While discussing the overly restrictive Rules of Engagement in Afghanistan yesterday as part of his defense of General McChrystal, Rush Limbaugh himself inflicted some collateral damage on the historical record and the reputation of the American military.
In declaring that civilian casualties were “the point” in Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Dresden, Limbaugh bought the line promulgated by [...]

Pixar has accomplished with its Toy Story series what eluded the filmmakers of Superman, Star Wars, and even The Godfather.  A third film that not only lives up to its predecessors, it adds to the reputation of the original rather than tarnishing it.  (Think about it, I bet Raiders of the Lost Ark would appear [...]

No matter how much–or how little– you already know about the details of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. by James Earl Ray, you will be spellbound by Hampton Sides’ superb new book, Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin.
Hampton focuses on stortytelling here, [...]

Michael Fletcher murdered his wife and unborn child
We have been engaging in a sometimes good, oftentimes merely semantic, (aka typically libertarian) debate on abortion on this site for several days.  The trigger was David Swindle’s slightly improved take on the old saw, “If abortion is murder, why don’t you want to prosecute it like murder?”
As [...]