Shorter Duncan Hunter:聽 I believe that the 14th Amendment should be ignored while we're on the process of trying to "overrule" it by statute. I wonder which Republican member of Congress will be the first one to call for a constitutional amendment reinstating Dred Scott...
Month: April 2010
Following five days in Chicago "working" at my day job, and then a couple days on the Oregon coast celebrating my birthday with my fianc茅e, it's time to get back.
David at It's Not a Lecture has some interesting thoughts on iPhone apps and activism: Tech-savvy and issue-conscious consumers will be getting information not only about how a given product.
If I understand the theory advanced by anti-SSM wingers in the Washington state petition case, it's the same one put forward by that great constitutional scholar Sarah Palin: i.e. that the First Amendment should be understood as insulating speakers from all criticism and all consequences....
Young Boy Scouts of America can now earn awards for sitting indoors and playing video games. That's right, the Cub Scouts--the junior 8 to 11 ages subset of the Boy.
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Were that this was true: Add Mike Huckabee to the list of Republicans criticizing the Arizona law. As I keep saying, Huckabee is dangerous; he鈥檚 very conservative and not very well educated, but he鈥檚 smart and sane and has a conscience. Unlike Sarah Palin, he...
Well, unlike me, Olivier called it. I'm certainly not saying that Ovechkin should be beyond criticism in the wake of his team blowing a 3-1 lead to a significantly superior.
Just a day after it was released earlier this week, the unnervingly violent anti-genocide music video, "Born Free," was reportedly deleted by YouTube. Actually, as Wired has confirmed, it was.
One place where you're particularly likely to see "but would he/she be fun to have a beer with?" standards applied is Supreme Court nomination hearings and the surrounding discourse. You may remember, for example, that Sam Alito's baseball-watching and nice family were not only supposed...
From the Electronic Frontier Foundation: Facebook Privacy Policy circa 2005: No personal information that you submit to Thefacebook will be available to any user of the Web Site who does.
One of my colleagues at Patterson threw this together for a presentation to his Economic Statecraft class: GDP per capita, PPP (constant 2005 international $) 1990 2008 Percent change, 1990-2008.