Shorter Ann Althouse: People who oppose Samuel Alito’s nomination because of his remarkably consistent hostility to reproductive rights, rights against unreasonable search and seizure, worker’s rights, and civil rights must be doing so because they believe people don’t have rights.
Month: November 2005
As many people have argued, I would advocate that Alito be filibustered in the Senate. About the nature of his conservatism, there’s simply no serious debate, as I have argued here and here and
Preparing links for a new Alito link dump, I notice that this excellent New Republic cover story is behind the subscription wall, and I wanted to get some excerpts online. It’s particularly rele
USS Idaho (BB-24) was obsolete by the time she was commissioned. Designed as a smaller, cheaper alternative to the Connecticut class, Idaho and her sister Mississippi had the misfortune to be almost exact contemporaries of Dreadnought. While Dreadnought displaced 19000 tons and carried 10 12″ guns, Idaho displaced 13000 and carried 4 12″ guns. Needless […]
Oddly enough, Republican interest groups aren’t buying the spin of the GOP’s talking points and particularly egregious hacks that nothing can really be inferred from his extremely conserva
The forces of good have sufficiently smitten the forces of evil. The Ducks are now 8-1. The Huskies, shortly, will be 1-8. All is good.
Happy Guy Fawkes Day.
Wankers just don’t get much bigger than former PMRC shill and Art Garfunkel analogue Mike Love: In court papers filed this week in Los Angeles, Love accused Wilson, his cousin, of promoting the
Ezra provides a valuable service in two ways. First, he accurately summarizes the thesis of Maureen Dowd’s new book (along with her other columns on the subject): “she and her friends are
Shorter Charles Krauthammer: The rights of adult women and children are exactly comparable. Really, it’s remarkable how much more sense the GOP position on abortion makes once we get this out in the open. There seems to be some confusion among the latest set of GOP talking points about the word that comes before “burden.” […]
Kevin Drum thinks that Alito is signaling that he won’t overturn Roe. Well, I suppose this is literally true, but I think Kevin is misreading what this means for his future jurisprudence: All of
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