Beloved Maverick and Man of High Principle John McCain gives us some of the Straight Talk (TM) for which he is justly famed: TPMDC asked, "Do you support the Minority Leader's push for hearings into the repeal of birthright citizenship?" "Sure, why not?" McCain said...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Good. And here's a blast from the past with a winning strategy: On Tuesday, Rick Lazio, a Republican candidate for governor, appeared at the vote, in an auditorium at Pace.
Discussing the recent whining of Alberto Gonzales who, like Jay Bybee, wants it known that he's one of the real victims of the arbitrary torture regime he helped conceive of.
Republican contempt for the Constitution continues: In the House, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.) has introduced the Birthright Citizenship Act of 2009, which would attempt to deny children of illegal immigrants U.S. citizenship through statute rather than a constitutional amendment (thereby lowering the vote threshold). He...
Of course! It's also worth noting that Rudy 9/11's bigoted logic here is straight out of the Jim Crow playbook. According to Dixiecrat senators, the "decent" African-Americans in their.
BTD asserts: The second problem with this question is Bowers not imagining what a GOP President and GOP Congress would have achieved with the elimination of the filibuster. You thought.
As if to illustrate the point made recently by Jon Chait, Doug Mataconis hauls some of the hoariest defenses of the electoral college out of the mothballs: Without it, Presidential candidates would concentrate their resources even more in the areas where the votes are, ignoring...
John Kyl.
I don't have enough knowledge about the contents of the Afghan War Diaries to engage in informed commentary about their contents, so what I'm saying here is more a way.
Maury Chaykin, R.I.P. He was a fine actor, and I was especially fond of him as the careless, vaguely ethical bookie in Owning Mahowny. And, also, Ben Keith R.I.P. Although he's permanently linked with Neil Young, it was an interesting and varied career -- who...
Yes, as I think I've said before I'd have to say that this passage is pretty much definitive Rand. As it happens, I've been reading Jennifer Burns's very good Rand-and-the-right.
Shorter Col. Mustard: "Religious freedom, pluralism, and equality might be important American values, but if they might cause Osama bin Laden to say something snarky on a videotape, out the.