To expand on what I tweeted earlier because I knew I'd be late: BRUINS v. LIGHTNING: Really, really tough to call, with Tampa Bay's far superior front-line offensive talent going up against Boston's greater depth and better defense. Essentially a coin-flip, so as the deciding...
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Newt wants to bring back poll tests.
DeLong makes a crucial point about "libertarian" opposition to civil rights law: When you own a hotel and bar Black people what happens is that if Black people comes in.
It can make you the Republican legislator of the year!
I think Chait is missing (like Dana Goldstein before him) the fact that Ron Paul is a staunch opponent of the Civil Rights Act because he's such a principled libertarian.
...we just live in it.
Is a problem with irresponsible journalists: An Al Gore problem is what happens when the media forms an impression of your character and decides to cram every irrelevant detail of your appearance and behavior into that frame, regardless of whether or not it means anything....
In comments, I think Pithlord gets at what legal arguments about the ACA ultimately boil down to: "In the real world, if courts never enforce a standard, then it isn’t.
I know we could be dealing with yet another Republican primary that nobody should logically be able to win, and hence anyone could win. But I still say that Mittens.
My column in the Prospect this week discusses how the oral arguments at 4th Circuit earlier this week represented the pure shoddiness of the constitutional arguments being mounted against the ACA. The "inactivity/activity" distinction is not a serious argument but something cooked up to strike...
How can Democrats "play politics" with the inherently apolitical act of casting votes in the United States House of Representatives? For shame! Although you can see where the Republicans are.
Clearly, if the president could unilaterally appoint the rural utilities service administrator, we could no longer call ourselves a democracy.