Must-read Howler today, as Somerby recounts a grim episode of C-SPAN's Booknotes, in which Faux bingo-caller Chris Wallace recounts his very favorite episode in Presidential courage. Which is, of course, Cleveland's unconstitutional use of troops to help company goons suppress the Pullman strike. Really warms the...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Many of you may be confused about the arcane manner of commerce clause jurisprudence, as it appears that the advocates of "states' rights" on the Supreme Court will mysteriously abdondon this.
Roy Edroso notes that Roger L. Simon, author of the screenplay of arguably the most irritating movie I've ever seen in a theatre and now the blogosphere's most irritating Yoosta Bee, is.
A co-blogger asked what I thought of the CBC's "Greatest Canadian" poll, so as this blog's Canadian representative I suppose I should say something now that my grant application is finished. I generally like these kinds of pointless lists--I'm all for rationally indefensible Top 10 movie...
A poll about the Supreme Court yields typical findings: The survey found that 59 percent of respondents said they favor choosing a nominee who would uphold Roe v. Wade, while 31 percent.
This is obviously of trivial importance compared with the feeble attempts to debunk the Lancet article, but I'm glad to see David Leonhardt tackle a form of reactionary innumeracy that.
I mentioned recently the unlikely but true fact that Van Halen could replace David Lee Roth and wind up with replacements that got exponentially worse. Well, should the NYT follow Hugh Hewitt's suggestions, something similar would be the case with respect to replacing Bill Safire. Sadly,...
I know we defeated Dems are supposed to be getting in touch with what blue-state urbanites like Nik Kristof consider to be "red state" culture. But if this consists of.
Fortunately, you won't be getting yet another interminable abortion post from me; instead, I can direct you to Julie Saltman, who points out that the recent abortion rider attached to.
Digby recently made a great point about the provision attached to a spending bill to allow organizations (federal and state, but of course) to accept government funding but refuse to provide counseling or referrals for abortions: This clause sounds like something the GOP would tell us...
A question: how bad would a script have to be for Nic Cage to turn it down?
Jon Henke mounts a defense of the indefensible tax proposals being mounted by the Bush administration. After briefly defending the President's transfer of the tax burden from capital to labor.