This pretty much nails it. Meanwhile, some more on the man who will be the Republican point man on judicial nominations: Figures recalled one occasion in which the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division sent them instructions to investigate a case that Sessions had tried to close: “We had a very spirited discussion regarding how the […]
Month: May 2009
Darren Hutchinson has a good response to Orrin Hatch’s signal that — should she be the nominee — he plans to make a big deal out of Sotomayor’s comment that the “Court of
To add to the additional commentary about the tendentious TNR smear of Sonia Sotomayor, I think it’s worth asking about the genre of putting substantial weight on the testimony of clerks at all.
Republicans might as well be specific here. I suppose it’s possible that some people are willing to accept the argument that Guantanamo was chosen as a detention site because “illegal combatants” posed a grave threat threat to Americans that could only be adequately contained on an isolated naval base. (Certain law professors, for example, wondered […]
The Obama administration really needs to end the policy. It’s both immoral and bad for the country, and the idea that it’s going to me a major votimg issue in the 2010 midterms is frankly
Enough civilian body parts to fill two tractor-trailers remained after an incident in Farah province of Afghanistan Monday, according to the NY Times today. Afghan civilians blame US airstrikes for 10
All, I am off to Seattle for a week, and aside from a couple of preset posts will be taking a break from blogging until Saturday, May 16. Until then Charli Carpenter of Duck of Minerva will be filling in. Give her a warm welcome…
In the fabulous piracy-oriented South Park of two weeks ago, a French yacht surrenders to Fatbeard the Pirate without a shot being fired. When someone brings the issue up at the UN, a bureaucrat expla
In yet another manifestation of the massive backlash against Goodridge, which set back same-sex marriage rights for decades, Maine has ended its denial of fundamental rights to same-sex couples. Hopef
It’s good that Yankee fans were astute enough to make the greatest pitcher athlete in Yankee known human history their player of the game yesterday. As was reflected by Al-Yankeezera’s broadcast team — without question one of the 30 best local broadcast teams in major league baseball — Joba’s performance was just unbelievably great. I […]
“Now” being 1946, according to the great Kid Nichols. This reads like a perfect parody of the “in my day we didn’t have fancy curve balls or surgery for bone chips, and we had
What really bugs me is the monument to the Jefferson Davis highway in Washington state. If someone bought a monument to Hitler, would the state put that up too?