In an homage to the completely impartial commitment to the principle that no pundit can ever be fired for expressing views their employers find objectionable recently displayed by conservatives, I am proud to renew my eternal, deeply principled support for Dallas area sports franchises. UPDATE: ...
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"[L]udicrously wrong, Alessandra Stanley-grade wrong." In fairness to Stanley, she at least usually confines her inevitable wrongness to a single field...
Shorter Verbatim Juan Williams: "It leads to people, especially journalists, being sent to the gulag for raising the wrong questions and displaying independence of thought." Yeah, the thought that I.
In response to Jon Chait and his many other defenders, I think it's worth making a few points about the Williams firing. Let's start off by assuming, arguendo, that his comments were objectionable (which they were) but not in and of themselves a firable offense,...
Absolutely not. There's nothing particularly complex here. The DOJ has no legal obligation to do appeal the DADT ruling, and there's ample precedent for allowing a ruling of unconstitutionality to.
As gmack also says in our comments, this is correct: But as in the case of Rick Sanchez it seems to me that if you assume Williams has been doing.
While Ginni Thomas probably has the Bob Packwood award for the "creepiest act of communication from a conservative to hit the news this week" locked up, it must be conceded that Todd Seavey gave it a strong effort: Especially priceless: Jonah's peals of laughter after...
NPR fires Wan Juilliams over anti-Muslim comments. I would like to think that this will get Williams to reconsider whether he wants to waste what was once some real journalistic.
Stephanie Carvin has a long follow-up to my critique of her earlier explosive weapons essay at Duck of Minerva. She provides a lot of interesting history and legal analysis, but.
Well I'll be damned. Who could have predicted that jabbing pins into someone's chest to stimulate the flow of magical energy just might be dangerous? Oh, well. At least we now have evidence that acupuncture occasionally produces measurable results.
I see no reason why this needs to go back to Texas.
Oh, great: A textbook distributed to Virginia fourth-graders says that thousands of African Americans fought for the South during the Civil War... Slaves were totally committed to the Confederate cause,.