I essentially concur with Ed Kilgore. That said, I understand some of the ambivalence expressed by Emily Bazelon. Certainly, this should be primarily considered a matter for criminal and civil courts. I do think, however, that arguments that the judgment was wrong because it represents...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Shorter Verbatim Amity Shlaes: 'There will be objections [to my cockamamie idea that federal taxes should be collected by the states], of course. The first is that states’ collecting the.
Bellafonte: Because she is paid so little beyond minimum wage, she requires two full-time jobs to meet expenses that include a rent burden of $1,475 a month, on which she.
With the statue coming down and the Penn State football program getting severe sanctions but not the "death penalty" (both acceptable outcomes to me for reasons it would take another post to get into), I had a couple more points I wanted to make about...
Republicans care about "federalism" precisely until the point at which some states might have better public policy.
Look, this had nothing to do with evolution. The shooter was, of course, a plant drugged in order to facilitate Obama's plan to use the United Nations to take your.
Emily Nussbaum's instant-classic review of The Newsroom said something really terrifying: it claimed the show got worse in its 3rd and 4th episodes. Sadly, she was right. The third episode, in particular, was everything the least optimistic Sorkin critic could have imagined -- consisting almost...
And his defenses of Bush v. Gore keep getting worse. ...and as is correctly noted in comments, pace Scalia it was Bush who filed the first lawsuit. ...much more from.
What do you know -- support for vote suppression based on the vote fraud fraud is correlated with racist resentment: Unfortunately, there is a real divide on the desirability of.
At least because of fanatical Republican devotion to opposing any tax increases Erskine Bowles and the various other pain caucus scolds who don't care about unemployment can't damage the economy in the short-term. The Republican Daddy who chairs the Federal Reserve and doesn't care about...
The Obama campaign's response to Romney's whining was indeed appropriate.
Normally, legislators who actually care about improving things are at an inherent disadvantage when negotiating with conservatives or venal "centrists." Joe Lieberman can get his "get rid of something because.