Author: Scott Lemieux
Shorter verbatim Jonah Goldberg: "People say, 'well, why should we be neutral on race when people aren't neutral about whose family gave more money to a school and all the.
Well, this isn't surprising. Hopefully, this time parochial interests won't trump the compelling public interest, although given the extent to which American political institutions favor the former I'm still not.
Given that many people have already critiqued the latest Douthat nonsense on abortion (see also here), for some variety I thought I'd address similar arguments made recently by Megan McArdle..
I mentioned in my initial post about Caperton that it was a classic example of Scalia's showy rhetoric concealing substantive points of highly dubious quality. To unpack this a bit,.
Hiram Monserrate and Pedro Espada Jr. This is way-bayond-Lieberman wankery. Espada, in particular, has always been a world-class practitioner of the onanistic arts.
In a pleasantly surprising decision, the Supreme Court today held 5-4 (along predictable ideological lines with Kennedy as the swing vote) that West Virginia judge Brent Benjamin violated the due.
Shorter Shelby Steele: Because she is a Latina, Sonia Sotomayor is ipso facto unqualified to be nominated to the Supreme Court. Her extremely impressive formal qualifications are beside the point;.