More evidence about Alito's obvious desire to overturn or gut Roe, and more importantly further evidence (granting that this shouldn't be necessary) that vague, banal claims about stare decisis at his confirmation hearings will mean less than nothing.
Month: December 2005
Shorter John Sexton: We don't want graduate student teaching at NYU to exploitative like it is at those public universities. In order to make sure this state of affairs comes.
Shorter InstaWife: Movies like Fahrenheit 9/11 are just simple, boring propaganda nobody wants to see, which is why the releasing studio took such a bath, earning only $222 million on.
Good and bad news for Hugo Chavez:Venezuela (Reuters) - Parties allied to Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez won 89 percent of votes counted in a preliminary tally of nearly 80 percent of the ballots for the National Assembly, electoral authorities said on Sunday.The National Electoral Council...
Elton Beard says a lot of what I was going to say about Garance Franke-Ruta's recent article about women who get multiple abortions. But there's a particular type of argument.
I suppose pointing this out at this late date is as futile as complaining when people misuse "begging the question," but apparently Roger Simon's deployment of concepts he doesn't understand.
Adam Cohen makes short work of Faux News' campaign for Christmas.This year's Christmas "defenders" are not just tolerating commercialization - they're insisting on it. They are also rewriting Christmas history on another key point: non-Christians' objection to having the holiday forced on them.The campaign's leaders...
I finally remembered to take the much-discussed Garance Franke-Ruta article about repeat abortions to the gym yesterday, so I'll have more about that later today. But as a preview, interested.
Recall that in the early 1910s Canada considered contributing three Queen Elizabeth class battleships that would be owned and crewed by Canadians but serve in the Royal Navy. Winston Churchill's.
...from Emily Bazelon:What should matter more to the senators who will soon decide whether Alito will sit on the Supreme Court is that his record as an appeals court judge shows that his views have not changed since Garner. In case after case, Alito has...
Particularly given that I bought the really good scallops at Whole Paycheck it's rather more expensive than my budget can really justify for home cookin', but that is some tasty.
Shakes Sis and Media Girl have excellent posts about a very disturbing case. I don't know enough about the evidence to speak definitively about the decision of the prosecution not.