Tigers vs. Profoundest Manifestation of Evil on Face of Earth. Let's pretend I was a good contrarian writing for Slate. Unlike a Slate contrarian, I could actually marshall some evidence. The Yankees and Tigers were pretty much even; the Yankees' better was only 2 games...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Lord Saletan triumphantly (re)discovers that pro-lifers may not be entirely consistent when it comes to protecting fetal life, and that there may be a "new" strategy that points out this.
Brad DeLong's son asks:First, neither wing of the original Federalist Party was "strict constructionist." The Hamilton-Adams wing was aggressively eager to expand the power of the federal government from the.
Amanda reports on This Film Is Not Yet Rated (which I haven't yet seen):A couple of the directors, notably Kevin Smith and John Waters, draw a direct parallel between the censorship of gleeful female horniness and the way that misogynistic content just gets a pass,...
Could the Tigers win one goddamned game against the Royals? Yeesh. The first round is just going to be a massacre.
Roy reads 'em so you don't have to. The reactions are depressingly predictable. Goldberg throws out a bizarre non-sequitur. Althouse is unable to comment, because she can't deploy the high.
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...
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.