I’m off at a Liberty Fund colloquium on “War and Liberty,” so there won’ t be any real posts this weekend. When I return, though, expect some ruminations on the discussion here, as well as a whole slew of photos from Blogorama.

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Wednesday, I was clacking away on a project that was taking longer than I’d thought it would, and feeling vaguely guilty about it, since others were waiting on my being done. El Jefe stops by the desk to chat on his way out and notes (accurately enough) that I’d rather badly overestimated my writing speed, […]

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Sully writes: [T]he question to be asked of Saddam and al Qaeda is not do we have clear evidence of their connections; but why wouldn’t they be connected? You can look at intellgience entirely inferentially, looking through the myriads of signals and signs and hints and guesses to find hard evidence of, say, a link […]

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Glen found this sacrelicious quotation from a Vatican spokesman in an explanation of why the church doesn’t have a problem with Harry Potter: I don’t think that any of us grew up without the imaginary world of fairies, magicians, angels and witches. Ah, if only “indeed” weren’t taken. The Potter books, incidentally, became one of […]

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Yep, I know, you’re sick of hearing… but it’s this Thursday around 7pm at 18th and Kalorama NW.

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Blogger N.Z. Bear came up with the idea of having a big ol’ hawk/dove throwdown. (Err… can doves have a throwdown?) The anti-war crowd, as represented by the motley transpartisan crew over at Stand Down, and the warbloggers, as represented by, well, most of the rest of the ‘sphere, will begin by posing each other […]

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Well, as my old journalism profs used to say, this one appears to have acquired “legs.” Arthur Silber blogs an interview with Lott on the Larry Elder show, though by that account it seems like the main issue raised there was the use of the pseudonym, which on its own isn’t that big a deal, […]

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A series of coincidences related to the Columbia explosion — it happened over Palestine, Texas (doubly resonant) & one of the crew was an Israeli pilot who’d bombed Iraq’s Osirak reactor — have led folks inclined to that sort of thing to see some kind of divine message in the event. That includes conservative pro-war […]

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A few days back, I wrote about my uneasiness with the quasi-Keynesian rhetoric that’s surrounded Bush’s tax cuts. But a conversation with a friend made me realize that the tax cuts are hardly a unique case. In fact, it seems like a lot of things I’m generally in favor of are defended with some bizarre […]

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The Lott/Rosh thing got picked up by the Washington Post today; there should also be an article in the February 10 issue of U.S. News and World Report. (The piece is already posted online.) Update: Oh, the power of faith… So a few days after this story broke, I thought I’d browse over to the […]

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