Andrew Jackson, in a message to the Senate, 6 May 1830, three weeks prior to the passage of the Indian Removal Act. It is certainly desirous . . . that some agreement should be concluded with the Indians by which an object so important as their removal beyond the territorial limits of the States may […]
Month: May 2008
The predictions part of my diavlog was lost, but I think I predicted Clinton +10 in Indiana, Obama +7 in NC. Overs? Unders?
Like Josh Patashnik, I’m puzzled by Anna Quindlen’s claim that the judiciary is the most powerful branch of the federal government. Patashnik notes the relatively narrow scope of the recen
Diavlogged with Michael Goldfarb yesterday, but gremlins got into the process somewhere, and only about twelve minutes survived. Here’s a bit from the remnant:
Via Phil Carter and Eli Lake, Paul Wolfowitz on the mistakes of the occupation: “One was enough troops for the major combat. A lot of people said we didn’t have it, and obviously we did. T
Ugh. I guess MoDo’s Pulizter is the better analogy…
The more things change, the more they stay the same. The New York Times reported today on two new reports (one from the Sentencing Project and one from Human Rights Watch) that confirm what any study of prison demographics could tell you: the war on drugs is still being waged only on some people and […]
Herbert Hoover, in a message addressed to the National Conference of Parents and Teachers, 5 May 1929: The state is all of us. Some of us have no home, some have known no school, some are outside the
In light of the passing of Mildred Loving, it’s useful to return to standard set out by Antonin Scalia to apply the equal protection clause in cases that don’t involve installing a politic
Mildred Loving, who (along with her husband) successfully challenged Virginia’s anti-miscegenation law in 1967, has died. Loving’s case was a landmark for civil rights, but she never intended to be a boundary-breaker: Surrounded as I am now by wonderful children and grandchildren, not a day goes by that I don’t think of Richard [NB: Richard […]
Ronaldo picked up tranvestite hookers? Mr. Trend seems to think there are more important stories to talk about in Brazil. I’m unconvinced.
Back in 2005 I sat on a panel at the University of Kentucky library on the future of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. At one point the conversation became heated, with an interlocutor from the audien