Hard to see the problem here..... Florida leads the pack in passing bills written by the gun lobby that block any sensible attempt to control the purchase and use of firearms. The dangerous folly of these laws was on display in the Trayvon Martin shooting,...
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Sharon Friedman makes a very good point about the language of environmentalism, particularly the use of the term "virgin forests." Calling anything involving forests "virgin" muddles the concepts of "old-growth,".
Balkin: One hopes that, in light of these remarks, a great weight has now been lifted from Judge Smith's shoulders. Perhaps now, having received assurances from the President of the.
Two days ago, a three-judge Fifth Circuit panel ordered "President" Obama's Department of Justus to produce a letter of at least three single-spaced pages, explaining the dusky usurper's position on whether he is bound by the laws of the United States, as interpreted from time...
Andrew Koppelman is correct that Hammer v. Dagenhart would be the most obvious precedent for a Supreme Court decision striking down the ACA: Both then and now, challengers to the statutes.
It's a crucial organizing principle of the modern Republican Party.
UMWA President Cecil Roberts embarrassed himself and his union on a West Virginia radio station: “The Navy SEALs shot Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan and Lisa Jackson shot us in Washington,” Cecil Roberts, president of the powerful union, said during an interview Tuesday on the...
The 5CA wingnut power trio.
I know my own pet favorite -- Stuart Taylor -- will be a longshot, but I'm glad that he got Richard Cohen in there. ...also, I think we can all.
The great Italian novelist (though many of his novels take place in Portugal) is no more. Sad news. A writer worthy of the Nobel.
Not to toot my own very limited horn, but for any of you all in New Mexico, on April 14, I am speaking on blogging and history at the University.
Van Jones' piece at The Nation confirms in my mind that the man is little more than a continual platitude, offering soft and spongy rhetoric in the place of deeper.