As with the dead-on-its-feet Giuliani candidacy, I would like to think this is obvious, but apparently not. In comments, the otherwise astute Redbeard gives the Naive Nader Apologist Account of his strategy in 2000: "Yeah, while the most likely consequence of a Nader campaign might...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Via B.A.B. (who, alas, is not going to see an end to "women's bodies being the playing field for election-year politicking" anytime soon), I see that George Bush has offered.
Via le professeur le plus dangereux en Amerique, the Little Professor (who did great work during the whole Ivan Tribble thing) offers a handy guide to the writing a Chronicle.
I'm glad that someone was motivated to point out the obvious fact that Rudy Giuliani has absolutely no chance whatsoever of winning the Republican primary. The fact that anyone in the media takes this seriously is right up there with the "and Hillary will jump...
Today, the Senate will vote on legislation to federally enforce excreable parental notification laws. (HT: Prof. B.) This would offer a worthy companion to its ludicrously arbitrary partial-birth abortion law.Why,.
It's obviously good news that the Voting Rights Act will be renewed. But it's also worth remembering that civil rights legislation is only as good as the willingness of the.
"Behind all the glamour and idealism of the Kennedy administration, Nick Bryant would have us see something else in "The Bystander": the calculating, often quite cynical, political mind of John F. Kennedy. Bryant convincingly argues that Kennedy placed style above substance, symbolism over real achievement...
Yglesias, Fontana Labs, and Farrell have already dealt with this reprehensible Alan Dershowitz column, which goes entirely off the moral rails with its claim that "[t]he Israeli army has given.
I was happy to see that Criterion has finally issues a good DVD transfer of Edward Yang's magnificent Yi Yi. If you haven't seen it, get it in your Netflix.
I think we all knew where Muir was going to go.Alternative Shorter Chris Muir: Anyone who believes that Loving v. Virginia was correctly decided is a nihilist, because not believing that the precise form of existing social arrangements is just is equivalent to believing that...
I'm not sure how this article got through, but apparently the New Republic has fallen into the grip of unhinged Kantian nihilistic blogofascism:But, while all these interpretations may be true.
In justifying the very first veto of his term, which appropriately enough was pretty much the only decent piece of legislation to be passed by Congress since he took office,.