Matt Yglesias has (justly) come under fire for his recent posts arguing against civil rights protections for gay people on the basis of conservertarian bromides that weren't persuasive when the Supreme Court used them to strike down maximum hours laws in 1905, and for his criticism of...
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Erik asks in the comments if Rehnquist's nature was known when Nixon appointed him. As it happens, John Dean wrote a good book on the subject. Essentially, Rehnquist was a last-minute.
Paperwight makes a good point in the discussion of Dave's Ann Coulter post. It makes perfect sense for Coulter to recycle stale anecdotes from Reagan-era Michael Medved columns, because this will still seem fresh to a.
One of the most amusing pathologies of wingnut cranks is their unyielding conviction that Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic nominee in 2004, despite the facts that 1)she repeatedly said she wouldn't run, and 2)no constituency within the party who wanted her to run. Then,...
About Obama, I have little to add to the blogger consensus; at least as it sounded on the radio, it was great. Ever the glutton for punishment, after Reagan's speech I watched.
"D-Fence!" "D-Fence!" "Extended warranty? I can't lose!" "Ayn Rand's philosophical genius is eclipsed only by Ann Coulter!" This last category, which Moe Sislak ("that's right--he's a surgeon!") didn't reach, is.
This site's devoted readers (if any) will have noticed a relative absence of the ballast I usually provide to this blog, because of a trip to NYC to seek housing. I was only able to fly Jet Blue on the way out, unfortunately. The cost...
The best poll yet at the Rittenhouse Review: Who is worse, the more offensive, odious, or objectionable, and limit your thought process not to the inexplicably popular, "Mad About You?" Helen.
The interesting things about dissertation defenses is, no matter how they turn out you'll want to get drunk afterward...
The grocery store I frequent most often has an ad for the egregious "Fox and Friends" on the mechanical cart. Apparently because it's not quite disingenuous enough, they abjure the "fair and balanced" slogan (although there is a "we report, you decide" in the bottom corner.)...
Roger Ailes recently pointed out an embarrassingly stupid op-ed piece by Wan Julliams, in which he complained about how the vacuous lip service with no changes in policy whatsoever offered.
Brad DeLong has a nice post comparing Ehrenreich in 2000 and 2004. I'm always amused to be reminded some classic Naderite tropes, such as the fact that a conservative justice.