The Supreme Court granted cert to a challenge to the preclearance provision of the Voting Rights Act on Friday. I wish I was optimistic, but when there's a clash between real rights and states' "rights," we know where the Roberts Court is likely to end...
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In a good catch by Greenwald, this bit of Petraeus hagiography is particularly instructive: He salvaged two disastrous wars, for two very different presidents. In a sense, this is true.
In the wake of an affair involving a powerful man, the attempts by some people to blame the whole thing on the Jezebel he willingly slept with are inevitable. But.
Here's Tom Russell providing something a bit more meaningful than the cheap patriotism we usually see on this day (and have seen all day from the NFL).
Arizona is a national joke. Say what you will about whatever southern state you don't like, Arizona matches them all for extremism, hate, and corruption. Have to give it credit.
For P4, as Petraeus is known in military circles, this is about the fourth high-profile book he has collaborated on. He debuted on the literary scene as a young general.
With some conservatives figuring out that being constantly lied to by their media sources isn't actually helpful, it's fun to see what happens after the popping of the bubble on election day. Dean "Unskewed" Chambers is actually relatively gracious, straightforwardly admitting his error. Then there's...
...anyway, with my usual disclaimers about how as far as I can tell being a good spouse bears no relationship to being an effective public official, I assume that as.
The current issue of the National Jurist includes an excerpt from Don't Go to Law School (Unless), which explains how federal loan forgiveness programs exacerbate an out of control and.
Since this is likely to come up again, it's worth clarifying an issue that is likely to come up as the "fiscal cliff" "gentle fiscal incline" approaches. As stated in the most extreme form by Jessie Levine in comments, some people seem opposed to any...
Assuming that Florida doesn't manage to fuck it up again, the final number are: Obama 332 electoral Obama 50.5% national Six entries took 332. Two entries took 50.8. One entry.
Somerby has a nice point about how pundits suddenly started caring about the overemphasis placed on predictions only when people hired by mainstream outlets started making predictions with actual rigor..