Following up his ridiculous pre-emptive dismissal of the Fitzgerald indictments, Richard Cohen--for whom laziness is even more central than parroting center-right received wisdom--pulls the old "what's the big deal if Roe gets overturned" routine out of the mothballs. Every fallacious assertion is there: Roe produced...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Jack Balkin recently discussed Epstein and Segal's new study of judicial nominations, which suggested that the Miers nomination would be an uphill climb at best. My assumption has always been.
Kay Bailey Hutchison on potential indictments in the Plame case:I certainly hope that if there is going to be an indictment that says something happened, that it is an indictment.
St. Maggie of the Non-Sequitur:Imagine you stand in the middle of vast, hostile desert. A camel is your only means of transversing it, your lifeline to the future. The camel is burdened-- stumbling, loaded down, tired; enfeebled-- the conditions of the modern life are clearly...
It's obviously good news that the Kansas Supreme Court has ruled that anti-gay discrimination in the state's statutory rape law is unconstitutional. This would this also seem to mean that.
As Rob's recent post notes, the presence of one team that hasn't played in a World Series since its inception in 1962 and another that hasn't won since the Wilson.
I'm trying as hard as I can to maintain my contrarian stance about Harriet Miers. (And, ultimately, I still maintain it; I still haven't heard a persuasive argument, in specific and tangible terms, explaining why whatever damage it is that Miers would do could possibly...
Ah, looks like phony First Amendment martyr Judy Miller is finally being abandoned by the Times, although this would have meant considerably more had the Times figured this out a.
Media Girl notes that Target is defending its pharmacists when they refuse to fulfill prescriptions for contraception. Great. (It is nice that Kass informed us that female contraception is particularly.
World O' Crap uncovers a real gem from University of Chicago "pro-life" ethicist Leon Kass, lecturing the kiddies in Focus on the Family's children's magazine, The Good Old Days When Women Were Bound. Oddly, we have yet another nationally prominent pro-lifer, endorsed by a major...
The editor of The Economist is currently on NPR. Responding to a question from a listener about Alan Greenspan's role in the Bush deficits, he deflected it by saying that.
Roger Ailes responds to the hapless Lord Weisberg:Actually, there's plenty of evidence that Rove and Libby knew exactly what they were doing -- why else would they go to such.