Sandy Hook edition. I suppose it's not shocking that people who can convince themselves about non-existent federal conspiracies to eliminate gun ownership would take things to the next step.
Author: Scott Lemieux
Via Paul's other place, I was fascinated to read this discussion thread, in which a law professor at Santa Clara entered what remained a largely substantive discussion and was thoroughly.
The Sphinx has spoken: Justice Clarence Thomas broke his nearly seven-year silence at Supreme Court oral arguments Monday. But no one is sure exactly what he said. Thomas seemed to.
I have a piece up at the Prospect about the Brennan nomination: I do not mean to suggest that the nomination of Brennan means that there are no differences between the Bush and Obama administration on civil liberties. Obama did ban torture and extraordinary rendition...
Teresa Nielsen Hayden does typically invaluable work by noting the public officials responsible for the abusive prosecution of Aaron Swartz: U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz Special Agent in Charge Steven.
In the wildcard thread, in the course of explaining why you can't build a winning NFL team around a running game, I reiterated in passing that the Browns were idiots.
I don't mean to intrude on Paul's beat, but in case he's too shell-shocked by yesterday's Broncos game to comment immediately, I thought it was worth noting that the very richly compensated John O'Brien and the particularly egregious con he's running law school he heads...
Uhm, Byron, there's a big difference between purely symbolic votes against raising the debt ceiling and making a serious threat to destroy the credit of the United States to extract.
For some quick meaningless predictions, I'll take Denver -9 despite some misgivings over the extreme weakness of their second-half schedule. (I should also say that in terms of the Broncos.
R.I.P. More on the federal prosecution brought against him here and here . The fact that the federal government isn't willing to prosecute torturers but will prosecute you for making obscure academic articles authors generally weren't directly compensated for available says a lot, none of...
Ah, the always impressive intellectual rigor of Fred Hiatt.
As a follow-up to Erik's post, I think this is an important point: And so, when figures like Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson are invited on to programs like Meet.