Roy Edroso recently did a nice job skewering this silly argument, which Prof. InstaHack liked so much he repeated it again today. Said the sage of Knoxville: Lyndon Baines Johnson was another President with a silver star and a short combat career who seemed to...
Author: Scott Lemieux
My inagural NYC post. I will note only that 1)it is blistering hot, 2)my stuff arrived four hours late, and 3)my desk was destroyed.
Like the Iraq war but more so, the candidacy of Alan Keyes is a nice way to separate garden-variety hacks from the true virtuosos. Somewhat disappointingly, many reactionary pundits and.
Dahlia Lithwick--yet another guest columnist who would be a vast improvement over a majority of the current crew on the Times op-ed page--has a good column about "judicial activism." She summarizes the conventional wisdom as follows: Together then: Liberal activist judges make law, as opposed to...
I see that Wan Juilliams is at it again, this time on that thatliberalNPR, pitching the same abject nonsense about the allegedly effective strategy George Bush is cooking up to appeal to.
One of the many great features on baseball reference.com is a feature that allows you to look up the players who share your birthday. (And to think my degree only.
More on the appalling O'Reilly/Russert interview from the typically brilliant Bob Somerby. I think the important point the Howler emphasizes is Russert's culpability. To criticize O'Reilly for being a lying bully is, in a way, like criticizing the sky for being blue, although it bears more...
Professer Reynolds, in the midst of one of several apologias for a Michelle Malkin doorstop defending explicitly, undeniably racist internment policies, claims that some photoshop satires of the book are "frankly.
I'm glad that Media Matters has posted the best clip from O'Reilly and Krugman's joint appearance on the CNBC Russert Show. Being extremely ill, I actually watched the whole thing, and.
Congratulations to the Smartest Pitcher Who Ever Lived.
A terrific post at TalkLeft, discussing a Red Cross report that--if the charges contained within it are ultimately proven to be true--would mean that war crimes were committed at Guantanamo. One.
Anderson v. King Sims--the case discussed by Dave below--can be read in its entirety here. It's actually worth reading. It's lucid and relatively short. Progressives should familiarize themselves with this and.