Fifty years ago today Joseph Welch shredded Tailgunner Joe McCarthy at the Army-McCarthy hearings, asking: “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” The Army-McCarthy hearings began because Tailgunner Joe and his lapdog, Roy Cohn, were irritated that the Army had transferred Cohn’s boyfriend out of […]
Month: June 2005
Frequent commenter (and newly minted UW graduate) Kat has a new blog, Transcontatlantic Relations. Check it out.
Ezra does a nice job of demolishing Ezekiel Emanuel‘s arguments against single payer. (Well, I don’t entirely disagree with his arguments about how the veto-point laden American political
Via Norbizness, who captioned it thus: Glorious Leader Eats Johnny Cash’s Soul and Grows To 1500 Feet Tall and Then Kills a Yeti
The Times retains its capacity for tasteful understatement: On Friday, the Army is expected to announce that it met only 75 percent of its recruiting goal for May, the fourth consecutive monthly short
I can’t really add anything else, but this Poor Man takedown of the hapless Charles Bird really deserves emphasis. If there’s anything worse than people who rationalize torture, it’s
Roy Edroso points us to Field of Schemes, which seems like a great resource indeed. My favorite response in the post-mortems of the west side stadium project were Chris Russo’s argument that it’s a great idea because there are hotels midtown that there aren’t around the other New York stadia. Let’s think this through for […]
Having finally read it, I definitely think that the Supreme Court was correct to uphold the application of the Controlled Substances Act to medical marijuana in Gonzales v. Raich, which was announced
God, I wish I had known Dave Noon while I was still in grad school. Here is an excerpt from his dissertation acknowledgements: A few years back, the notion of starting (to say less of completing) this
Glenn Reynolds plays dumb: So why didn’t [Kerry] release [his military records] earlier, given that this issue was extremely damaging to his campaign, and could have been easily addressed then — when it would have made a difference — instead of now, when no one cares except political obsessives and snarky bloggers? Kos, alas, plays […]
Shorter Stefan Sharkansky: As I understand it, “Stalinism” consists of straightforward applications of clear statutes, while the rule of law presumably consists in just making up a legal s
Read it for yourself. More evidence that the activist secular liberal judiciary hates Dino Rossi and, by extension, America. In a ruling that took nearly one hour to read, Bridges said he saw no evide