Depressingly, the "because having a bare majority in one house of Congress was not enough to entirely strip the executive branch of its powers, the Democrats are equally responsible" routine being trotted out by Nader-exculpating voters here. I guess we need to return to Jon...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Ah, yes, nice to see the Rockies accomplish what the BoSox couldn't. Even a bug turned into a feature, as the fact that TV audio wasn't working at the gym.
Shorter Dick Cheney: I belong to the branch of government that, being not something that can be created by any "Constitution," is beyond any standard of law or morality....a valuable.
Saint Ralph:Ralph Nader says he is seriously considering running for president in 2008 because he foresees another Tweedledum-Tweedledee election that offers little real choice to voters.And the problem is, given his asceticism he'll never sidle up to the bar, flag the bartender, and order the...
I have a post over at TAPPED noting that Kennedy's opinion in Carhart II was a "gaffe" in the Kinsley sense of telling the truth. And in this case, the.
Holbo on the range of acceptable debate among the Bealtway elite and its implications for assertions about whether parties have "new ideas" and "vigorous debates":Let’s take it from the top:.
Amazingly, the appalling Scottsboro Boys/Duke analogy has reared its ugly head again in the pages of the nation's most prestigious clearinghouse for irrational wingnuttery, with (natch) a hearty heh-indeed from the blogosphere's ditto. Let us summarize some of the key reasons why this analogy is...
Ye gods. I guess this is the "nuclear option" in all future YouTube wars...by the way, who is the other singer in the video?...Apparently this was widely linked a while.
To those who demand competent acting, I say "Vaffanculo!"I, for one, am happy that an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court is taking jurisprudential lessons from sixth-rate torture porn. What's.
I have an article up at TAP about the recent rejection of an anti-gay constitutional amendment in Massachusetts and its implications for claims that using litigation is a counterproductive strategy. I also discuss the extent to which normative attacks on Goodridge rarely come from any...
Matt notes that libertarians may be irrationally unsympathetic to Michael Bloomberg because of his support for relatively trivial nanny state regulations like public smoking and trans fat bans. (As an.
Rudy Giuliani. (Also remember.)Straight-talkin' Maverick John McCain. Odd as it seems to think that Mitt Romney should be considered the prohibitive frontrunner, with Fred Thompson the only other candidate with.