Appropriately enough, the Mariners stick King Felix with the first of what is sure to be many no-decisions in a battle of deep, talented offenses. (A lot of critiques of Billy Beane are silly. What is a fair critique is that the three best position...
Month: March 2012
I love Rand Paul. He's like his father, but with even fewer principles. This Paul speech about oil companies on the Senate floor is classic: Instead of punishing them, you.
Some thoughts about day 2. The key to Kennedy's vote, evidently, is whether he can be convinced that there's a limiting principle. Kennedy, unlike the other conservatives, does seem to.
Sometimes nightmares do come true!
Jesse Zwick at TNR engages in some policing of the left side of the political discourse: What is surprising, however, are the number of decidedly non-crazy American experts and journalists who.
As I wrote recent my piece on tipped labor, I did a little historical research on tipping. For the sake of length, I had to cut the history out of.
Sarah Jaffe has an important piece up at Alternet exploring the realities of public sector workers in the Second Gilded Age: Beil told a story of guards at a women's correctional facility, who get sent along with inmates when they have to go to the...
Building off Tim Wise, I have to wonder if the next frontier in racist white backlash against Trayvon Martin will be to accuse him of threatening a white woman, placing.
Much more later about today's argument, but I'd like to address this particular slippery slope hypothetical from Scalia, responding to the government's argument about the necessity of the mandate to.
Good. The point that "This case is about the limits of the government's ability to delegate to a religious institution the right to use taxpayer money to impose its beliefs on others (who may or may not share them)" is particularly crucial.
Since I was skeptical about whether the Court was seriously considering using a jurisdictional ruling to dodge the constitutional issue ex ante, the oral arguments yesterday certainly did nothing to.
For reasons I can't understand, every week or so some number of leftier-than-thou commenters who apparently have very romantic picture of American political history quote me as saying that Obama.