Shorter Verbatim Bobo: "..it is nonetheless true that Bush has ennobled and saved American conservatism."I'll bet you're really aching to spring for that $50 TimesSelect subscription now...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Following up his ridiculous pre-emptive dismissal of the Fitzgerald indictments, Richard Cohen--for whom laziness is even more central than parroting center-right received wisdom--pulls the old "what's the big deal if.
Jack Balkin recently discussed Epstein and Segal's new study of judicial nominations, which suggested that the Miers nomination would be an uphill climb at best. My assumption has always been.
Kay Bailey Hutchison on potential indictments in the Plame case:I certainly hope that if there is going to be an indictment that says something happened, that it is an indictment on a crime and not some perjury technicality.Hutchison's statement on the impeachment of William Jefferson...
St. Maggie of the Non-Sequitur:Imagine you stand in the middle of vast, hostile desert. A camel is your only means of transversing it, your lifeline to the future. The camel.
It's obviously good news that the Kansas Supreme Court has ruled that anti-gay discrimination in the state's statutory rape law is unconstitutional. This would this also seem to mean that.
As Rob's recent post notes, the presence of one team that hasn't played in a World Series since its inception in 1962 and another that hasn't won since the Wilson administration has generated a lot of discussion about cursed sports teams. The greatest pain, however,...
I'm trying as hard as I can to maintain my contrarian stance about Harriet Miers. (And, ultimately, I still maintain it; I still haven't heard a persuasive argument, in specific.
Ah, looks like phony First Amendment martyr Judy Miller is finally being abandoned by the Times, although this would have meant considerably more had the Times figured this out a.
Media Girl notes that Target is defending its pharmacists when they refuse to fulfill prescriptions for contraception. Great. (It is nice that Kass informed us that female contraception is particularly evil, which explains a lot; somehow I doubt that any of these pharmacists refuse on...
World O' Crap uncovers a real gem from University of Chicago "pro-life" ethicist Leon Kass, lecturing the kiddies in Focus on the Family's children's magazine, The Good Old Days When.
The editor of The Economist is currently on NPR. Responding to a question from a listener about Alan Greenspan's role in the Bush deficits, he deflected it by saying that.