Month: April 2009
The Supreme Court today held -- in a 5-4 decisions along predictable ideological lines -- that an FCC regulatory change that made broadcasters legally liable for broadcasting even fleeting, isolated.
Hard left now filibuster-proof....[update by Rob] in an article filed last night, Alexander Bolton argued that Specter was moving right and cutting into Toomey's base. FAIL!
Michael Gerson asserts that his belief torture is OK as long as Americans do it isn't "moral relativism." This man seems deeply confused, although I think it's more along the.
I got home from Welfare Bankster Field and fired up the Flames in TiVo, only to discover that they decided to switch the game from the pay channel to the.
Because having a second child has produced an unanticipated multiplier effect on the amount of time required to complete a variety of non-blogging-related tasks, I missed this spot of weirdness.
More than 50 years ago John Rawls wrote a famous essay in which he defended utilitarian theories of punishment from the charge they justified punishing innocent people under certain circumstances..
Yves Smith suggests, in light of this NYT front-pager, that the administration may be distancing itself from Geithner. Unfortunately they may be drawing the wrong implications:Thus what is surprising about.
Shorter Stuart Taylor: It is well-established that criminal laws can only be applied if it can be proven that lawbreaking had no positive consequence whatsoever.* By far the most reliable.