I have a piece up at the Prospect about the obvious constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. In particular, the "activity/inactivity" distinction cooked up by conservatives to get the ACA ruled unconstitutional 1)has no basis in the text of the Constitution or Supreme Court precedent...
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Why won't people leave kindly old Ron Paul alone? Elsewhere in "paleocon some people like kidding themselves about" news, Pat Buchanan has been suspended for expressing the same odious views.
Since I was on the road, I missed the first game (I'm, ah, sure I would have picked the Texans behind the immortal T.J. Yates.) But still time for the.
Perlstein is great on Rick Santorum's grandfather's alleged escape from fascism into "freedom": So, from the unfreedom of Mussolini, he marched into the rosy-fingered dawn of American freedom—which Santorum described thusly: "He left to the coal fields of Southern Pennsylvania. He worked in the mine...
John Yoo is very upset about the abuse of executive power in the president making recess appointments when the Senate is not conducting business and refusing to consider any nominees.
Rick Santorum quotes as New Yorker cartoons.
Will be largely absent the next couple days, as I made the retrospectively bad choice to pay a considerable sum to watch "the kind of game that ends people's careers" in person. (Great rink and atmosphere, though, and when did the Bruins evolve from good...
Look, given the bang-up job he did running MF Global, surely Corzine deserved another luxury house or five?
Dahlia Lithwick is good on the Montana Supreme Court's rejection of Citizens United. It probably wouldn't save it from being overturned anyway, but the angle I would take in the.
Gordon Hirabayashi, a civil rights hero who was arrested while attending my alma mater and ended his career teaching at my native province's flagship university, passed away at age 93. He was the last survivor of the three courageous people who refused to comply with...
The problem isn't that he's uniquely bad. The problem is that for a Republican he's pretty typical; he's just blunter about the real goals of the anti-choice lobby.
Barack Obama has indeed been unduly timid when it comes to dealing with constitutional envelope-pushing by congressional Republicans, with the capitulation over the debt ceiling being the most recent example. .