I generally agree with Mark Tushnet that Robert Jackson's much-cited and lauded concurrence in Youngstown is overrated, in the sense that it effectively describes the puzzles of evaluating the constitutionality of presidential action without providing any useful way of resolving the most interesting and important...
Month: August 2008
Steve M. has a nice catch on the cavernously stupid notion that Barack Obama might not have enough body fat -- acquired from gobbling seals and rummaging the ice pack.
Mr. Trend talks a bit about the resumption of the Brazilian (civilian) nuclear power program:The power plant was originally decreed in the 1970s as part of the military dictatorship's demonstration.
Cernig:The head of the Missile Defense Agency, General Trey Obering, has previously justified the massive expense and foreign policy jeopardy of placing land-based anti-missile facilities in Eastern Europe on the basis that ship-based defense using the tried-and-tested AEGIS system would be prohibatively expensive - 40...
For most of the reasons cited by Dylan Mathews, I wouldn't be happy if Obama chose Tim Kaine as his running mate. Still, I can least imagine an argument on.
Because looking around the major news sites on the intertubes it's rather amazing how relatively little attention this story is getting.And not to go all Truther or anything but that.
This is exactly right. Both the 4-year gap between elections and recent realignments mean that it's easy to come up with arguments of the "No Democrat has won the White House without states x, y and z in decades!" variety, but virtually none of them...