...
VANITY-INDUCED BONFIRES 11 Jan 2007 | 05:23 am
__________I'll have more to say about the "surge" and the constitutionality of Kennedy's bill, etc., later. But for now, I just want to draw everyone's attention to these passages in today's Post, whi...
LEDEEN TO TROOPS: "Stop Being Lazy" 10 Jan 2007 | 05:59 am
__________You know, the audacity of this line is suprising even considering it's coming from Michael "N'er Right" Ledeen ("The Surge and Its Critics"):[Another] excellent recommendation is to dramatic...
MORE JOURNALISTIC EXCELLENCE FROM PAJAMAS MEDIA 9 Jan 2007 | 05:58 pm
__________As I hope everyone knows, Memeorandum is a blog aggregator (and an excellent one). The way it works is that it displays a prominent story or blog post and then lists all the blogs that are l...
IRAN AND THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER 8 Jan 2007 | 06:01 pm
__________As expected, the Israel-Iran post stirred up some strong objections in the comments. So let me try to spell out my views on Iran policy in a little more detail and with a little less snark.L...
HOW TO START AN ARMS RACE 7 Jan 2007 | 05:52 pm
__________Hmm, I've been out of pocket for a couple of days, but this Times of London story seems potentially, um, newsworthy:Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment faci...
DISCO BILL 5 Jan 2007 | 09:02 am
__________Via LGM, I see that the Rehnquist files have been opened and it appears that the Chief enjoyed the 70s. Here's an excerpt from the Legal Times (quote slightly amended):The late Chief Justice...
SOMETIMES THE BEAR BLOG GETS YOU 4 Jan 2007 | 06:59 pm
__________I started two posts tonight, both of which I disagreed with by the end (one was virtually complete). Thats how de bloggin goes sometimes.So instead, I'll just direct you to Eric Martin's exc...
"RECORD" REVENUES 4 Jan 2007 | 10:23 am
__________I just read the Decider’s op-ed today in the WSJ, and this sentence in particular caught my eye:It is also a fact that our tax cuts have fueled robust economic growth and record revenues.Not...