Shorter Shelby Steele: Because she is a Latina, Sonia Sotomayor is ipso facto unqualified to be nominated to the Supreme Court. Her extremely impressive formal qualifications are beside the point; by definition, only white men and maybe reactionary African-American men can be qualified for the...
Month: June 2009
The comments to my Anarchy in the UK post on Thursday spawned an interesting discussion surrounding the cause of polarized politics in the CA state legislature. While I agree the.
Via Mr. Trend, we read of this morbid collection of stories about people killed in baseball-related injuries. Trend is right to wonder why the article fails to mention Ray Chapman.
Although I regret this particular manifestation highly, it's obviously not surprising that Ed Whelan is a reprehensible, thin-skinned bully. (Who apparently can't use a search engine.) Or as Cole says:For.
Shorter Erin Manning: The superflous amendments tacked onto same-sex marriage legislation to preempt the silly arguments of paranoid cranks prove that the arguments made by paranoid cranks were correct.[Via.]
I'm not sure which of Sarah Palin's five colleges actually instructed her in the "principles" of Economics 101, but I'd think that someone who reads so many newspapers would at.
Despite some attempt to cover himself with some concessions about how all 9 justices are "activists" (although note that his mash notes to Alito routinely referred to him as a.
Between travel and parental visits, I neglected to mention New Hampshire's legalization of same-sex marriage. So you probably already know about it. The key takeaway for the future is that the latest pro-discrimination strategy of making spurious arguments about religious discrimination is that it's checkers...
Is Daniel Murphy the poor man's Dave Madagan, or David Segui without the defense and steroids? Either way, can the Mets really pretend that the guy can be a regular.
In general, I am a supporter of direct democracy. I have experienced both the good and the bad directly, and of course it has the potential to be just plain.