The latest straw being grasped at by those who seek to defend the legality of the illegal will be one of the most pathetic moves in the wingnut playbook: “Bill Clinton did it too!” This seems barely worth taking the time to refute, but two quick points: Any non-hack will note, first of all, that […]
Year: 2005
I had no idea this study has had such a long life in the blogosphere. The Continental Op, after following up on my post yesterday, read the paper (Prof. Groseclose has posted it on his website, so we
A commenter asked me what I thought about Orin Kerr’s analysis of the legality of Bush’s wiretaps. Kerr is a serious scholar, and I think his argument deserves a fair hearing; I also belie
The attempt by the Dover School Board to force their biology teachers to teach religion rather than science has been ruled unconstitutional. It’s always nice to see that there are Republican conservatives for whom the law still matters. …more from PZ.
Don’t believe me about whether FISA authorizes warrantless wiretaps? Well, you may want to ask our famously libertarian attorney general what he thinks: “Now, in terms of legal authorities
Kieran offers a taxonomy of bullshit-libertarian justifications for arbitrary executive power. The take on InstaCrocodileTears is particularly priceless: “Oh, puh-leeze. This is nothing new. It&
I had been wondering about this. In particular, I wanted to get a look at the aircraft carriers currently in the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility in Bremerton. Sadly, the pictures of NISMF are at extremely low resolution, which is mildly odd given that I doubt Al Qaeda, China, Iran, or Russia could learn all […]
jedmunds at Pandagon comments on some of the apparent oddities in the UCLA study on Media Bias that has been embraced by, amongst others, our friend Jeff Goldstein. This deserves a longer post and a m
Two more excellent posts by Glenn Greenwald on the Bush’s Administration’s illegal searches. First, he finds Hugh Hewitt citing United States v. United States District Court (1972) on beha
I’m a big fan of the newly controversial Ang Lee. Although I don’t think it’s terribly well-regarded, I think The Ice Storm is a great movie. (I actually think I underrated it here; having screened them again recently, I would rank it ahead of Short Cuts and maybe Fargo.) Crouching Tiger you know about–and getting […]
Matt Bai. The problem with bad analogies and meaningless catchphrases is that they can conceal the fact–apparently even from the author–that the underlying arguments are just utterly illog
Shakes notes the latest emerging talking point, which will be to say that the Democrats approved of Bush’s illegal searches, so nobody can complain. Like Shakes, I’m pretty dubious about t