In a widely expected decision, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 today that restrictions on corporate campaign spending are unconstitutional. More later today when I've had a chance to read it, but in the meantime I can't resist quoting Mark Tushnet:Political Scientist Peter Irons wrote a...
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I'll have a longer post following up on Rob's post below in the morning. Before that, one thing I'll say is that if Senate Dems really think that, in a.
Kate McGarrigle, 1946-2010. Definitely a great one.
Shorter Bobo: passing a health care bill that might only have been able to get a 59-41 supermajority in the Senate would be "political suicide." Going into the midterms having failed to pass substantial legislation, on the other hand, would be political gold -- just...
As Sadly, No! and Mr. Bogg have already documented, Ben Shapiro's latest entry at Andrew Breitbart's Aesthetic Stalinism for Dummies is a classic. It actually starts out a little frighteningly.
Keith Brooking. Aww, a professional team playing another professional team in a playoff game continued to play football in the fourth quarter, boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo.And now.
I figured that it would be a long time before I saw anything as pathetic as the PUMA conference. But, apparently, I might be mistaken...
Ravens v. Colts (-6.5) Interesting matchup. But since I just don't see the Painter Bowl as the crime against humanity most people do, I can't take Flacco over Manning on.
I'm certainly no admirer of Justice Kennedy's jurisprudence, but I nevertheless found Eric Posner's critical (of both Kennedy and the book) review of a recent book about AJK somewhat slippery.
New Law Requires Women To Name Baby, Paint Nursery Before Getting Abortion
[Photo: Nashville Post via Yglesias.]Given that he'd be drawing dead even if he were running a competent campaign (or even showed some recognition that the race he's considering is a.
Willie Mitchell and Jay Reatard, R.I.P. Carrie Brownstein urges us to think of Mitchell not just as a great producer, but as a terrfic musician in his own right.Addendum: [from.