I have to give Newt this one: Citizens United was indeed an arrogant misreading of the American people. My takeaway from the debate segment on the courts is that every Republican candidate except Paul was cryogenically frozen in 1968, recently woke up, and have never...
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William F. Buckley and Huey Newton, together at last! [via Corey Robin]
This exhaustive explanation of why Jeff Bagwell -- an obvious Hall of Famer on the merits -- wasn't even named on half the ballots last time does indeed contain every.
The good news is that Obama was able to use his veto threat to make the entrenchment of arbitrary executive detention in the National Defense Authorization Act somewhat less bad. The bad news is that because of this he won't veto what is still a...
Great speech by Holder -- at the LBJ library, appropriately enough.
The (now award-winning) journalist Sara Ganim, who has been doing fantastic work on the Penn State sex ed scandal, has an interesting story about the reliability of Mike McQueary's grand.
Christ: Today’s episode takes place at the University of Vermont, where a puzzling and revolting survey was recently distributed to the brothers of Sigma Phi Epsilon. We were sent a copy of the questionnaire, which mostly consists of benign questions like name, birthday, major, amount...
Among their other problems disproportionately burden women who are poor and/or racial minorities. The Obama administration's unprecedented recent overruling of its medical professionals on Plan B is certainly no exception.
And it's far from clear to what's going to happen. Thomas, ordinarily the staunchest states' "rights" justice, is different in preemption. And elite Republicans don't have monolithic views on immigration.
I blogged a couple weeks ago about the case of Juan Rivera, who Illinois prosecutors kept sending back to jail based although his confession was coerced and the forensic evidence pointed to another perpetrator. I can't say that justice has been served -- too late...
The bad news is that the pardoned man is dead. Dead despite the fact that the guilty man tried repeatedly to confess: Perry made those remarks during an extraordinary ceremony.
Given the candidates their party is putting forward, I can't blame Republican elites for thinking that the huge number of debates was a mistake. Even if the candidates were more.