Like Glenn, I'm dismayed by polling showing widespread support -- including among Democrats and liberals -- for arbitrary executive power in the "war on terror." But I take somewhat different lessons from it. Glenn sees this as above all as evidence of tribalism -- that...
Author: Scott Lemieux
The top 5% are overwhelmingly conservative!
Like a majority -- although not all -- commentators, I think that Reinhardt's narrow opinion striking down Prop 8 was probably represented the right way to proceed: Still, Reinhardt's decision.
Santorum's beauty pageant sweep was fun and everything, but Romney is still inevitable. The key point is the first one -- Romney's massive edge in resources didn't come into play yesterday because he didn't attempt to swamp Santorum in these states the way he successfully...
Shorter Karen Handel: I am outraged that Planned Parenthood politicized my successful move to get them excluded from funding because what they do conflicts with my reactionary political views.
Whenever the courts strike down a law that discriminates against a group conservatives don't like, every reactionary think and group blog must draw straws to see who gets to throw.
The Ninth Circuit has ruled that PropH8 is unconstitutional. I am very concerned that this will undermine Newt Gingrich's commitment to the sacred institution of heterosexual marriage. Obviously, good news, although the news will ultimately only be as good as Tony Kennedy decides it will....
Shorter Bobo: I find the "technocrats" in the Obama administration demoralizing because they don't understand the core of any successful anti-poverty formula: unplanned pregnancies, and plenty of 'em. And don't.
As you might expect, Ross Douthat is unhappy about the backlash against the Komen Foundation's decision to defund Planned Parenthood. Much of his argument consists of assertions of media bias.
If Karl Rove hates something, I would indeed inclined to support it if I didn't already.
His campaign is still working with white supremacists. But, anyway, this stuff (whether past or present) just represents "character defects," like adultery or something. He's great on civil liberties for.
Niall Ferguson. Defending terrible ends using embarrassingly unserious arguments is Ferguson's specialty, so it's hard to isolate any particularly argument as being especially bad. One can start with his inability.