Mickey is in a state of confusion and disorder. He has been arguing for the past year or so that, contra what appears obvious to everyone else on the planet, immigration is a bigger problem for the Democrats than the Republicans. Mickey correctly noted that...
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A federal judge hearing a case about the President's warrantless wiretapping program cut to the heart of the issue yesterday: "We're debating a rather abstract but rather vital issue. Does.
As an early convert to Ezra's Sebelius-for-Veep bandwagon, I have to say this doesn't dissuade me. In addition, the piece is interesting because--like the surprisingly vigorous campaign to overturn the.
Shorter Verbatim Leon Wolf: "[P]ro-freedom sounds more attractive than anti-slavery." I dunno, "anti-slavery" sounds plenty good to me, but then I'm one of those nutty pro-Reconstruction radicals who are no longer welcome in the Republican Party. On the substantive issue "anti-abortion" and "pro-abortion rights" are...
Yglesias makes an interesting observation, which allows me to engage in some historical noodling:Wilhelmine Germany wasn't especially noxious. It was quasi-democratic and evolving in the direction of greater democracy. Among.
Zakaria says it all:To review a bit of history: in 1938, Adolf Hitler launched what became a world war not merely because he was evil but because he was in.
Eric Muller calls an exchange between Michael Stokes Paulsen and Jed Rubenfeld about the latter's new book in the Yale Law Journal "head-turningly nasty," and Ann Bartow agrees. While I think that would be an accurate description of, say, John Simon on Gore Vidal, I'm...
Shorter Bullshit Moose: "A few random comments on a website somewhere prove that 'Democratic leaders continue to collude with the anti-Semitic appeasing left.' But what really demonstrates anti-Semitism is opposing.
In this thread, a commenter noted something I've written about before, one of the most disturbing aspects of the deliberations surrounding Bush v. Gore: Ginsburg's retreat on a footnote criticizing.
I admit it: part of me wanted to mount a modest defense of Foer for giving a blog to Lee Siegel, if only on the grounds that nobody could have expected it to be as bad as it was. And Siegel had in the past...
One of my favorite scenes...Happy Labor Day!
I'm happy that John posted the full context of Rick Santorum's reprehensible attempt to drag Bob Casey's dead father into their Press the Meat debate today:SANTORUM: He says the science.