Ryan Lizza claims: So the partisans on the left cheering Feingold appear to have both the policy and the politics wrong. Censure is meaningless. Changing the FISA law is the way to address Bush's overreach. And the only way for Democrats to change FISA is...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Seriously, what the hell is up with taking us from interesting, competitive games to the tipoff of 1-16 stiffs? Isn't Villanova a pretty expansive definition of "local"? If we're going.
If ethical and pragmatic arguments don't sway you from your belief that granting males an unlimited right to withhold child support is a good idea, via Ezra note this crucial.
Via Atrios (who explains exactly what the results of the Saletan approach will be here), I see that Missouri Republicans voted to kill an amendment to start providing state funding for birth control. I guess Missouri pro-choicers didn't talk enough about how evil women who...
So who's the bigger crank, Dr. Sanity or Dr. Helen? Lacking the wisdom of Solomon, I can't adjudicate this particular death-is-not-an-option game...
An emailer asked if I stuck around after The Sopranos to watch Big Love this week. I did, and while I liked it maybe a little less than Ezra I.
Shorter "Dr. Sanity" (sic): "Whenever you discuss socialized medicine, make sure you only talk about Britain and Canada, with a dirt-poor non-democracy thrown in for a particularly silly comparison. Make sure to ignore the huge differences in funding and systematic comparisons with the American system...
So today, a couple things of minor interest to the middle-class New York consumer: Went to the doctor in Gramercy. Proved that I'm irrational, because while everything that mattered was.
Sick of arguments to the effect that anyone claiming that Bush was less than fully candid in making the case for a disastrous war must be arguing in bad faith?.
As I discussed last week, most "centrist" discussion of abortion regulation ignores the complex legal issues involved. Roe v. Wade, after all, allows the state to proscribe post-viability abortions; it simply requires the state to allow doctors to perform abortions in cases where a woman's...
With Joe "Rapist's Rights" Lieberman! Who knows that all women own cars, have plenty of time and money, jobs they won't lose if they have to take extra time off,.
I don't know what to make of V for Vendetta. On the one hand, the Wachowski brothers are responsible for two very entertaining B pictures. On the other hand, after.