I have to admit it--I like Ken Burns's Baseball. Sure, you could get to the 7th tape without being told that St. Louis even has a team. Yeah, it's pervaded by Whig history and PBS middlebrow nostalgia until it ends with a dreary rant about what'swrongwithmodernsports....
Author: Scott Lemieux
Those who would enjoy watching the Christians against the lions so long as the lions are liberals can hear Paul Krugman debate Hair Club For Growth President Stephen Moore here.
For those waiting for the mask to fall completely away from fake libertarianism (i.e. foaming-mouth reactionaries who use token support for choice and gay rights as a way to put.
In a story confirming the fact that Bush's invocation of Dred Scott was code for Roe v. Wade, Kevin Drum excerpts a remarkable statement made by one Rev. Louis Sheldon: When he said that, it made it very clear that the '73 decision was faulty because what...
RED SOX/YANKEES Any evaluation has to start with the fact that the BoSox outscored the Yankees by 50 runs, and allowed about 40 less. In other words, Boston is a.
A great point here by Michael Berube. While I understand that acknowledging the deeply-felt moral sense of people who oppose some abortions procured by the wrong kind of pe...er, "pro-lifers" is.
Julia at Sisyphus Shrugged nails it. Really, the Times should have suggested that the book would have been better with another year or twenty of research. But, then, and op-ed page with that kind of judgment wouldn't be doling out paychecks to Friedman, Maureen Dowd, and...
I mentioned recently that to call Antonin Scalia a "formalist" is too give him too much credit. Now, in fairness, if you evaluate these things on a continuum he could.
Just to make a last quick point, I think this post at the (superb) Counterspin Central represents a fairly common misperception about the extent of Dred Scott's holding. Obviously, if the Court.
Paperwight and Mark Kleiman are, of course, correct: the President's bizarre invocation of Dred Scott is about abortion. Lest you think this is a reach, let's turn it over to Nino, in his dissent in Stenberg v. Carhart (the case that struck down Nebraska's D&E abortion statute for not...
The best line of debate coverage, I must concede, is from Sully: Bush promised at one point that he'd be more "facile" in future. That's going to be a hard promise.
I just hope Atrios is right. I think Kerry did what he needed to do, but as I said below he let too many distortions lay out there. It's probably correct.