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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 McCain: Two of the.