The Editors point to some data that should compel us to keep things in perspective:House vote: 253-168 60.1%Republicans: 219-7 96.9%Democrats: 34-160 17.5%Senate vote: 65-34 65.7%Republicans: 53-1 98.1%Democrats: 12-32 27.3%As he, and Glenn , Tom and Barbara remind us, let's make sure we keep focus on...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Perdro out for the season. And the NL playoffs keep getting more interesting...
The vote national disgrace tally doesn't seem to be up on Thomas yet. According to Lederman:Democrats voting in favor included Carper, Johnson, Landrieu, Lautenberg [!!], Lieberman[Seriously, Go Fuck Yourself Joe--Why.
Yglesias and ogged ask about the constitutionality of the Arbitrary Detention and Torture Act of 2006. I wish I had good news, but...On the Habeas Corpus issue, the Constitution is regrettably clear-cut. Article I, s.9:The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be...
A full list of the Senators who have disgraced themselves and their country by removing any meaningful constraints on the President's ability to detain and torture anybody at his whim.
Crooked Timber recently had a post asking what would have happened had the northern framers refused to go along with a Constitution that protected slavery. To posit a counterfactual at.
A few baseball notes: As a commenter notes, Billy Beane has somehow won another division title, not only with a low payroll but with their ace starter limited to 34 innings, their putative star young shortstop injured most of the year and hitting like Angel...
Shorter Jonah Goldberg: Remember, it's not a lie...if you believe it. I can't decide what's more incoherent; Goldberg in torture, or Reynolds on leaks. (Actually, in a way, Reynolds' position.
Wow, Marty Peretz really is a piece of work. First, you get the Peretz attempt to be witty ("It is true that for a few years in recent times I.
Heh. Indeed.My favorite, I think, is this one. Yeah, those who claimed there would be a "quagmire" in which Iraq descended into civil war while huge numbers of troops remained in Iraq in 2006 with no end in sight sure look stupid now!
"Terrorism policy, terrorism schmolicy--who does his socks?"Michael Lewis' much-discussed book Moneyball has, I think, often been misunderstood. It's most often discussed as being about statistical analysis, or disdaining speed for.
Shorter Dan Riehl: This picture of the professor and his wife proves that he must have been--just like several other people--lying about the racism of a guy who admired the.