While I generally (if tentatively) agree with Ezra and the Moose that overturning Roe would be bad for the Republican Party at the national level (although, for reasons I've previously discussed, I think more states would ban abortion than is commonly assumed), I respectfully disagree with some of...
Month: November 2004
Bill, we hardly knew ya. . . William Safire, whose political commentary column has appeared on the Op-Ed Page of The New York Times for more than 30 years, is.
(warning: long boring post. read at your own risk) It's time we came up with a nice catchy name for the tireless army of people who'll fight tooth and nail.
Oh, dear. Prominent Chinese American author Iris Chang, whose international bestseller "The Rape of Nanking" resurrected the long-ignored atrocities by the Japanese military on Chinese civilians during World War II, died Nov. 9 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in her car along a rural road south...
Kos writes: No one person more tarnished his legacy the last four years than Colin Powell. His integrity resigned in the runup to Bush's War. Nice to see the rest.
Via the Washington Post: Agency officials have criticized the four former Capitol Hill staffers Goss brought with him for their inexperience. Goss' first choice for executive director — the agency's.
I'm not sure if Kenneth Baer is one of the people, specifically, that Atrios is talking about, but his article certainly exemplifies the central issue Atrios and Josh Marshall have identified. Now, John Kerry was not an ideal candidate, and I have no objection to criticism of...
Ever wonder what it's like to run for the Senate as a Democrat in Oklahoma? According to Brad Carson, there's a downside. For one thing, you get invited to Churches to.
Southern reactionaries have suddenly decided they're not so keen on the Madisonian institutional rules that have historically served their interests so well. Can't they make up their minds about what.
Uggabugga suggests a new seal for the DOJ.
While conceding that Christopher Hitchens's latest unintentionally risible strawman-burning is not one of his finest efforts (myself, I can't tell the difference), Michael Totten defends his central thesis, arguing that "[t]he American.
As Laura Rozen and Mark Goldberg point out, it looks as if the foreign policy hawks are starting to turn their attention back to China. This shouldn't be surprising, for a whole.