...it's Mukasey, the former chief judge of the Southern District of New York and partner at Patterson Belknap someone and someone. He most recently made waves with an August Wall Street Journal op-ed in which he (much boiled down here) said that US courts were...
Month: September 2007
In case any more evidence were necessary, here's yet another example of why the Supreme Court's decisions banning school admission plans that consider race were just plain wrong.UPDATE [BY SL]:.
Matt points us to this remarkable panel at a think tank often described as "liberal." Not only does it seem to define Joe Biden as the leftmost acceptable opinion on.
...the last moments of the last episode of Angel? Now we know.
Much of the blogosphere is astir with discussion of the Israeli strike into Syria. Initial speculation suggested that the attack targeted a Syrian weapons shipment to Hezbollah. According to this.
Jack Balkin on Michael Drake's feeble defense of his decision to fire Erwin Chemerinsky for transparently political reasons:Nothing Drake says sheds much light on why it would be reasonable for.
Shorter Treason-in-Defense-of Slavery Yankee, 29 August 2007:Although I am still firmly committed to the war in Iraq -- no matter how expensive or fruitless the effort may be -- I have no trouble insisting that New Orleans should not be rebuilt, because that would be...
I knew I should have left for the grocery store 30 seconds ago. . . . update [from d]: On a somewhat similar note, I knew I should have drowned.
I came across this while doing some actual work. Here's a jaw-softening moment from April 2003:Mr. Brokaw. Can you imagine being FDR and running World War II all those years--Truman,.
Seriously, how many times can they pull the football away from David Broder before he figures out the scam? (The answer, of course, is "an infinite number.") However, from this day forward 90 days shall be known as a "Graham Unit."
The Hashemite dynasty traces its lineage to the prophet Muhammed's grandfather, and in particular to Muhammed's daughter Fatima. The Hashemite played a prominent role in early Islamic politics, and from.
I saw Charles Ferguson's documentary "No End in Sight" last night. Here's a clip: The film, unlike many other documentaries that have been made about Iraq, focuses not on the.