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Blogging, Red Meat, and Reasoned Debate

· Tuesday, April 18, 2006 · 10 comments

Outspoken Retired Generals and Civilian Control, Redux

· Monday, April 17, 2006 · 12 comments

Alphabetical Tyranny

· Friday, April 14, 2006 · No comments

Guest Worker Bill Has Mexicans Lining Up

· Thursday, April 13, 2006 · 4 comments

Iran War Posturing

· Tuesday, April 11, 2006 · 7 comments

Administration Gearing Up for Regime Change in Iran?

· Saturday, April 8, 2006 · 9 comments

Can Presidents Leak Classified Information?

· Friday, April 7, 2006 · 11 comments

Two Deadlines, Two Bad Premises

· Wednesday, April 5, 2006 · 19 comments

Reading the Other Side

· Tuesday, March 28, 2006 · 2 comments

Most blog readers, like talk radio listeners, gravitate to those sites where the host’s views mirror their own. This actually encourages over-the-top language, villification of the other side, and shoddy reasoning. Echo chambers tend not to reward nuance.

Attacking Ben Domenech II

· Friday, March 24, 2006 · 20 comments

Bush Doubles Down on Iraq

· Wednesday, March 22, 2006 · 5 comments

Right of Confrontation in Sex Cases

· Tuesday, March 21, 2006 · 7 comments

Balancing the Federal Budget: What to Cut?

· Tuesday, March 21, 2006 · 10 comments

U.S. Launches Biggest Air Operation Since Invasion End

· Thursday, March 16, 2006 · 24 comments

Futility of the Liberal Blogosphere?

· Friday, March 10, 2006 · 1 comment

Titles and Academe

· Wednesday, March 1, 2006 · 7 comments

Dubai Company, White House Had Secret Deal

· Thursday, February 23, 2006 · 3 comments

Sunday Talk Shows: Conservative Bias?

· Tuesday, February 14, 2006 · 18 comments

John Boehner Elected Majority Leader

· Thursday, February 2, 2006 · 5 comments

News Flash: Army Promotion Rates Skyrocket During Wars

· Monday, January 30, 2006 · 6 comments

Ezra Klein Takes the Boeing*

· Wednesday, January 25, 2006 · No comments

Administration Defends NSA Spying, Further Confuses Issue

· Tuesday, January 24, 2006 · 18 comments

Washington Post Blog Shuts Off Comments

· Friday, January 20, 2006 · 10 comments

Nuclear Campaign Finance Reform Option

· Wednesday, January 18, 2006 · 1 comment

PC Movies

· Sunday, January 15, 2006 · 4 comments

AP: Alito Appears Headed for Confirmation

· Thursday, January 12, 2006 · No comments

What is Settled Law?

· Wednesday, January 11, 2006 · 24 comments

Alito Winning Early Rounds

· Wednesday, January 11, 2006 · 11 comments

The Confirmation Equivalent of the 5th Amendment

· Monday, January 9, 2006 · 11 comments

Ed Gillespie Joins George Allen’s Team

· Friday, January 6, 2006 · 3 comments

NSA Spying Scandal: What If?

· Friday, January 6, 2006 · 5 comments

Abramoff Scandal Backfiring of Republican Strategy?

· Wednesday, January 4, 2006 · 4 comments

Op-Ed Ghost Writing and Journalistic Ethics

· Friday, December 23, 2005 · 1 comment

The Kos-ification of the Democrats

· Friday, December 23, 2005 · 8 comments

Our Domestic Intelligence Crisis

· Wednesday, December 21, 2005 · 23 comments

What is a Wartime President?

· Wednesday, December 21, 2005 · 17 comments

Timing of the NSA Surveillance Story

· Tuesday, December 20, 2005 · 12 comments

The Rockefeller Letter on NSA Spying

· Tuesday, December 20, 2005 · 12 comments

Boot Camp as Torture

· Wednesday, December 14, 2005 · 16 comments

Cory Maye, Tookie Williams and the Death Penalty

· Tuesday, December 13, 2005 · 1 comment

Secret Laws

· Monday, December 12, 2005 · 2 comments

Torture May Have Provided False Qaeda-Iraq Link Intel

· Friday, December 9, 2005 · 24 comments

DC Sex Scandal About To Break?

· Tuesday, December 6, 2005 · No comments

The Iraq War and the American Public

· Tuesday, December 6, 2005 · 29 comments

Oregon Teen Sentenced for False Rape Charge

· Sunday, December 4, 2005 · 28 comments

President Bush and His Generals

· Thursday, December 1, 2005 · 1 comment

TSA to Allow Sharp Objects on Airplanes

· Wednesday, November 30, 2005 · 14 comments

Is the Internet Destroying our Minds?

· Monday, November 28, 2005 · 7 comments

Economics 101 and Immigration

· Sunday, November 27, 2005 · 25 comments

John Murtha Calls for Iraq Pullout

· Thursday, November 17, 2005 · 55 comments

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