Professor Althouse approvingly links to some winger interviewing Kathleen Willey, who asks people to look at what Hillary Clinton "has done to me." Needless to say, Althouse omits the fact that one of the things that Willey believes Clinton to have done to her is...
Month: November 2007
I have just arrived in not-as-cold-as-it-might-be Canada for a wedding; I will not be absent over the next week but blogging will be more sporadic. Fortunately, bean has seamlessly fit.
Next November 14 will be the 100th anniversary of "Tailgunner" Joe McCarthy's birth. On that day, we can surely look forward to a stream of nonsense regarding McCarthy's record, as.
PTJ has some additional thoughts, and Dan Drezner weighs in here.To respond in some detail, I'm deeply uncomfortable with the wall that PTJ wants to erect between scholarship and policy. It's true enough that studying baseball isn't playing baseball, but it seems absurd to me...
MoDo's title today? "Should Hillary Pretend to Be a Flight Attendant?"Why did I even read on?But I did. And I learned that smart women and women who do not cleave.
According to an FBI investigation, most of the September 16 Blackwater killings were unjustified:Federal agents investigating the Sept. 16 episode in which Blackwater security personnel shot and killed 17 Iraqi.
Brad Plumer has the goods on what the Republican-majority NLRB has been up to and what's coming out with its term set to expire.Meanwhile, Kung-Fu Monkey takes on some of the more specious arguments aimed against the striking writers.
Idaho Republicans try to use public policy not only to trap women in marriages they want out of but to encourage them to stay at home where they belong. Which.
Fred "Gramps" Phelps, patriarch of "The Most Hated Family in America," turns 78 today. Best known for his work with Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church -- a clown ministry consisting almost.
As a number of bloggers have noted, the U.S. Sentencing Commission will be hearing testimony today about whether their new guidelines reducing the gross and arbitrary disparity between sentences for crack and powdered cocaine should be applied retroactively. Sentencing Law and Policy points to this...
No troll feeding, please. Comment threads are one of the very best features of the blogosphere. The point of trolling is to ruin a comment thread; people cease to say.
In yesterday's NY Times Giving section (yes, a whole section devoted to charitable giving and public service organizations), the paper published an article about a San Francisco organization that should.