The defeat of South Dakota's abortion ban is evidently good news on the merits, and will also hopefully put to rest the ideas that abortion criminalization necessarily represents popular majorities. Even in one of the most conservative states, an even minimally consistent (and the South...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Shorter Verbatim Hugh Hewitt: "Senator Santorum is now available for a seat on the SCOTUS should one become available."I think this is the definition of a situation in which commentary.
A Dem House--expected, but even six months ago I wouldn't have predicted it. Great news, and with VA heading to recount the Senate is very much in play. (Bill Kristol.
Woo-hoo! With 0% of precincts reporting, Harold Ford jumps out to a commanding 700 vote lead! It's a landslide!Earlier this week I was lamenting having to teach at 8:25 tonight, but it's probably for the best to let results collect for an hour so I'm...
The sad decline of Michael Kinsley continues with this bit of vacuous contrarianism, which has been understandably picked up by jingoist Republican bloggers like Glenn "more rubble, less trouble" Reynolds..
My predictions for the election outcome are up at TAPPED. You'll see that, despite a fairly generous appraisal of the Democrats' chances in the Senate, I was skeptical of Webb's.
Glenn Reynolds is a "racist." This isn't my judgment, mind you, but the judgment of the Libertarian Jacksonian Whig himself.
Is there a more irritating genre of political commentary than that of yoosta-bees? That is, generally ill-informed dilettantes who can't keep talking about their banal move to the right as.
Kind of depressing that upstate Republicans can't make it quite as subtle as Republicans in Tennessee...
Speaking of local coffee shops, my part of the neighborhood exists at a confluence of large Croatian, Arab, and Greek communities, and a happy consequence of this is the existence of many European-style coffee shops that offer excellent coffee and good food with unusually large...
As if to confirm John's fears about a potential constitutional crisis, the Vice President has announced that in all likelihood he will simply flout Congressional subpoenas. I'll say this: better.
I was pleased to see via Pithlord that the Canadian Supreme Court has held that companies cannot evade time limits on patents by taking out more patents related technology (although.