...Mr. Rick Santorum, for his assertions that women are just too hysterical to serve combat roles. Someone should ask Santorum why he hates the IDF... ...and, actually, as his "clarification" makes clear, he's sexist twice over. Shorter Ricky: "Men are too immature to understand that...
Month: February 2012
Henry's compendium of anti-labor arguments from nominally progressive academics is very useful. Attempts to come up with arguments against grad student unionization that wouldn't apply to any other context remain.
It would be challenging to find a Democratic Party figure I loathe more than Larry Summers. There are so many reasons. Here's one more: Prior to joining the Obama administration.
Over the past two weeks, port truck drivers in Seattle have refused to work for many reasons, ranging from very low pay to terrible working conditions. The Sierra Club has issued a press release in support of the strikers, noting: “The Sierra Club stands in...
So it seems that Frank Gehry is designing a memorial for Dwight Eisenhower on the National Mall. Eisenhower's family is angry because, gasp, one of the scenes shows Dewey as.
Thank Jeebus for this... The White House is "all talk, no action" on moving toward compromise, said Anthony Picarello, general counsel for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. "There has.
The lesson: Conservatives will always find a way to pin the blame for any issue on women.
A couple people in comments endorsed Jason Mazzone's critique of the Ninth Circuit panel's narrow opinion ruling Prop 8 unconstitutional and asked for my reaction. To paraphrase Byron White, I.
Like Glenn, I'm dismayed by polling showing widespread support -- including among Democrats and liberals -- for arbitrary executive power in the "war on terror." But I take somewhat different.
Matt Duss takes on James Fly in this week's installment of Foreign Entanglements: Yeah, good luck with that. Telling that Fly can't offer any examples of successful regime change through the air, or really very much in terms of what a target set would look...
The top 5% are overwhelmingly conservative!
(Another one of those now-more-conveniently-located posts, only significantly longer than usual because I'm squeezing three episodes into one three hour course. So apologies for the length in advance.) One of the.