Yeah, I have to concede that I completely botched that one. I suppose "the Bush administration is always wrong" may not be literally true, but it's a pretty effective decision rule.
Month: October 2007
I'm heading out for the weekend to attend a wedding, and will be leaving my computer and internet behind (gasp!). So no posts from me until late Sunday or Monday..
Beezer. "Bee" was one of the three glorious critters my stepmother brought to the family when she and my father married in 1988. He was prematurely creaky and only lived.
To answer Atrios's question, the constitutional prohibition on ex post facto laws has been held to apply principally to criminal, not civil, cases. Also, the implicit purpose of the provision is to act as a constraint on the state's power to punish the individual by...
Yglesias identifies a key strategy for opposing progressive change without openly opposing the underlying goals:One has to keep in mind the broader picture here, too. The right's main tactic whenever.
Not that I don't agree with McCarver about Ramirez not hustling, and if anything I'm cheering for the Tribe in this series, but how many times can they show the.
When faced with something like this, it's critical to remember that what we call "races" and "ethnic groups" are primarily socio-political categories rather than genetic concepts. Loomis elaborates, with evidence:John Svan was a Finnish immigrant to the United States. He came to this country sometime...
The House failed to override Bush's veto of S-CHIP. Here's what Dana Perino had to say about it:The White House said President Bush was pleased with today’s result. “As it.
I'm still unconvinced.
Sonar kills whales, and Yglesias links to an interesting Hendrik Hertzberg article making the following proposal:Any real solution would have to be international, involving some serious diplomacy aimed at a new kind of arms control. The cat-and-mouse games played by submarines may have made a...
Ross Douthat tries to defend ineffective and inequitable abortion criminalization policies:Whereas we know that when abortion was legalized in America in the early 1970s, the abortion rate went up dramatically;.
Indeed. One of the nice things about working at an SEC school is that literally ever other team in the conference is worthy of my loathing and derision (with Tennessee.