One thing to consider, when listening to Will Saletan types talking about how everybody should simply agree that abortion is immoral, is that shaming women about obtaining abortions has real (and bad) consequences. And, of course, starting from the premise that abortion is morally wrong...
Author: Scott Lemieux
The grim possibility that Bob Casey could become Pennsylvania's best Democratic Senator seems to have been averted.
My position on the Senate's authority to refuse to seat Roland Burris appears to be in conflict with several of the legal scholars I most admire (cf. Tushnet, Balkin, and.
I sure do hope that anti-choicers keep bringing up Terri Schiavo. Who knows, maybe this time the media will even figure out that the federal intervention was unpopular.
Erick Erickson. A lesser hack would be careful not to remind people of this great moment in circus clowndom, but Erickson is very, very special.
Shorter Verbatim Dr. Helen: "Now, most Americans under 70 apparently think that 2008 was the worst year they have ever seen economically. Yet, whenever I talk to people, they always.
Long-time readers will know I agree entirely with this:So that’s the context in which to ask whether or not it makes sense to have a supermajority requirement for many Senate votes. I would say “no.” Even absent the filibuster, our system would still feature an...
Shorter Michelle Malkin: "The work of a Little Green Footballs commenter who wrote lengthy posts asserting that polls showing a comfortable Obama win were clearly a product of systematic liberal.
Becks asks:Can a movie present itself as historical, grossly distort the facts, and still be considered good art?Yes. Actually, I would take a position diametrically opposed to Becks's; basically, if.
I'm guessing that the percentage of Republican Senators who 1)will refuse to seat Al Franken and encourage Norm Coleman to pursue months of futile lawsuits and 2)who complained that Al Gore was a "sore loser" for not conceding after Fox News called Florida for Bush...
My vacation has limited my blog reading, so I assume someone else has already discussed this. But since I haven't seen it much, I feel compelled to point out that.
As an addendum to Matt's post, allow me to note from the frozen tundra of Alberta that the NHL offers us a good controlled experiment in the effectiveness of salary.