I confess to getting a good laugh out of the Steve Calabresi blog post Scott discussed yesterday, about how it's just fundamentally unreasonable to expect a SCOTUS justice to scrape along on nearly $300K per year in salary, without expecting that he'll accept a petit...
Author: Paul Campos
This is a grimly amusing article, in which the correspondent interviews former politicians -- Elliot Spitzer, Mark Sanford, Trent Lott -- whose careers ended because of scandals of one sort.
This op-ed from Yale law professor Samuel Moyn illustrates a big problem for American elites, which is that they know that around 40% of the electorate are flat-out delusional members.
At least 15 people were killed in the shooting at Charles University in central Prague on Thursday, according to Czech police chief Martin Vondrášek. The chief provided the updated death toll while speaking at a news conference on Thursday evening. Authorities received tips about a 24-year-old...
My sister Shakezula, J., has already taken quasi-judicial notice of Ruth Marcus's weirdly confused and confusing whinging about how Clarence Thomas in particular and federal judges in general are supposedly.
Having now read the opinion and dissents and a couple of the amicus briefs in the case, three observations: (1) From a formal legal perspective, this is a difficult case..
Michelle Goldberg's column reminds me of Orwell's observation, published on the eve of Hitler's invasion of Poland, that "we have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men [and women]." Speaking of which: Before...
Would be a shame if something happened to it: In early January 2000, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was at a five-star beach resort in Sea Island, Georgia, hundreds of.
I honestly wonder what the editors of the editorial page of our Newspaper of Record are thinking, when they publish a 2,000-word brief for a second Trump presidency, based on.
Remember when reasonable moderate non-hysterical people used to get terribly upset when other people suggested Donald Trump might actually be a fascist? Good times. Former President Donald Trump on Saturday quoted Russian President Vladimir Putin to attack President Joe Biden as a “threat to democracy” and doubled down...
Jennifer Weiner has an essay on how Oprah Winfrey's 40-year history of constant weight cycling epitomizes the destructive absurdity of diet culture: I also believe that Ms. Winfrey was part.
I'm putting this up before Mick Jagger turns 81. In an elaborate Ponzi scheme that lasted nearly two years, two British men persuaded investors to put up nearly $100 million.