I have some initial thoughts about Jeffrey Toobin's Citizens United piece. The key takeaway for me is that Roberts's procedural shenanigans (which don't terribly offend me in themselves) are consistent with the key substantive problems with the opinion. My somewhat idiosyncratic take on Citizens United...
Month: May 2012
On May 16, 1934, a mere week after longshoremen in San Francisco walked off the job and roiled the west coast, truckers in Minneapolis went on strike in an action.
There's been way too many great musicians dying lately. I'm sick of writing these posts.
Ah, Virginia Republicans, the party that decided after George Allen proved his racism beyond all doubt that they'd like him to run again. Now, they refuse to confirm judges based on their sexual orientation: Shortly after 1 o’clock this morning, the Virginia House of Delegates...
I remain baffled by the number of people who are convinced that the superficially moderate Romney who was governor of Massachuetts is the "real" one who's just pretending to be.
Nobody could have predicted! And the center not only did not hold, it couldn’t seem to get any attention whatsoever. Americans Elect, a lavishly funded “centrist” group that was supposed.
I had a request in comments to discuss how new historical findings have complicated the traditional story about FDR's Court-packing plan and the "Switch in Time That Saved Nine." Since.
Scott has already noted that one causal factor in the spiraling amount of student loan debt cataloged in the current NYT series on the subject has been the eagerness of.
On the connection between aircraft carriers and national prestige...
So today I am attending a game at Fenway for the first time, as I will again watch my Mariners lose on the road. Whenever I see Seattle play on.
Glad to see the Chicago Sun-Times is giving noted moron Jenny McCarthy a forum to spread her anti-vaccination idiocy.