Given that many people have already critiqued the latest Douthat nonsense on abortion (see also here), for some variety I thought I’d address similar arguments made recently by Megan McArdle. From her response to Hilzoy: My argument is that abortion, like slavery, is becoming in this country an issue upon which people have no reasonable […]
Month: June 2009
Via Mizokami, this website makes some interesting claims about North Korean capability to hit Seoul with artillery in the first hours of a renewed conflict on the Korean Peninsula. The typical argumen
I meant to write about this yesterday, but professional responsibilities interfered: I believe I am setting records for tardiness in submitting my grades for the year. Since I’m the equivalent o
Now this is fascinating: In a sign of growing concern in Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government over US President Barack Obama’s Middle East policies, Minister-without-Portfolio Yossi Peled proposed Israeli sanctions on the US in a letter to cabinet ministers on Sunday… In the interim, the minister suggests reconsidering military and civilian purchases from the US, […]
It helps if you read these two posts with the soundtrack from “You Only Live Twice” playing in the background. Via Axe.
I mentioned in my initial post about Caperton that it was a classic example of Scalia’s showy rhetoric concealing substantive points of highly dubious quality. To unpack this a bit, let’s
Sorry, busy day with parental visit and various other tasks that need doing, but while I might get to this later see Roy, Barbara, Kathleen Reeves, K-Drum, and Athenae. I do have to address this: “One reason there’s so much fierce argument about the latest of late-term abortions — Should there be a health exemption? […]
Following up on Scott’s post, Potter Stewart was famously derided for describing “obscenity” as something that can’t be pinned down by formal definition, but which nevertheless
Hiram Monserrate and Pedro Espada Jr. This is way-bayond-Lieberman wankery. Espada, in particular, has always been a world-class practitioner of the onanistic arts.
In a pleasantly surprising decision, the Supreme Court today held 5-4 (along predictable ideological lines with Kennedy as the swing vote) that West Virginia judge Brent Benjamin violated the due process rights of plaintiffs in a civil suit when he refused to recuse himself despite the fact that the chairman of the company appealing the […]
Recently in comments somebody noted with regret that Stephen Strasburg would be wasted as a superstar on a bad team; using the (probably not very good) example of Brien Taylor, I noted that it was unl
This does not surprise me in the least. It’s been well known in the pol sci lit that the EU Parliament is best considered a “second order” election since the 90s (which is a fancy