Jill points us to this Linda Greenhouse article about the decline in female clerks at the Supreme Court. While I concede Eugene Volokh's point that you can't read too much into a one-year decline, given that this is simply another data point in the long-term...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Big Number of Blogs Matt gets it exactly right:This, I think we can assume, is the fall campaign. The idea is to psyche the Democrats out. To make them think.
s.z., writing about Mark Steyn's upcoming book, notes this curious argument from the jacket: "The future, as Steyn shows, belongs to the fecund and the confident. And the Islamists are.
I'm a little leery of the California compact to give its electoral college votes to the winner of the popular vote, not because of principle but because of my distrust of unilateral disarmament. Still, if this is what it takes to undermine the electoral college--and...
Speaking of Spike Lee, the parts of his Katrina doc I saw suggest a first-rate piece of work, and the whole thing will air Tuesday evening. As far is the.
Hackery just doesn't get much more hackish than Roger L. Simon. This is the kind of thing that happens when you don't actually care about movies, but just like using.
Although I don't fully agree, I think ogged has a point about acting and The Wire. It's a really, really, outstanding show, and getting better too. But part of me does wish that Simon had been able to do Homicide on HBO. Particularly in the...
My reaction to the decision to make Plan B available over-the-counter to women over the age of 18 was positive. And, in a sense, it still is; the current policy.
Great post by Brad Plumer on the subject of the 1996 welfare reform bill. The key point is that most assertions that welfare reform has "worked" reference nothing more than.
Shorter Verbatim Mark Steyn: "Ann Coulter’s new book Godless: The Church of Liberalism is a rollicking read very tightly reasoned and hard to argue with...Lest you doubt the left’s pieties are now a religion, try this experiment: go up to an environmental activist and say...
This gets it right.
Make sure to remember these disgraceful actions of the Alabama Democratic Party the next time you hear "Mudcat" Sanders or some other idiot go into the umpteenth self-pitying rant about.