I'm sure I'll be returning to these essays once the movie makes it to the provinces, but until then I will note that the debate has inspired some brilliant writing from Glenn Kenny and Manohla Dargis. (I particularly endorse Glenn's point about the "standard viewer"...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Another deal is being floated. Let's think this through (with the caveat that the details could change): The chained-CPI Social Security cuts are terrible, terrible public policy. Now, yes, to.
We've had some strong early entries: Glenn Reynolds, "let us cite William Burroughs as an authority on the dangers of gun control"; Ann Althouse, "let us speculate about how Nancy.
Garrett Epps on the recent 7CA opinion striking down Illinois's ban on concealed carry: Posner's opinon in the new case Moore v. Madigan contains the most bizarre line I have read in a federal-court opinion since, well, ever. The issue is whether the Supreme Court's two...
Toles pretty much says it all. I've never been able to track it down, but the perfect companion to it would be a cartoon that Brockington used to have on.
Glenn Reynolds got off to a pretty good start yesterday. But never think he can't top himself: "After a shooting spree," author William Burroughs once said, "they always want to.
Hopefully they will pay him enough that it won't be worth his while to ever work for a Democrat again. Well, unless Andrew Cuomo wanted to hire him to run his 2016 primary campaign...
Shorter Verbatim Jeff Goldstein: "Obama, silent about union violence in Michigan, immediately reacts to Connecticut school shooting."
One of many relevant facts: 2. Eleven of the 20 worst mass shootings in the last 50 years took place in the United States. Time has the full list here..
Jonathan Rauch (via Sullivan) makes the familiar argument that for the constitutional challenge to Prop 8 to succeed would really be a strategic loss. This is wrong, and if you don't believe me believe Michael Klarman, who started his research sympathetic to arguments like...
But there's always 2016! I'm pretty sure "I'm not a gynecologist, but I can tell you something" is already the header for the women's issues section of the Republican platform.
Well, the Republicans got their trophy. There are two points that should be made about this episode. First, the attacks on Rice were a classic baseless Republican smear job, based.