...makes another appearance in the august pages of the Wall Street Journal. Most of the truly bad arguments made by the forced pregnancy lobby result from an understandable unwillingness to apply one's purported principles with even a modicum of consistency. The "but would you have...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Via Alex, I see that XFL media has yet another new format. Ever the masochist, I clicked through to the site. In addition to a lot of other highly uninteresting.
U.S. District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, to her immense credit, has ruled the Bush Administration's warrantless wiretapping program unconstitutional. Judges can't always be relied on to stop lawless executive.
Jeff Goldstein, responding to Andrew Sullivan's point that reactionary bloggers were yet again gratuitously bringing his sexuality into a political discussion:Still, with this--his latest attempt to silence his critics by appealing to victim group emotionalism and then playing the implied homophobe card against me--Sullivan has...
I will have some discussion about constitutional "minimalism" later today, but in the meantime a quick note about the first case critics of this theory are likely to bring up..
Apparently sensing that Mark Levin's defense was too transparently idiotic to function even as a rationalization for hardcore partisans, and that defending Allen's racism with more racism may give away.
Some first-rate reporting by Garance Franke-Ruta, who finds that in addition to his other issues George Allen sat on the board of a company that sold a risible product, quickly burned through the capital it got through dubious connections, and ended in a hail of...
When you blog, you can never predict your reactions; sometimes posts you think will be provocative generate consensus, and post that express the most self-evident banalities generate controversy. The fact.
I would like to think that George Allen's recent bout of racist taunting (although, in fairness, who could have predicted that someone who worshipped the Confederate flag while growing up.
Shorter Ace of Spades: The only way to preserve liberal democracy is through state-sponsored racism and collective guilt. (Via alicublog.)
Atrios cherry-picked the best stuff, but George Will's conclusion (sniping at the "blogosphere" aside) seems worth quoting as well: The official is correct that it is wrong "to think that.
With respect to nutritionally unsound university dining, I note that my dorm cafeteria--in which everyone had to choose between two mass-cooked meals at a central dining hall rather than choosing.