I want to take the opportunity to reiterate one of Lawyers, Guns and Money’s core, foundational beliefs: That Raul Ibanez will never amount to anything.
Month: June 2009
Radley Balko and Jeff Winkler stroll down Memory Lane at Time magazine, where moral panic isn’t a sociological concept — it’s an exciting brand of contemporary journalism. I was at t
Mahmound Ahmadinejad is a billion times worse than Hitler, unless he loses the election, in which case he was always irrelevant. … each major candidate seem to believe that he won by forty point
Commenting in defense of grandfather clauses that help to perpetuate previously racist admissions policies and John Roberts’s empty formalism in Parents Involved, David Nieporent asserts: And both you and Stevens might want to review Marshall’s arguments in Brown. He explicitly explained to the Court that the purpose was to end race-concious decisionmaking, not to (to […]
…because he makes Saletan look good by comparison?
It would be irresponsible not to speculate. Also, Jon Chait on why people Glenn Reynolds need to learn it’s actually possible to be right wing and still hate Jews.
Shorter verbatim Jonah Goldberg: “People say, ‘well, why should we be neutral on race when people aren’t neutral about whose family gave more money to a school and all the rest?’ And there’s a longer answer, but a short answer is simply that, you know, we fought a civil war over race. We amended the […]
Well, this isn’t surprising. Hopefully, this time parochial interests won’t trump the compelling public interest, although given the extent to which American political institutions favor t
This is clever.
John Yoo and his uncrushed testicles turned 42 years old today. Because John Yoo is not, in fact, a conservative at all, he seems unbothered by the fact that his government managed to sustain itself for well over two centuries without relying on the insane legal yodeling for which he’ll forever be remembered. As one […]
I wonder which of Ross Douthat and Megan McArdle’s pre-existing policy preferences we’re going to have to institute in order to appease the latest domestic terrorist. Certainly, I don̵
If radical Muslims had carried out terrorist attacks in Kansas and Washington DC over the past five days, we might be trying to pass legislation giving the president the legal authority to place peopl