Bill Bavasi mercifully fired. It makes sense; charitably assuming that the Mariners may try to find a major league manager at some point this season, you want a new GM to do the search.Of course, the post title isn't strictly accurate until we find out...
Author: Scott Lemieux
I have an article up at TAP about some of the implications of last week's Supreme Court landmark. One important thing is that progressives shouldn't cede the national security component.
Ogged, riffing on Adam Liptak's article about the United States as a (recent) outlier on free speech:It's dogma in the US that if you give up a strong commitment to.
The punchline to this Times article about Giuliani's fundraising-for-personal-debt-relief racket is so strange that it makes me wonder if the banality is actually deadpan humor:Political analysts say that Mr. Giuliani’s once prolific fund-raising abilities have been hampered by several factors. Perhaps most significant is the...
Agreed (see also here.) I stopped taking Richardson's candidacy seriously when he endorsed a dissenter in Roe and Miranda (and the writer of the majority opinion in Bowers) as his.
If 2004 comes back, I'm sure he'll be very effective. And between him and Moises the Mets should have at least 20% of their remaining LF games covered.Actually, all snark.
Lawrence Lessig makes a convincing case.
Evaluating some arguments for and against Sebellius as a VP choice, Ezra discusses a strange argument I've always wondered about:Then, on the con side, we get an argument that's been.
Rick Sutcliffe.
Nixonland has enough writing about arson to satisfy me without having to watch the Mets's bullpen. It's unfortunate, but it's hard to see Randolph surviving too many more of these.
Souter, concurring in Boumediene: It is in fact the very lapse of four years from the time Rasul put everyone on notice that habeas process was available to Guantanamo prisoners,.
[Nixon would] top just short of calling the President a liar on Vietnam, then add that he would not be speaking of the war during Johnson's "sensitive negotiations with Hanoi".