Paperwight and Mark Kleiman are, of course, correct: the President's bizarre invocation of Dred Scott is about abortion. Lest you think this is a reach, let's turn it over to Nino, in his dissent in Stenberg v. Carhart (the case that struck down Nebraska's D&E abortion statute for not...
Author: Scott Lemieux
The best line of debate coverage, I must concede, is from Sully: Bush promised at one point that he'd be more "facile" in future. That's going to be a hard promise.
I just hope Atrios is right. I think Kerry did what he needed to do, but as I said below he let too many distortions lay out there. It's probably correct.
Bush throws out the distortions on the $87M vote and the "global test," and Kerry ignores it. Jesus Christ. And now Bush is claiming, again, that inspections and sanctions didn't work with Saddam. If Kerry doesn't hit this out of the park...
Fortunately, Yglesias offers the appropriate analysis of swing-state supporters of my least-favorite conservative vanity candidate so I don't have to.
Even former Bush sycophants are deserting--Andrew Sullivan, Howard Fineman, Mickey Kaus. But I was shocked to see that the paper of choice for the complacent mid-right, The Seattle Times, had endorsed Kerry:.
Against my better judgment, I used Kernell and Jacobsohn's The Logic of American Politics for my course on American political history. I wasn't crazy about it in my perusal, but it's recommended by scholars I respect who teach a similar type of course, so I thought...
I don't have much to add to Rob's able attack on the laughable attempts of Cheney to spin the Duelfer report. I would like to emphasize that utter worthlessness of.
What the fuck is he doing out there? On the other hand, every inning an already slagged Yankees bullpen throws can only be good...
The estimation quiz was fun. Despite managing to guess Tony Benn's age, I couldn't best Rob: 36%. I'm really, really bad at estimating weights and distances (and when did they add seats to the House of Commons--it was 651 fairly recently, I thought....). I took...
Well, that was a tough day. But it was poignant to be at Shea for such a sad, momentous day: the retirement of Todd Zeile. Every time between innings, when.
A list of superb choices from the Poor Man. (Although I must admit to liking pretentious Latin phrases.) However, I would like to reiterate that any such list absolutely demands.