failings

Hugh Hewitt: The Wounded Warriors

Politico's Mike Allen has a story on the GAO report detailing the failings in the system for the treatment and rehabilitation of America's wounded warriors.This is intolerable, and there is no excuse...

Monday Morning Rockpile: Oh my incredible!

The words for describing how improbable the sweep in San Diego was escape me. So many out of the ordinary events occurred to allow us to win yesterday and over the course of the series that you...

Why I Think Christianity Is Ridiculous, Part 2

In my first blog of this series I explained why I think the concept of Jesus dying for our sins is a ridiculous one. In this blog I will discuss what I see as the failings of the concept of God’s...

NHS Wastes (Another) £46bn

Predictable headline of the day, from the London Times: "Man who helped NHS to £46bn says it wasted the money and needs more." The money poured into the NHS has failed to produce...

Movie Minesweeper - The Cardboard Cut-Out Head Edition

- Paul Morrison is to direct the young Dali-Bunuel-Lorca biopic Ashes. - Tony Gilroy has rewritten Matthew Carnahan's State of Play screenplay. The film is set to reunite Edward Norton with Brad...

An Introduction to Financial Archaeology

Despite past financial failings, I’ve always had at least one good habit: I save every receipt, bill, statement, invoice, and memo that I receive. For nearly fifteen years I’ve used the...

In Da Club: Why Is Everybody So Rude About Establishment Tool, Asks Other Establisment Tool

Yesterday on the Politico website, Andrew Glass posed a query about Washington Post columnist David Broder, who is known as "the dean of the Washington press corps" because his early columns about...

Emancipation Day II

September 4, 2007, the date of the publication of the Walt and Mearsheimer book, will eventually be known to Americans as Emancipation Day II, the day Americans began the long process of shedding the...

Bremer Refuses To Be Thrown under The Bus

To help his sagging poll numbers, George Bush has recently gone on the offensive, a "domestic surge" if you will. As part of this new strategy, he's tried to lay some of the blame on the Iraq...

Petraeus gets a hand from the media

Yesterday, Kevin Drum explained that independent of Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus has run a masterful, methodical p.r. campaign that effectively "outplayed" Democrats and other opponents of the...