Four of Bush's more incompetent and wingnutty choices for the federal courts look dead. In general, the Senate Dems should study how Republicans obstructed Clinton's choices in the last years of is term and do likewise.
Month: November 2006
Since a couple of people have asked, I should probably say a little more than my flip response to Pithlord's hope (and, at one time, prediction) that the federal "partial.
Lindsay won't be happy, but apparently Feingold isn't running for President. I'm a little ambivalent, because I like Feingold a lot. But in light of the election it makes sense..
Japan withdrew from the London Naval Treaty in 1936. The chief Japanese negotiator, Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto, feared that concessions on the part of his negotiating team would lead directly to assassination upon return to Japan. Japanese nationalists believed that the Washington Naval Treaty system was...
In addition to being Corduroy Appreciation Day, November 11 marks the anniversary of the armistice that brought World War I -- one of the most irredeemable conflicts in human history.
Shorter Ann Althouse: Democrats must start answering the following question: "When will you stop being traitors?" As Glenn points out, what's particularly funny about this is that Althouse, Reynolds, Peretz.
Ah, it's been a while. Mickey:Just a reminder: Rep. Henry Waxman, the aggressive incoming liberal chair of the House Government Reform committee--who is chiding his Republican predecessors for not investigating (in AP's words) "the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, the controversy over the leak of...
Lung cancer -- one of the few subjects Sid Davis never addressed in his nearly 200 youth "warning films" -- felled him at the age of 90. His films were.
Henry. My wife's greatest wish is that Henry dies in his sleep sometime soon. Since we added another hungry mouth to the household, the boy has taken to spraying the.
As a follow-up to this post, I missed it because I still read the Times the old-fashioned way but the death of the legislation required to inscribe discrimination into the Massachusetts constitution is apparently not merely hypothetical. Somehow, I'm sure this will fail to come...
Look, when it comes to party-establishment v. netroots I'm squarely in the "it's not a zero-sum game" camp. I even think that Harold Ford is probably a pretty good option.
Ah, finally some sensitivity to Palestinian sentiment;"If it was up to me, I would send the gay community, who insisted on celebrating in Jerusalem, to Sodom and Gomorrah," said Eli.