My vote for the most unintentionally funny thing to appear on the political wing of the internets* is FactChuck admonishing the opponents of Janice Rogers Brown for using her words to imply that, she did, in fact, believe that Social Security was the same as...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Um, I think that this ends any significant debate on the question of whether NARAL was right to endorse Lincoln Chafee. The guy rolls on the first Supreme Court vote.
As Pseudo-Adrienne, Amanda, and Jessica all point out, this NYT article about the experience of women getting abortions is very good. However, there is one argument it contains that drives.
In light of the decision of the DOJ, discussed by various law-talkin' people, to make prosecuting porn a "top priority"--apparently 9/11 "changed everything" by making counterterrorism less important--it's hard not to see retrospective merit in Yglesias' contrarian half-defense of John Ashcroft. Ashcroft was a bad...
...We bring you Gaggle!...and the Editors bring you funnier Mallard Fillmore. If he can make Day-to-Day funnier he would be the best blogger in world history, but that's a tall.
I was hoping to never think again about "Ivan Tribble," but his apologia somehow manages to be even more pompous ("If she's embarrassed by your bad taste or potty mouth,.
Lawyers, Guns and Money has received a tip explaining a great unsolved mystery. Apparently, the ill-fated plane carrying Roberto Clemente which tragically crashed while trying to deliver relief supplies to Nicaragua was shot down by a SAM launched by Roger L. Simon. Studio head Apo...
Mike Francesa just played the tapes from the Yankee radio broadcast from Friday, when Randy Johnson was ejected in the second inning. I hadn't heard it because I was watching.
Shorter Jason Appuzo: The fact that Hollywood studios have made a number of fictional disaster movies in the past means that individual actors and filmmakers (most of whom had nothing.
Gee, I spend two posts setting up the British system as a model for a country that respects individual rights with no judicial review at all, and they start with this crap. I don't really think it affects the overall argument much, but I will...
In my previous post, I discussed the question of judicial review versus judicial supremacy. The reason I bring this up is to address the arguments that John Roberts made as.
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