A commenter on the recent thread about Kennedy says probably not: I see no reason why anyone would assume that Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kafan would be votes to affirm. Nothing in their records suggests it, as far as I can see. As for Ginsburg...
Month: August 2010
Sarah Palin's fascinating theory that the First Amendment should exempt her from criticism gains another adherent in odious busybody Laura Schlessinger: Well, I'm here to say that my contract is.
That's right. I'm traveling again, this time to beautiful Bloomington, Indiana to study network analysis methods with the InterUniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research. More on what I'm learning.
The fourth season of Mad Men has been maligned in some corners because it "merely" continues to be superb. Such are the burdens of high expectations. The final scenes of the most recent episode, "The Rejected," demonstrate that the series deserves those expectations by living...
Reasonable, moderate, thinking man's birther Tom Maguire comes out against an Islamic cultural center desecrating sacred Burlington Coat Factory ground. None of his arguments are good, of course, but this.
Huh: Lou Gehrig, a heroic slugger for the Yankees baseball team, was famed for brushing aside repeated fractures and batting after nearly being knocked unconscious, before giving his name to.
My favorite detail about the Shot Heard Round the World is that after the game Thomson rode the subway home (apparently major league ballplayers in New York in the 1950s routinely rode the subway to and from games).
As one of our commenters noted at the time, one reason to be outraged by Spitzer's actions is that he ended up sticking us with this mope. And unlike Reid,.
Apparently, if you want your son to be political commentator with any brains or insight, granting that it's only an N of 2 I'm going to go ahead and say.
Dahlia Lithwick's does a very good job here of analyzing the question of how Kennedy might vote on same-sex marriage, with her choice of commentary to link to being particularly astute and commendable. With my skepticism now on the record to a larger audience, I...
Harry Reid. What a disgrace, and if he thinks this will actually help Democrats in tough races this fall he's delusional.
This little vignette is interesting for a number of reasons. First, it's almost certainly false (among the many quite incredible details my favorite is the writer's claim that he had.