Light blogging as I ferry the visiting family around NYC (and, really, who's reading now anyway?), so happy Christ/ukah tomorrow to all of LGM's readers and critics!
Author: Scott Lemieux
In one of the least surprising developments is history, an Alito memo in which he argued that Roe v. Wade should be overturned has been released:Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito.
One of the things about writing for one of the 10,000 most popular blogs on the intarweb is that--in addition to the predictable crates of panties, requests for autographs, marriage.
For a hockey fan, the Olympics can actually provide something useful: an equivalent to soccer's World Cup. The level of hockey in Salt Lake in 2002 was incredible, showing what a game that had grown logy could be, and culminated in a terrific final game,...
Brad DeLong notes that the National Review now has an online archive, which is going to do some serious damage to the "conservatives have always been liberals" narrative favored by.
According to the press conference being held now by the mediator, if I understand it correctly, the union leadership in the NYC transit strike will recommend a return to work.
I think it's worth noting the implications of believing that the President has the inherent authority to trump legal requirements during wartime, and then applying this claim to the unendable "war on terror," whether this manifests itself in indifference to or active support for effectively...
Eric Muller has an interesting finding with respect to Concerned Alumni for Princeton, the group whose concern was that women and minorities would ruin campus life and make it harder.
Like Roy, I had an uneventful day today, but I will be venturing into Manhattan tomorrow, and will also have to go in Friday because my parents are in town..
Predictably, Glenn Reynolds jumps on the silly and utterly beside-the-point "but Bill Clinton did it!" bandwagon with both feet, while equally predictably being dishonest enough to conflate the crucial difference between Clinton's rhetoric and Bush's policies. He's as constant as the tides; you have to...
The latest straw being grasped at by those who seek to defend the legality of the illegal will be one of the most pathetic moves in the wingnut playbook: "Bill.
A commenter asked me what I thought about Orin Kerr's analysis of the legality of Bush's wiretaps. Kerr is a serious scholar, and I think his argument deserves a fair.