New Orleans at San Fransisco: Really interesting game. While the Lions, while not bad, are essentially an inferior version of the Saints playing on their home turf, the 49ers are an outstanding defensive team, with great special teams. And we all know that the Saints...
Author: Scott Lemieux
It does seem worth noting that his stump speech is pretty much all lies. But since he said them, one can hardly expect a transcriber journalist to question them. Now,.
This is the kind of thing I'm referring to when I say that it's absurd to deny that Romney is a mortal lock, whether he narrowly wins or loses South.
As was expected, the Supreme Court declined to create a heightened standard for judges to use in evaluating the admissibility of eyewitness testimony, despite the overwhelming evidence that it is much less reliable than commonly assumed. The opinion, written by Ginsburg, argued that judges only...
After reading this, I can't resist a quote from Brian Kellow's excellent Pauline Kael bio. It's particularly entertaining if chased with Simon's witless-old-fart rambling about how there hasn't been a.
Always nice for someone to let you know right away that their analysis isn't going to be worth your time: While Romney is not yet a prohibitive favorite... Sure. Lamar!.
This account of the Moroccan government's attempts to past modest reforms of the country's bad abortion laws provides yet another lesson in how abortion laws are even worse in practice than in theory: Morocco is one of the more liberal Muslim countries and allows the...
Truth and real journalism have a liberal bias. The role of reporters should be to quote Republican politicians and print Republican blast faxes verbatim. [via Elias. Image by B.J. Keefe.]
Even leaving aside the aesthetic Stalinism, any top-10 list of post-1960 movies that makes room for Zulu, Chariots of Fire, and The Pursuit of Happyness is a massive, massive drown.
I think some of the ways in which a generic Democratic president differs from a Republican are well-known to informed observers, if they tend to drop out of discussions of the topic. A Democrat will put better people on the NLRB, for example. The composition...
Clarence Thomas's 2011 opinion for a bare majority of the Court shielding the New Orleans DA from liability for its systematic violation of civil liberties (which in some cases led.
What Linda Greenhouse says: Progressives who are frustrated by President Obama’s failure to close the prison at Guantánamo, or who are seething over the administration’s surrender to the religious right.