Responding to attempts to analogize Elena Kagan to Harriet Miers — which are certainly problematic in several respects — Matt analogizes Elena Kagan to John Roberts. I think this analogy, however, is at least equally problematic. First of all, Roberts did have a judicial track record in the federal appellate courts. But even more importantly, […]
Month: May 2010
Later this afternoon, I will begin a short research trip to the nation formerly known as the United Kingdom. My research had originally focused on pedestrian topics such as the origins of the Royal Ai
Davida Isaacs and I have an article at TAPPED on Iron Man 2 and defense contracting: Explosions, tattoos, and Scarlett Johansson notwithstanding, the disputes between Tony Stark and his antagonists re
Apparently, Elena Kagan will be nominated for the Supreme Court. I will go into more detail about this later, but there shouldn’t be any sugarcoating — it’s a poor choice. One way of seeing this is to examine Marty Peretz’s attempted defense. Boil off the usual add homienems and you’re left with no actual real […]
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Nice slideshow of the 65th anniversary celebration of the end of the Great Patriotic War. Love the T-34s: But especially dig Medvedev’s handshake with Death: You can pass 70-630 and 70-542 withi
And boy does he have good argument! I’m a bit bemused that my favorite trivial pursuit is illustrated by a cover story in Peretz’s own magazine.
UK-based NGO Landmine Action says yes. In a recent report, the organization points out that we do not consider explosive bombs an acceptable tool in police operations, and proposes they be stigmatized
Then the time is now to stop pussyfooting around with the Tories, and do this, FFS. The SNP and Plaid Cymru are open to a progressive coalition? Do it, Nick. If you think that David Cameron is g
To follow up on one point raised by Paul, I was genuinely puzzled by this post by Ilya Somin. This isn’t because I disagree with his argument that being an outstanding dean doesn’t require one to be an outstanding scholar. Rather, my puzzlement comes from the opposite direction: I would have thought that it’s obvious […]
Some thoughts on the impending nomination. The wildly contrasting impressions about Kagan can be easily reconciled if one assumes that people who know Kagan are simply projecting their own political i
Another great tribute from Posnanski. Roberts was just a tremendous pitcher for his first 8 years (and had a second wave of very good pitching after joining the Orioles in the 60s), although because o