Lindsay's excellent suggestion reminds me of the most important lesson that should be drawn from election fiascoes such as WA 2004 and FL 2000: having federal or state-wide elections run be different rules in every county is "local control" fetishism at its most idiotic. I...
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John Emerson makes a good point in the comments here, which is worthy of its own post. He argues that Kerry should have fought back against the Swifties much harder.
Ezra does a nice job of demolishing Ezekiel Emanuel's arguments against single payer. (Well, I don't entirely disagree with his arguments about how the veto-point laden American political system would.
I can't really add anything else, but this Poor Man takedown of the hapless Charles Bird really deserves emphasis. If there's anything worse than people who rationalize torture, it's those who pretend to be opposed to torture but express unwavering support for its political supporters...
Roy Edroso points us to Field of Schemes, which seems like a great resource indeed. My favorite response in the post-mortems of the west side stadium project were Chris Russo's.
Having finally read it, I definitely think that the Supreme Court was correct to uphold the application of the Controlled Substances Act to medical marijuana in Gonzales v. Raich, which.
Glenn Reynolds plays dumb:So why didn't [Kerry] release [his military records] earlier, given that this issue was extremely damaging to his campaign, and could have been easily addressed then -- when it would have made a difference -- instead of now, when no one cares...
Shorter Stefan Sharkansky: As I understand it, "Stalinism" consists of straightforward applications of clear statutes, while the rule of law presumably consists in just making up a legal standard you.
Nice to come back and see that Sheldon Silver has killed the harebrained West Side Stadium scheme of Mayor Richie Rich and his dog Dollar [(c)Alicublog]. Even for state-funded stadium.
Somerby:For the record, this has been one of the nastiest episodes in recent Times history, and that takes in a lot ground. Let’s review the paper’s grand foppistry. First, editors allowed Okrent to print a sweeping attack in his final column—a nasty, sweeping attack against...
As I've always said, there are many conservative blogs out there, and The Corner is certainly one of them. This is prefect except for the lack of a parody of.
The Supreme Court today threw out the conviction of Arthur Andersen. It doesn't seem likely that this will have a major impact on other Enron convictions; indeed, it's possible that.