Can you imagine what it must be like to write for Congressional Quarterly these days? Sam Rosenfeld over at Tapped passes along another note about the absurd and contemptuous manner in which the Grand Old Party conducts their business. Essentially,…
OK, and let me begin by saying that I am no scholar or historian, and that I have only the vaguest ideas of the details of international politics at the end of the eighteenth century. If any Gentle Reader really…
A few months ago, Your Humble Blogger repeated the intention to examine The Declaration of Independence, and there was some interest from Gentle Readers, so perhaps we should look at it together over the next couple of weeks. Before we…
Well, and once again Your Humble Blogger has failed to be awarded the Ig Nobel prize for literature, or anything else for that matter. I am glad that they recognized the works of the Nigerian fantasists, who speak to something…
Gentle Readers, you have probably seen this quoted elsewhere this week, but I would be remiss in my blogduties if I did not pass along Federalist 76, on The Appointing Power of the Executive. “It has been observed,” says Publius,…
Well, and it’s State of the Blog time again. Since the last time I totted up the notes, I had the big move in July (17 notes) and August (26 notes), and then bounced up a bit higher than normal…
Apropos of nothing at all, if a President of the United States had committed crimes, possibly impeachable crimes, possibly not impeachable, and was perhaps under grand jury investigation, and had siphoned off the nation’s treasure into the pockets of cronies,…
What the hell is the matter with people? I’m all in favor of a World Government (it can’t be much worse than World Anarchy), but Bill Gates in the starting XI? Richard Branson? And I yield to no-one in my…
Now, Gentle Reader, would be an excellent time for you to use the mouse, or the keyboard, or whatever other device you have for controlling your browser, and move lightly on to some other site, perhaps one of the ones…
Pretty nearly every single time Mark Schmitt posts something either to The Decembrist or to his TPM Café table, I get the urge to post about it. Or, rather, to just post the link and encourage Gentle Readers to read…