Jesse Walker busts out with an insightful post on media consolidation and spectrum reform.

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Andrew Sullivan has a puzzling line today about “those too embarrassed to admit that they were wrong about the war on terror, wrong about the war in Afghanistan, wrong about the war against Saddam.” Now, I never had a problem with the “war on terror” in principle, and I was basically OK with the Afghanistan […]

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Antle has written a thoughtful response to the post on the conservative/libertarian coalition below. There’s little to disagree with there—in part because I seem to have misread him in places the last time around—though I did note the following: Is the tension between libertarians and conservative really worse than it was during the height of […]

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I’m having a running debate with some lefty friends at Jakeneck on the 2001 crisis in Argentina.

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TAPped points to a WaPo column citing a conversation between Tom DeLay and steakhouse manager Tom Khandker, who delay was attempting to bully into letting him smoke in the restaurant: Khandker: “I’m sorry, sir, but this is a federal building, and it’s against the law of the federal government.” DeLay: “I am the federal government.” […]

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A Miami Herald column suggests that Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez should be awarded the Milton Friedman Prize for advancing liberty and free-markets. The rationale? No other head of state has done so much in such a short time to wreck his country’s economy, and to discourage his neighbors from engaging in the kind of finger-waving populism […]

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A piece on Enter Stage Right looks at the increasing uneasyness of the conservative/libertarian coalition that passes for “the right” in America. He notes that things are being shaken up as the hot-button issues of the day change. I’ve written a bit on this myself, and predicted some coalitional juggling as military adventurism, biotechnology, and […]

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Brooke reports on Texas lawmakers who’ve gone AWOL in order to prevent a quorum and stall passage of a redistricting plan that would hand new seats to Republicans. Clearly, this is a clash of titans in the realm of sleazy political maneuvering.

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I was a little surprised to see that the new On Nozick from the Wadsworth Philosophers Series includes a reference to my 2001 interview. I’ve only skimmed it so far, but first reaction: it’s not as awful on face as the A.V. Lacey survey from Princeton’s series, and it looks like an excellent introduction to […]

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Atrios thinks that folks who are connecting the Blair bruhaha to affirmative action must be bigots. Ditto CalPundit. I don’t know. Folks point out that nobody raised the issue of race where various other recent fabulists and plagiarists were concerned, and that’s true enough. But that’s because race wasn’t already an issue in those other […]

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