Month: June 2008
Publius has a more optimistic take on last week's civil rights enforcement decisions, in which (unusually in a major case) Alito and Roberts broke with Thomas and Scalia and (with.
Via Ezra, Michael Pollan has a good example of the problems that Matt discusses here. Evidently, it would be good if subsidies to wealthy agricultural conglomerates could just be eliminated.
It may not be literally true that Larry Johnson is the biggest clown in the internets, but close enough. Or at least I believed that until he was vindicated by.
Woodrow Wilson, speaking about the recent US occupation of Vera Cruz during his commencement address at the US Naval Academy, 5 June 1914:What do you think is the most lasting.
I'm not surprised to see this. The fact that it was Robert Johnson and Lanny Davis making the public pitch made it pretty clear that Clinton was not interested in.
I'm not one for Kennedy nostalgia, but it was certainly a moment of immense historical importance. I don't think that -- even had RFK won the nomination and beaten Nixon.
As is being reported everywhere,Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley and Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne have been asked to resign. The proximate cause appears to have been.
Shorter Tom Maguire: All institutionalized racism ended immediately after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, because these changes to formal law both ended racism and erased the ongoing impacts.