Shorter Bob Corker: "I would happily undermine our nation's security by refusing to ratify an important treaty as long as it meant that we would be able to continue to further undermine our nation's security by irrationally discriminating against gays and lesbians." The contemporary Republican...
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Don Van Vliet, R.I.P.
The retirement of Larry King reminds me of one of my favorite SNL paradoies of all time (alas, audio only):
As a complement to Pierce, enjoy Emma Span on the witless sexism in Bill Simmons's bestseller.
Megan McArdle apparently believes she has liberals who support broad federal powers dead to rights: 1) Can Congress enact a $50,000 tax on second term abortions? 2) Can Congress enact.
When dealing with the contemporary United States Senate, I would have thought not. And yet the stand-alone DADT repeal whose chances for passage I had (with good reason, I think).
And the European Court of Justice delivers! Actually, this is only very modestly good news -- no Roe or Morgentaler -- as Ireland's draconian ban on most abortions will remain in place. The ECJ has held, however, that the Irish legislature must act to ensure...
R.I.P. As you would expect, another great with a Cleveland connection has a terrific remembrance.
Radley Balko asks: Putting aside what’s codified Bill of Rights, which was ratified after the main body of the Constitution, do you believe the Constitution puts any restrictions on the.
While I don't necessarily have an objection to Michael Moore offering to put up Julian Assange's bail per se, his statements about Assange's accusers absolutely cannot be defended. And he's chosen to make similar statements again. Let's be clear: I have no idea if Assange...
To expand on Paul's point below, there's a long-running myth that the public reception to judicial opinions is based on the quality of their reasoning. One often hears that (in.
Apparently being assigned a book that isn't sufficiently aware of Jesus' strong endorsement of supply-side tax cuts in the Sermon on the Mount is the worst civil rights violation in.