"I don't understand why people used to call it 'quartering' when your body ends up in five pieces. I guess they didn't consider the head or the chest to be very important in the Middle Ages."
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Via Jason Sigger's comment feed in response to Rob's rant about progressive defense policy, Dick Destiny draws our attention to an interesting comparison: For 2011, “[more] than $2 billion will.
In my experience, almost any discussion (including this one) of "originalism," somebody will bring up a distinction between "original intent" and "original meaning." This argument was made prominently in Robert.
This is an interesting and perhaps unintended consequence of the legal challenge against California's Proposition 8. The 9th Circuit panel considering the appeal to Prop 8's (un)constitutionality sent (part of) the case back to the California Supreme Court to determine who has standing under California...
This is Noon's department, but any last shred of "scientific" justification for the autism/vaccine connection is dead: The first study to link a childhood vaccine to autism was based on.
Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann at the New America Foundation are keeping one of the most useful datasets on drone strike fatalities that I know of. They've been tallying reports.
As if to provide a perfect example for Dahlia Lithwick's demonstration of the superficial and selective nature of Tea Party reverence for the Constitution, Steve King has decided to open the new Congress by introducing a flagrantly unconstitutional law. And by "unconstitutional," I don't mean...
I put the word "slow" in the title of the course with the unsatisfactory title because it's defining feature of menace: if something is stationary, it's unthreatening; if something is.
Alomar was a slam dunk once the idiot "first ballot" convention was dispensed with, and his name was on 90% of the ballots. Blyleven's election (79.8%) is a bit of.
is undemocratic and evil, unless it suits your agenda. Both houses of Congress tweak their rules on the first day of a new session. The rule changes for the 112th Congress, while not revolutionary, are more sweeping than usual. In the Senate, the Senator Tom...
In pointing out that it's hard to square Antonin Scalia's assertions that the 14th Amendment provides no protection for gender equality with the rest of his jurisprudence, I didn't even.
Apologies for my recent light blogging, as I was home for the holidays. To cap it off, today the fine folks at Delta in their eternal wisdom saw fit to.