After Iraq and massive deficit busting upper-class tax cuts and Ashcroft and Abu Gonzales and Strip Search Sammy etc. etc. etc. it's very difficult to continue to defend the narcissistic third-party candidacy that put Bush in the White House in 2000, and to continue to...
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Hilzoy identifies the crucial problem with Lieberman, and identifies another classic example of Holy Joe putting himself above the party that I had forgotten:Prizing genuine pragmatism, reasonableness, and statesmanship is.
Aspazia: "Next time you meet a "pro-choice" Republican, just remember, they might care about their own choice, but they could give a rat's ass about yours." Indeed, and this goes.
Apparently she's in a lot of trouble. And while officially I still maintain that voting for a third party is stupid given the high stakes involved, and even though I have some residual goodwill for anyone who could get Slade "Skeletor" Gorton out of the...
Many people I spoke to about seeing the Lourve pretty much said that it wasn't terribly exciting. I guess it's sort of like Citizen Kane; once a reputation reaches a.
Several of the cases recently handed down by the Supreme Court have been interesting more for what they tell us about the future than for the cases themselves. An excellent.
Maha says all that needs to be said in re: the ridiculous touts of "new" WMD discoveries by various Republican operatives:I keep reading, and find that this is not a new discovery, but an account of some stuff found in Iraq since May 2004. And...
Radley Balko's post about Scalia's Orwellian citations made me think of two points I neglected in my previous post on the subject: Scalia's causal logic is, indeed, bizarre--the fact that.
I have an article in the print edition of the latest American Prospect, which examines and--I humbly submit--thoroughly demolishes the "pro-choice" anti-Roe arguments that are so prevalent among liberal pundits.
One good thing about food allergy illnesses as compared to food poisoning: the former is excruciatingly unpleasant for about 3 hours and then you're more or less free to resume some semblance of a vacation, whereas the latter is bad for days. (The First [and...
Ugh. My sentiments here. As zuzu suggests, I'm not entirely sure what the forced pregnancy lobby and its legislative supporters are up to in LA and SD. As I've said.
The Supreme Court handed down a divided opinion about the applicability of the Clean Water Act today. I'll let my two legal-eagle guest bloggers (and environmental policy specialist co-blogger) parse.