On yesterday's decision by the Supreme Court to open the door to state-endorsed religion: I think the dissenters are right that Greece goes beyond what Marsh permitted. And I also admire Kagan's articulation of why a robust interpretation of the Establishment Clause is so important. The First Amendment is a...
As I mentioned in the comments on the Stacey Campfield post where he compared Obamacare to the Holocaust, I lived in east Tennessee in the late 90s when he was.
The obvious reason we should build the Keystone XL Pipeline is that the inevitable spills will stimulate the economy since we have to clean them up. Kinder Morgan wants to.
On May 6, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued Executive Order 7034 creating the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Passed and funded by Congress in the Emergency Relief Appropriations Act of 1935, the WPA became among the two most important federal jobs programs of the New Deal...
Mr. Fredrik deBoer wishes to register a complaint about our commentariat. Well, he does have one serious complaint: if anyone who comments here attempted to intimidate deBoer by emailing him.
Shorter Verbatim Sen. Stacey Campfield (R-Tenn): "Democrats bragging about the number of mandatory sign ups for Obamacare is like Germans bragging about the number of manditory sign ups for "train.
Or at least so thinks our racially sensitive friends at FOX. One sad Asian is as good as the next it seems. At least according to Fox News. In the clip below about the tragic sinking of the Sewol ferry in South Korea, from a few...
This, from Christopher Clarke's Sleepwalkers, is an interesting passage: Mobilization schedules, political dissension, the progress of the Sarajevo police enquiry, the need to secure German support – these were excellent.
See Adrianna McIntyre and Jon Cohn. You might think that enacting similar reforms, only with an additional huge expansion of Medicaid, would count as the most important legislative victory for.
What seems like an appalling decision to prosecute has, unfortunately, resulted in a guilty verdict. More here.
(1) Whatever happened to Burger Chef? (This 1970 commercial looks a bit Don Draperish): (2) Is Margaret/Marigold going to end up at Yasgur's farm? (3) Why does Lane's Mets pennant.
Kathleen Geier has a terrific account of the strengths and weaknesses of the late economist.