A great point here by Michael Berube. While I understand that acknowledging the deeply-felt moral sense of people who oppose some abortions procured by the wrong kind of pe…er, “pro-lifers” is politically necessary in some cases, few things frustrate me as much as framing the issue in a way that implies that while people who oppose […]
Author: Scott Lemieux
Julia at Sisyphus Shrugged nails it. Really, the Times should have suggested that the book would have been better with another year or twenty of research. But, then, and op-ed page with that kind of
I mentioned recently that to call Antonin Scalia a “formalist” is too give him too much credit. Now, in fairness, if you evaluate these things on a continuum he could be seen as relatively
Just to make a last quick point, I think this post at the (superb) Counterspin Central represents a fairly common misperception about the extent of Dred Scott‘s holding. Obviously, if the Court had simply held that Dred Scott didn’t have the right to sue because he was a slave, the case would be utterly uncontroversial (from a […]
Paperwight and Mark Kleiman are, of course, correct: the President’s bizarre invocation of Dred Scott is about abortion. Lest you think this is a reach, let’s turn it over to Nino, in hi
The best line of debate coverage, I must concede, is from Sully: Bush promised at one point that he’d be more “facile” in future. That’s going to be a hard promise to keep. On
I just hope Atrios is right. I think Kerry did what he needed to do, but as I said below he let too many distortions lay out there. It’s probably correct that responding to each one would be counterproductive. But his response on the war supplemental–which still doesn’t mention Bush’s threatened veto–remains painfully inadequate. Let’s turn it […]
Bush throws out the distortions on the $87M vote and the “global test,” and Kerry ignores it. Jesus Christ. And now Bush is claiming, again, that inspections and sanctions didn’t wor
Fortunately, Yglesias offers the appropriate analysis of swing-state supporters of my least-favorite conservative vanity candidate so I don’t have to.
Even former Bush sycophants are deserting–Andrew Sullivan, Howard Fineman, Mickey Kaus. But I was shocked to see that the paper of choice for the complacent mid-right, The Seattle Times, had endorsed Kerry: Four years ago, this page endorsed George W. Bush for president. We cannot do so again — because of an ill-conceived war and its aftermath, […]
Against my better judgment, I used Kernell and Jacobsohn’s The Logic of American Politics for my course on American political history. I wasn’t crazy about it in my perusal, but it’
I don’t have much to add to Rob’s able attack on the laughable attempts of Cheney to spin the Duelfer report. I would like to emphasize that utter worthlessness of intentions, in and of th