Half shorter/Half Verbatim Tim Pawlenty: "I'm sorry that I once had a halfway rational position on climate change. I will try to avoid ever being rational again."
Month: May 2011
Shorter Niall Ferguson: "I find the ideas of LGM's most dimwitted trolls fascinating, and would like to subscribe to their newsletter."
Awesome: John McCain and Joe Lieberman have been intertwined a lot over the last few years and here's another place where they share company- they are two of the three.
The Pataki-appointed clown chiefly responsible for denying Tony Kushner an honorary degree from John Jay speaks: But Mr. Wiesenfeld interrupted and said the question was offensive because “the comparison sets up a moral equivalence.” Equivalence between what and what? “Between the Palestinians and Israelis,” he...
I think this settles the question.
I haven't been following the story, but the absurdity of this should be manifest: Videos posted by the conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart appear to have ended the teaching career of.
When Twitter began exploding last Sunday night in the run-up to Obama's big speech, one of the first things I did was set the tweet-harvester my husband has invented to start collecting all tweets on the hashtags #OBL and #Bin Laden. My thought was to...
As a follow-up to Dahlia Lithwick's excellent recent piece about the proliferation of state anti-abortion restrictions, I have a new Prospect column arguing that while in some ways these restrictions.
Tony Kushner was denied an honorary degree by CUNY trustees for insufficient Likudnism. If there was a contest among the trustees to see who could commit the most egregious breach.
I suppose proposing this is like asking for a unicorn farm, but John Paul Stevens is right about what an appropriate response to Connick. v. Thompson would look like: Stevens said Monday that the nature of the American criminal justice system—where most local prosecutors are...
In the context of my previous work on the institutional architecture of the US military, this week's WPR column could probably best be summed up as "give the Air Force.
The Senate Republican budget will probably require people to eat broccoli deep fried Twinkies! If they don't take their own constitutional arguments seriously, I'm certainly not going to.