I guess the lesson is that the Bruins should avoid 3-0 leads of all kinds...
Month: May 2010
Via Linkmeister, it appears that the Republican senator from my state is worried that small oil producers who can't shoulder the risk will be deterred from imperiling offshore marine environment..
I've been having a conversation with the very sharp Silvana Naguib. Particularly since my general position on this is on the record, and I think the analysis applies to anybody.
Shorter Erick Erickson: If, like me, you're not sufficiently literate to distinguish between normative and empirical arguments, than Elena Kagan is a total socialist!!!!!!! Because everybody pretty much believes everything they believed is an undergraduate!!!!!!!! I'm not even sure what the point is -- I...
Everyone needs to read Glenn Greenwald's analysis of the shift from denying basic human rights to non-US terror suspects under Bush/Cheney, to denying such rights to American citizens under Obama/Biden..
A couple questions/retorts to the post below are worthy of response. First, from Erik: What I find really interesting about this data is that every one of Truman’s selections to.
I think this data, which I discuss here, needs to be much more widely circulated: And I think this data -- because it can't fully account for shifts in the center of gravity in the Court -- actually understates the...
I think Matt has exactly the right reaction to this Douthat op-ed : what Douthat prevents as a "tradeoff" is just a strong case that providing women access to abortion.
When I started blogging about the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, I expected the effect to be what most of you did: that Obama would withdraw the.
As Glenn Greenwald points out, skepticism about the Kagan appointment issuing from anyone left of Miguel Estrada (who by the way thinks Kagan is a terrific pick) has been met with the sort of response engendered by essentially tribal loyalties. "Our" team's captain has made...
I'm sitting in Plymouth, UK in the Americano Coffee House. The theme appears to be an English interpretation of a upscale American coffee house. There's a picture of Che Guevara.
I have a piece up at TAP that sums up my position on the Kagan pick. What I see as the core of the argument: But it must also be.