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 on a false narrative. And second, as Erik has already said, there should be at...
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I argue that the Court should and will claim jurisdiction over both suits. As always, Linda Greenhouse is worth reading on the subject as well.
The first thing to note about Freddie deBoer's response to my point about his ridiculous generalizations about liberals and torture is that he cites Alan Dershowitz as representing the typical.
Without the banner, it would be hard to tell.
The ol' bait-and-switch. And, yes, people who are conned into voting for Republicans because they pretend to be moderates are suckers who shouldn't be surprised by this, but still.
John Tierney's article on mass incarceration and the (War on Some Classes of People Who Use Some) Drugs is very good: Stephanie George and Judge Roger Vinson had quite different.
I suspect both Chait and Suderman are overestimating the political impact of raising the Medicare eligibility age. But if we're talking about direction rather than intensity, I think Suderman has a better case and (from my perspective) this is bad. Doing this would do more...
After 20 years of lavishly funded Pain Caucus campaigns, the only people who care about the deficit and favor slashing entitlements are...the same slice of the elite who cared about.
I noticed this expansion of the old vastleft strawman while reading deBoer's argument about how all liberals are secret torture apologists: Here's my problem: for months prior to Election Day,.
Ann Althouse is trying to defend Antonin Scalia as not being motivated by an opposition to gay and lesbian rights in the jurisprudence that consistently disfavors their interests. David Savage characterizes Scalia (correctly) as arguing that the law "can and should enforce moral standards." According...
As always on the subject, what Roy said. There seem to be serious questions about whether the portrayal of Zero Dark Thirty as being pro-torture is accurate. But even if.
I'm reluctant to tease Yeselson's piece on the Michigan loss last week because it's all excellent, but this general point is a good introduction to the specific claims about the.