Wankers just don't get much bigger than former PMRC shill and Art Garfunkel analogue Mike Love:In court papers filed this week in Los Angeles, Love accused Wilson, his cousin, of promoting the 2004 release of Smile in a way that "shamelessly misappropriated Mike Love's songs,...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Ezra provides a valuable service in two ways. First, he accurately summarizes the thesis of Maureen Dowd's new book (along with her other columns on the subject): "she and her.
Shorter Charles Krauthammer: The rights of adult women and children are exactly comparable. Really, it's remarkable how much more sense the GOP position on abortion makes once we get this.
Kevin Drum thinks that Alito is signaling that he won't overturn Roe. Well, I suppose this is literally true, but I think Kevin is misreading what this means for his future jurisprudence: All of Alito's statements have to be taken in the context of the...
This is not good.
As a break from the relentless Alito posts, why not a little more-MoDo bashing? It has been a few days, after all.Julia starts things off ny noting that her experiences.
Attempts by conservatives to make the case to progressives that it's somehow in their interests to have one of the most conservative judges in the Circuit Courts appointed to the Supreme Court remind me of nothing so much as Leon Kass's efforts to argue that...
I mentioned recently Roman Hurska's famous claim, in defending the hapless Nixon nominee Harold Carswell, that we "can't have all Brandeises and Cardozos and Frankfurters and stuff like that there.".
Shorter Kathryn-Jean Lopez: Why should the fact that we were staunch, substantive supporters of Southern apartheid during the Civil Rights movement stop conservatives from claiming Rosa Parks' legacy?And for some.
Quentin Tarantino's Republic Dogs...
My TAP article about Casey and Alito is up. Atrios explains the reason for Ken Mehlman's House of Fog memo (we nominated him because he disagrees with the legal positions.
Cass Sunstein has studied Alito's dissents systematically:When they touch on issues that split people along political lines, Alito's dissents show a remarkable pattern: They are almost uniformly conservative. In the.