Lithwick reads Cheney so you don’t have to.
Month: August 2011
I’m not quite as pessimistic as Ruth Bader Ginsburg is about the possibility of someone with her record being confirmed to the Supreme Court again. I do agree with Carmon and Millhiser that it&#
Off early tomorrow morning to the American Political Science Association conference in Seattle. May post a bit, but am far more likely to tweet APSA related material. Recollect that we have an LGM
As will become even clearer over time as I continue to write here, I can be pretty obsessive about things. One of those things is museums. Museums really affect me in strong ways–I often either love or hate what I see and get riled up about it. Yesterday, I visited Springfield Armory National Historic Site […]
Professors and students at Southwestern University in Texas, where I taught for 3 years, have developed an interesting study that was recently presented at the American Sociological Association and co
Prick Erry is, of course, also a radical anti-choice crank. But don’t kid yourself, this will really hurt him among the two or three Tea Party voters who only care about fiscal issues.
The strong opinion by 1CA holding that police officers who prevent people from recording them in public are acting in violation of the First Amendment is obviously good news. It also seems to imply pretty clearly that laws attempting to ban the practice would be held unconstitutional if the issue had been before the court.
Apparently, it‘s now considered dirty pool for candidates of either party to mention that another candidate believes that extremely popular federal programs violate the Constitution.
This is certainly the creepiest thing I’ve seen in a long time. The audience reaction makes it even worse than it looks on paper.
Obviously, it’s encouraging that the new chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers is the kind of economist for whom empirical evidence trumps models. Brad Plumer does us a very useful service by looking more broadly at his academic work.
Definitely one thing the Obama administration got right.
I think most baseball fans would get the right answer if asked to name the team with the worst run differential this year (Houston, of course.) But I’m guessing not many would guess the te