Shorter Bobo: Having the Senate run like every pretty much every other democratic legislature in the world would be like genocide. Now, when pro-apartheid southern Senators ran everything and everyone went out for drinks in a nice bipartisan fashion, those were the days! ...see...
Author: Scott Lemieux
To join Rob in betraying this site's long-standing trend of disagreement with Will Saletan, allow me to endorse pretty much all of this, in particular the idea that at some.
You may be wondering where the "Obama is coming for your salt!" idea comes from. (Other than pure derangement, I mean.) Apparently, it's a product of one of the oldest.
If you want a good example of the extent to which we live in an unjust world, comapre the sad fate of the first black woman to be elected to the South Carolina legislature with that of Kindly Ol' Strom Thurmond.
This story about reading dissents from the bench reminds me why Pamela Karlan belongs (with Diane Wood) at or near the very top of Obama's Supreme Court shortlist: Consider Bowers.
You may remember that one of the most annoying guests to routinely appear on cable news during the 2000 election theft was Pat Cadell, who (following up his appearance as.
Stephen Green asserts that to find a president criticizing the Supreme Court you have to go back to Old Hickory. (And his quote is actually apocryphal, although since it's "fake but true" I'll give him a pass.) But, of course, there are many more recent...
For whatever reason, the filibuster has a romantic appeal to people who should know better, and you often hear from those who dislike the current rules that changing the rules.
Shorter Mike Allen: "I'm stealing my employers' money. OK, my hypothetical employers who care about informing the public."
A good question: should the acting categories at the Oscars be gender-neutral? Certainly, in the abstract I think Elsesser is correct that the gender segregation is indefensible: acting is acting. I take the point in response that in our actual unjust world gender-neutral awards would...
Bart Stupak. I actually think Digby is being a little too charitable when she says that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is "willing to deep six the rest of.
What Serwer, Yglesias, and Steve all said. If the administration is really going to go with a military tribunal for KSM, it's bad on the merits and bad politics. One.