The findings of the Epstein/Landez Posner study about the increasing tendency of the Supreme Court to side with business interests aren’t surprising, but the data is useful to have anyway. This kind of study of judicial behavior has its limitations, but the trend is pretty clear here, and is in part of a very conscious […]
Month: December 2010
Michael Lind asks if anyone in America believes in the rule of law? It’s a good question, but his response to it reveals it’s a much tougher one to answer than he imagines. First, he excor
I just want to draw everyone’s attention to the comment thread of this post. The post itself isn’t particularly interesting, but the comment thread is fascinating in that it reads almost
Erm… no. Amos, though, is the wrong man to deal with it. His subordinates know what he thinks of gays. They know he has not an iota of sympathy for what might be their difficulties or any tolerance for their lifestyle. If I were gay, I would not want to work for the man – […]
The last time this happened, the world as we know it – and the right to worship it as we choose – did not exist.
The NYT has been running a series on “Disunion” that, alas, I’ve somehow managed to overlook for the past two months. Regardless, the most recent entry coincides with the 150th anniv
Loomis: 150 years ago today, South Carolina declared treason to defend slavery, seceding from the Union in order to preserve its ability to own, sell, rape, and murder black people. 4 1/2 years later and 500,000 dead Americans later, this treason was crushed. But of course, the South has contested the meanings of this event […]
Is Haley Barbour really going to run for the GOP nomination in 2012? I hope so; the modern neo-Confederate+Corporate Lobbyist Republican Party might as well have a definitive standard-bearer: As Bar
The proposed amendment that would allow 2/3rds of the states to repeal federal legislation is getting a surprising amount of attention. A few points: What would we be without wishful thinking: ̶
By which I mean, of course, pretending that one is Pete Campbell in “The Fog” and discovering a trend long after it began trending and figuring out how to exploit it. Because I haven’t been back to or through Lousiana in over two years, yesterday I was taken aback by the different advertising environment that […]
See Ratliff and Kenny.
His column is very good and properly criticial, but there’s still something amusingly I-can’t-quit-you about this bit from Joe Klein’s postmature farewell to his admiration for McCai