A federal judge has struck down Virginia's ban on same-sex marriage. Her holding is that because marriage is a fundamental right, the ban must be subject to strict scrutiny, which it fails: Tradition is revered in the Commonwealth, and often rightly so. However, tradition alone...
Author: Scott Lemieux
In Paul's thread from yesterday, a commenter expresses a sentiment that I've encountered way too often among American liberals: I didn’t realize Thomas could actually speak. I thought Scalia just.
I assume current Comcast customers will have some thoughts about my new monopolistic overlords? UPDATE: the case against.
Tom Perkins edition.
Tanner Colby has a strange Slate piece arguing that affirmative action doesn't work. In fairness, he's not exactly saying that it doesn't work -- "millions of people do well under.
Yes, wingnuts are still making the "how can there be global warming if there's snow today nyuk nyuk nyuk" arguments: If you needed proof that God has a wicked sense.
Sargent's analysis is exactly right: So House Republican leaders are bowing to the inevitable and are going to allow a vote on a clean debt limit hike. In a statement moments ago, Nancy Pelosi said she’d provide Democratic votes to help it pass, which seems...
A handy guide to the second-greatest sport at the winter Olympics.
I have a piece noting that the "it's not that I'm a bigot, but I have to respect the desires of other bigots" argument has 1)always been used to justify.
Shorter Verbatim James Taranto: "If two drunk drivers are in a collision, one doesn't determine fault on the basis of demographic details such as each driver's sex. But when two drunken college students "collide," the male one is almost always presumed to be at fault....
Let's leave aside the fact that Woody Allen is accused (whether justly or unjustly) of sexually assaulting a child in real life whereas Humbert Humbert is a character in a.
A report from the field.