I saw Norah O'Donnell this morning claiming that Alito's support of the "right to privacy" is somehow meaningful. As Nancy Keenan correctly notes:Under the first round of questions from Senator Specter, Samuel Alito did not refute his record of opposition to Roe v. Wade. He...
Author: Scott Lemieux
For those of you who don't read the long, boring articles, let me briefly summarize why Alito's elevation to the court will be extremely bad for reproductive rights, with links.
To elaborate on a point I made in passing below, I'm frankly puzzled about why Matt has switched sides on the merits of filibustering Alito, which remains the obviously correct.
I thought about coming up with my own questions for the Alito hearings, but to be frank the hearings are unlikely to produce any valuable information, and so we should judge Alito on his (exceptionally conservative) record. (Conservatives are right about one thing: calling him...
Orrin Hatch: we should vote to confirm Alito because...he's a baseball fan. (I admit that it's his best feature.) But you know who else was a big baseball fan? Harry.
Joe Klein, on the other hand, does do it for a living. Klein, discussing the NSA program, rolls out his usual "let me project my increasingly reactionary politics on the.
For some reason, I wasn't terribly enthusiastic about seeing Capote. I sort of thought it was my duty to see it, but it was mostly based on seeing Hoffman, who I try not to miss if he's starring in pictures not directed by Joel Schumacher....
A surprisingly tough NYT editorial about Alito which starts well:Judicial nominations are not always motivated by ideology, but the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito certainly was. President Bush's previous choice.
Oh, a rare and welcome thing, an article about people who actually like living in cities and actually value things other than the square footage of the house they can.
Taking the war over The Shape That Hates America to new depths of insanity, John Rawls' idiot son Alec has come up with a sheer masterpiece of wingnuttery. According to Rawls--a virulently misogynst crank who claims that if you don't believe that the best way...
It is, indeed, about the ingredients. Stop at Whole Paycheck on the way home after a movie, and one can make even a Friday night pathetically spent at home watching.
I see that Mallard Fillmore is making Mickey Kaus his liberal strawman in his inevitable attack on Brokeback Mountain. (Maybe Tinsely is still permanently scarred by a past in which.