Today, the Senate will vote on legislation to federally enforce excreable parental notification laws. (HT: Prof. B.) This would offer a worthy companion to its ludicrously arbitrary partial-birth abortion law. Why, this is almost enough to make me think that trying to hide substantive opposition to reproductive freedom behind “states’ rights” rhetoric is transparently disingenuous, […]
Month: July 2006
It’s obviously good news that the Voting Rights Act will be renewed. But it’s also worth remembering that civil rights legislation is only as good as the willingness of the executive branc
Which wins? You guessed it. The Bush administration and Congress have slashed millions of dollars of military aid to African nations in recent years, moves that Pentagon officials and senior military
Heh. Chuckle.
I’ll be web chatting at the Lexington Herald-Leader tomorrow from 1-2pm. Israel-Hizbollah Conflict is the topic.
“Behind all the glamour and idealism of the Kennedy administration, Nick Bryant would have us see something else in “The Bystander”: the calculating, often quite cynical, political m
It’s things like this that make it hard for me to be sympathetic to Chavez apologists: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez hailed the man dubbed “Europe’s last dictator” Monday as he started an international tour by visiting the authoritarian leader of the isolated former Soviet nation of Belarus. “Here, I’ve got a new friend and together […]
Unsurprisingly, there are some psychological obstacles to a “tit-for-tat” strategy: In a study conducted by William Swann and colleagues at the University of Texas, pairs of volunteers pla
Matthew asks: But none of this changes the fact that it is Hezbullah that retains an armed “state within a state” in defiance of UN resolutions and the Taif Accords, that it was Hezbullah
Yglesias, Fontana Labs, and Farrell have already dealt with this reprehensible Alan Dershowitz column, which goes entirely off the moral rails with its claim that “[t]he Israeli army has given well-publicized notice to civilians to leave those areas of southern Lebanon that have been turned into war zones. Those who voluntarily remain behind have become […]
Part IPart IIPart III Part IV Part VPart VI TCG Yavuz resumed her duty as the flagship of the Turkish Navy in 1930. Much had changed since she was last operational, however. The German Empire had vani
Unwittingly: WALLACE: But isn’t that the result of what’s happened in Iraq? KRISTOL: No, it’s a result of our deducing from the situation in Iraq that we can’t stand up to Iran. I mean, when w