Given the consistent and pronounced difference between Fox News polls and all other reputable polls, and the general….proclivities of the Fox News crew, I’ve long suspected they’ve had their foot on the scales, so to speak, in their presidential polling. I’ve never really had any notion of exactly how they might be doing it, though. […]
Category: General
Anyone with a sick fascination with Fox News or a broken remote control knows that Sean Hannity says a lot of things, and a pretty significant number of them aren’t true. To assert baldly that I
Nick Kristof’s column today is very good, and by my estimation right on just about all counts. As an added bonus, it contains almost no direct or indirect references to the author’s darin
A particularly silly post by Josh Chafetz getting into a lather over an accurate letter sent out by the Kerry campaign about an idiotic Hair Club For Growth ad being featured on George Bush’s website. 1)The Kerry campaign’s email is, in fact, accurate. Pictures of Adolf Hitler are included in an ad called “The Many Faces […]
I lied earlier–Charles Pierce’s comments at Altercation are highly necessary: I’ve made peace with the fact that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court once served the cause of whit
This morning, Glenn Reynolds had seven spontaneous involuntary orgasms. Of course, the story tells us nothing new, as the contacts involved seem just about what the 9/11 Commission has suggested. Let
The fine folk at The Rittenhouse Review offer us a meaningful choice in this election year: the best ADA in Law & Order history. The answer, of course, is “Jill Hennessy.” I agree that Rohm is the worst, although revisionist viewers have tended to airbrush Angie Harmon’s awfulness. (And at least my grandmother probably couldn’t burn Rohm’s […]
Atrios’s instincts are right on all counts–Scalia is correct, and that is scary. To provide the background, the decision today in Blakeley is an extension of the Court’s 2000 decis
A great question, and one of several great lines from the new Wilco album, but you have to hear it in the context of the song to get the full impact. “Wishful Thinking” is probably my favo
Another interesting post by Cass Sunstein, guest-blogging at Volokh. I think his insight is correct and very useful. It becomes particularly clear if you look at a constitutional system like Britain, where there are unwritten norms with clear constitutional force, such as the non-confidence vote. The Basic Laws of Israel are another good example of what […]
Well, I just had my first blogger-eaten post. Dammit. 20 minutes I’ll never get back. Here’s the thrust of it: Atrios is right (as usual). The obsessive handwringing about VP selections (
A new low from Zell Miller “Democrat” Mickey Kaus. The good news is that Count Hackula expressed a progressive political sentiment for the first time since the Nixon Administration.