Revisiting a lively debate from over the weekend.

Everything the critics say about the decision is right–and so is the decision.

Stephen Green is marking the tenth anniversary of his blog Vodkapundit by linking to the first post he wrote back in the Stone Age of the Blogosphere. I can’t remember when I first started reading blogs on a regular basis, but Vodkapundit, along with OTB, was among the first that I started reading regularly. So [...]

Today is my eldest daughter Katie’s 3rd birthday.

OTB is available on Google Currents.

Thanks to all the kind sentiments on the passing of my wife, Kim. The outpouring from all corners has been gratifying. Alas, it has also put a tremendous strain on the server load for the first time since moving to the current configuration. Ed is working on some technical fixes to mitigate the problem. As [...]

A progressive columnist has been outed as having sympathies for the Democratic Party.

Asked (vai Moneyville):  Is blogging a ticket to easy money? Answered:  no. Next question.

My latest for The Atlantic: “For Europe, Some Fear a Conflict Between Union and Democracy”

Rush Limbaugh, who three years ago said Mitt Romney embodied all three legs of the conservative stool today declared that Romney is not a conservative. He was right both times.

OTB’s secret plot revealed.

My latest for The Atlantic, “Romney’s Realist Foreign Policy Is a Lot Like Obama’s,” has been posted.

My latest for The Atlantic, “The Thorniest Question: When Can a President Order an American Killed?” has been posted.

NATO is still seen as essential by 62 percent of both EU and U.S. respondents, demonstrating that the transatlantic military bond is still, despite a rough decade, firmly entrenched in American and European views of the world.

Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall confirms that his site has been down since 5 pm owing to a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack.

The rapid spread of information on Twitter is challenging POLITICO’s business model.

  As Glenn Reynolds notes this morning, in my post about Rick Perry from earlier this week, I was incorrect in lumping him in with those who have called for a repeal of the 17th Amendment. Here’s what he actually said in the paper that I linked: It’s even enough to get some people calling [...]

Some recent glitches caused by a security upgrade have been fixed. Most notably, the Like/Dislike buttons on comments should now be working. Let me know if there are other issues.

My first piece for CNN has been posted at Fareed Zakaria’s Global Public Square.

My latest for The National Interest is posted under the somewhat misleading headline “NATO Fails in Libya.”

The Atlantic has published an essay I wrote yesterday morning titled “Libya After Qaddafi: Lessons from Iraq 2003.”

University of Colorado law professor Paul Campos, author of Jurismania: The Madness of American Law (1998), turns out to be the author of a previously anonymous blog called “Inside the Law School Scam.” Shockingly, it took less than two weeks for other law professors to guess the author. Oddly, Campos is disheartened that, rather than critiquing [...]

It pays to read a scientific study before commenting on it.

Does a family court have the authority to tell a parent to delete a blog critical of his ex-wife?

Sometime in the last week, OTB crossed the 60 million unique visitor mark, as measured by SiteMeter. As always, thanks to all who read, comment, and link. Previous milestones: 50 Million – October 13, 2010 40 Million – December 21, 2009 35 Million – June 17, 2009 30 Million – October 14, 2008 29 Million – [...]

One blogger at the lefty Firedoglake utters the unthinkable: No, I’m not ready to crown Barack Obama the Worst President Ever just yet, but consider this: Yes, George W. Bush wrecked our economy, destroyed New Orleans, turned a budget surplus into massive deficits, ignored warnings of a major terrorist attack and used that mistake to [...]

As some have already noticed, we installed some new commenting plug-ins late yesterday adding some features that many have been requesting

Some of you have presumably noticed the addition of social media buttons, notably the Facebook “Like” button and a Twitter “retweet” button, to the posts some time back. Over the last couple of days, however, I’ve started having trouble with the “Like” button on random posts. On most posts, it works as it’s supposed to: [...]

Our second girl, Elizabeth Webb Joyner,was delivered at 8:35 pm Eastern Tuesday evening.

Foreign Policy‘s annual Twitterati 100 list of “who’s who of the foreign-policy Twitterverse in 2011.” I’ve made the list again under the “Washington Wonks” category. WASHINGTON WONKS Spencer Ackerman (@attackerman) — National security correspondent for Wired‘s Danger Room; tweets on everything from Afghanistan policy to comic books to punk rock. Joe Cirincione (@Cirincione) — President of [...]

A Federal Judge in Nevada has issued a devastating ruling against Righthaven, the company that has sued hundreds of bloggers for alleged infringement of material from newspapers such as the Las Vegas Review-Journal: A federal judge in Las Vegas today issued a potentially devastating ruling against copyright enforcer Righthaven LLC, finding it doesn’t have standing [...]

My latest piece for The Atlantic, “Is the U.S.-European Relationship Really in Decline?” is posted.

Our patience with those who repeatedly hijack the discussion thread to detract from the topic at hand has ended, effective immediately.

Duncan Black, aka Atrios: I think I spent 6 year finding various ways to say “Bush sucks. wars suck.” Now I spend my days finding various ways to say “Do something about the economy. Also, too, wars suck.” Maybe there should be more pictures of kittens or something. Consider this an open thread.

Steve Clemons is taking his talents to The Atlantic

In a decision released yesterday. the New Jersey Supreme Court clarified the journalist/blogger distinction somewhat.

The real story of Paul Revere’s ride has little to do with Sarah Palin’s odd tale, no matter what her defenders say.

Sure, there’s a lot of crap out there. But it’s easier to find good information and engage with experts than ever.

A profile of George Mason economist and blogger Tyler Cowen offers this amusing description: “Cowen, 49, has round features, a hesitant posture, and an unconcerned haircut.”

Foreign Policy’s David Kenner has a reading list for President Obama to help him get read for his big speech to recast our relationship with the Arab world. Topping the Persian Gulf section is Crossroads Arabia, by our own John Burgess.

Apparently, Blogger has been down for almost a full day (see this story at the Blogger Buzz blog). It reminded me of the early days of blogging when James Joyner started OTB in January of 2003 and I started PoliBlog in February.  We both started on blogspot blogs and the tendency of the service to [...]

The Week has names John Sides and The Monkey Cage as the Blogger of the Year.  A deserving award. John comments here. This year’s nominees are here.

Why the United States has found itself in a seemingly endless series of wars over the past two decades.

Ok, so it has come to the attention of the powers that be that one of OTB’s regular authors is out of conformity with the others. To wit, we have OTB founder, James Joyner: Steven Taylor: Alex Knapp: Yes, a bit brooding, but bearded. And yet, what about Doug Mataconis?  Did he not get the [...]

Click on the link for the Trig Palin post that caused so much controversy yesterday, and you now see this: Of course, nothing is ever really deleted on the Internet and the damage is done, but I suppose this is the end of it

The needlessly mean-spirited blog post about Trig Palin’s birthday that Dodd Harris wrote about yesterday, has had a rather quick and immediate impact over at Wonkette: At least nine advertisers have announced plans to pull their ads from Wonkette after the political blog ran a post making fun of Sarah Palin’s son, Trig. Wonkette’s Jack [...]

Pardon me while I indulge in a little self-promotion. I’ve penned my first real long-form essay up at my Forbes blog , weaving in and out of a few themes to develop what I think is the potential for a real creative explosion in science in the future by harnessing automation and computers. I thought [...]

A version of a piece I wrote Wednesday, titled “NATO’s Death Greatly Exaggerated,” has finally been published at Foreign Policy under the title “Back in the Saddle: How Libya Helped NATO Get Its Groove Back.”

A Huffington Post contributor who had no expectation of being paid for his contributions is suing HuffPo for $105 million.