Here's a real reason why Paul Ryan's preferred economic policies are grotesquely immoral. The idea that poor people in this country need less security and protection is unimaginably ugly.
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Joshua Green is, in a way, right -- Paul Ryan's expensive bottle of wine is like John Edward's expensive haircut. It's a farcical non-story, in other words. It's bad that.
As a sort of mirror image to the centrist contrarians who erroneously believe that Roe is irrelevant because a woman's right to choose is safe, some progressives argue that Roe.
If you've been waiting for Ann Althouse to enter the debate about the constitutionality of the debt ceiling, you're in luck! If you want to learn something, well, you're crazy. And you're also out of luck, since her response is written in Vacuous Wingnut Buzzword...
The scary thing is that the administration's actions suggest that they actually believe this nonsense: President Obama’s senior political adviser David Plouffe said Wednesday that people won’t vote in 2012.
. . . President Bachmann. There's a good joke somewhere in all this involving The Turner Diaries, The Book of Revelation, and Bachmann Turner Overdrive.
Williams, Earl Weaver, and Billy Martin were all similar men: tough SOBs who didn't care if the toes they stepped on were wearing cleats or Italian loafers. I was 13 at the time of the Mike Andrews incident, and it was the first thing of...
Pelosi was apparently blindsided by the announcement of Obama's plan to cut Social Security as part of the ransom to end a hostage situation largely of his own making. Given.
Sometimes it’s hard to be a liberal Giving all your love to just one man You’ll have bad times And he’ll have good times Doing things that you don’t understand.
There are few scholars whose research I've benefited from more than David Garrow's, so I'd like to think that the last argument was attributed to him misleadingly: David Garrow, a Cambridge University historian who follows the court, said Ginsburg's situation points to an institutional problem...
The perfectionist strain in American culture tends to rebel against the idea that in a well-functioning criminal justice system lots of probably-guilty people should not be convicted.
I love this take on Kevin Smith: It would be hard to count the number of times Kevin Smith has justified his filmmaking by explaining in his Comic Book Guy.