Billmon on why the “Trust him! He’s the President!” approach to evaluating the constitutionality of government actions now favored by conservertarians may be suboptimal.
Month: December 2005
It is, of course, not surprising to see the bullshit-libertarian blogosphere taking a dive for Bush’s illegal searches (although some principled conservatives and actual libertarians are clear a
The South American dreadnought race of the 1910s began with the Brazilian order of Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo from British yards. Not to be outdone, Argentina and Chile soon ordered battleships of the
Ugh. I like Washburn a little bit more than most stat-heads; three of his last five years have been genuinely good, two have been mediocre. There are reasons to be concerned about his performance last year, regardless of his 3.20 ERA. He’s just really, really not the kind of pitcher you want to on the […]
This really gets to the rub: There’s only one way to scare the craven apologists in Category II: remind them of the very real possibility of a Hillary Clinton presidency in 2008 with unlimited p
AG does some nice work on the Army’s commitment to FCS, or Future Combat Systems. I remain ambivalent about FCS, much in the same way that I’m ambivalent about DD(X) and the LCS. FCS promi
I am pleased.
Note the collected Alito posts in the right sidebar, below the ads.
So the state of Georgia passed an unconstitutional law forcing people to show an ID card purchased from the state in order to vote. Lest there be any question about the intention of this legislation,
We done went and got us some notice from the Gray Lady. I have a warm fuzzy feeling all over. I wonder if they noticed that the review in question is not actually about the book in question… In fairness, it does touch on many of the same themes.
There is the bad “Hollywood’s revenue is declining because…” argument, perfected by Michael Medved. The argument is that Hollywood is going broke because actors were too active
Friday Cat Blogging… Flounder and Squeak