As anyone with a passing familiarity with the nation's op-ed pages or center-left political publications is aware, there is a cottage industry of affluent white men in liberal urban centers asserting that reproductive freedom would be much better off if states and Congress had the...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Another excellent article about the Wilson case, with a useful comparison with other cases of consensual sexual relations with minors that received much lighter sentences:But wait. It gets worse. At.
Glenn "More Genocide, Less Trouble" Reynolds, 11/11/03: "The real problem with the Iraq war is that it's (1) waged by a Republican President; and (2) obviously in the United States'.
ESPN has a good article about the appalling case of Genarlow Wilson. One thing puzzles me about the dodging responsibility game described here:It's frustrating work. No one involved believes Wilson should be in jail for 10 years.The prosecutors don't.The Supreme Court doesn't.The legislature doesn't.The 15-year-old...
Yglesias:I wonder if Jon Chait and others concerned about Wesley Clark's alleged anti-semitism feel it's a problem that one of America's leading political magazines is owned and operated by a.
Standard of legitimacy #1: "Since its inception Roe has had a deep legitimacy problem, stemming from its weakness as a legal opinion."Standard of legitimacy #2: "Consider finally the prediction that.
Kantian Nihilist Chris Muir.
President George W. Bush.
Having Benjamin "legalizing abortion was a disaster for abortion rights" Wittes as a scholar at Brookings would be like having Kenneth Pollack and Michael O'Hanlon as foreign policy scholars at.
Matt notes that there's no discernible difference between the substantive positions of The New Republic and Liz Cheney's widely and justly mocked op-ed on Iraq. Meanwhile, it seems as if Marty has discovered a new toy to play with:So why did Marty take the unusual...
It's been widely linked, but this post by (former L, G & M guest-blogger) Lizardbreath is good enough to merit further discussion: Continuing that pregnancy wouldn't have been an epic.
Honourable Madam Justice Bertha WilsonThis year's Blogging For Choice topic is to write about why you're pro-choice. On the merits of being pro-choice, I have an extensive body of work,.