A couple of very smart people argue that--contrary to the argument I made last week--progressives should unequivocally reject Miers. I continue to disagree.The first argument comes from Mark Kleiman, who argues that the Miers nomination is not a typical zero-sum political game. The argument is...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Like Roy, I think it's always nice when the Nobel Prize is granted to someone whose work I've actually read, although I'm less familiar with Pinter's work than with recent.
As regular readers will know, I generally agree with Bob Somerby's point that it doesn't really make sense to assume that Bush places a high priority on overturning Roe v..
"Harriet Miers":LOL Nicolle said, "So Maureen Dowd is accusing you of being a superficial hack? Pot, Kettle, hello?"--get it, like a pot calling the kettle Black, their both black. Well at least Maureen Dowd is obv reading my blog.You have to admit, whatever you think...
In my previous post, I highlighted some of the defensible aspects of conservative theories of executive power. Brad Plumer explains the really awful stuff in detail. (I'm not sure, however,.
I think this post over at Balkanization is a good follow-up to Amanda and Jesse's ripostes to Glenn Reynolds:One way of thinking about judicial nominations is that, while the court.
I don't really have a rooting interest in the series--if anything I'm cheering for the White Sox--but I really hoped the Angels would get out of the 9th. What a disgrace. At least the brutal Joe West call on Cano was within the letter of...
You see, Boy George's house is robbed, and a sodomy-obsessed NRO writer reads his own projections into a headline, and...well, the joke writes itself. Unfortunately, the person in question wrote.
Atrios is puzzled about the current conservative predisposition for ever-expanding executive power: "Certainly the conservative movement wants the George Bush White House to have free reign as a practical matter,.
Evidently, any post nonironically entitled "Joe Lieberman, Man of Integrity" is self-refuting. (Integrity? Like voting for cloture so that the horrendous bankruptcy bill would pass, and then casting a meaningless vote against it to fool particularly gullible rubes?) But it should be noted that Whittman...
Normally, this kind of lowbrow humor would be beneath the always-high standards of this blog, but since Dave Noon pointed it out it should be noted that this is not,.
I don't have a very good feeling that the Greatest Manifestation of Evil on Earth will be vanquished tonight. Although they could have won, yesterday's game reminded me of everything.