What Eric said. The fact that John McCain is older than nachos and chocolate chip cookies is a lot less relevant than the fact that he’d be rubbish as president. Vaclav Havel, for instance — also born in 1936 — would make a fine substitute for John McCain. As would Jim Henson, were he still […]
Month: June 2008
Publius has a more optimistic take on last week’s civil rights enforcement decisions, in which (unusually in a major case) Alito and Roberts broke with Thomas and Scalia and (with Kennedy) joine
Via Ezra, Michael Pollan has a good example of the problems that Matt discusses here. Evidently, it would be good if subsidies to wealthy agricultural conglomerates could just be eliminated (or severe
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It may not be literally true that Larry Johnson is the biggest clown in the internets, but close enough. Or at least I believed that until he was vindicated by exclusive video footage!
Woodrow Wilson, speaking about the recent US occupation of Vera Cruz during his commencement address at the US Naval Academy, 5 June 1914: What do you think is the most lasting impression that those b
Ferraro: Geraldine Ferraro has a plan for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) to recoup her sizable campaign debt: Have Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) fundraisers pick up the tab. After a long primary season, the Clinton campaign’s expenditures have far exceeded the amount of donations it has received so far, and the campaign has accumulated debt […]
I’m not surprised to see this. The fact that it was Robert Johnson and Lanny Davis making the public pitch made it pretty clear that Clinton was not interested in mounting a public campaign for
I’m not one for Kennedy nostalgia, but it was certainly a moment of immense historical importance. I don’t think that — even had RFK won the nomination and beaten Nixon — that
RIP From my privileged position, her writing had more impact than her activism and legal work, although for the world the latter two probably made a greater impact. A civil rights hero has left us. Links to her online writings are conveniently rounded up by Kay Olson at Amptoons. If you’re unfamiliar with her and […]
As is being reported everywhere,Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley and Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne have been asked to resign. The proximate cause appears to have been the mishandling
Shorter Tom Maguire: All institutionalized racism ended immediately after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, because these changes to formal law both ended racism and erased the ongoing impacts of p