Due process 6, Texas-fried Catch-22s 3. The case is yet another reminder that Althouse and Stuart Taylor were right that Alito is no Scalia -- he's much, much worse. ...more here and here.
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Shorter Ross Douthat: "I'm optimistic enough to believe that if we deny enough poor women access to crucial medical services, marginally more people will have sex in the manner that.
If you missed this segment last night, please watch. It is rare to see such in-depth coverage of child poverty: Scott Pelley really puts a human face on this problem.
...has nothing to do with "small government." But you knew that. Related, on "shared sacrifice."
There are plausible theories of free speech, and then there are the theories of the 2008 Republican nominee for Vice President of the United States, which center around the idea.
The dodging and weaving in this thread is classic. As I've said in comments, someone needs to come up for a concise term to describe “coming up with imaginary moral.
To me, the high point of academic blogging is putting out a request for insight to readers on a specific problem and crowd-sourcing a wealth of useful feedback that helps me be better at what I do than I would have been had I gone...
You may scoff, but the state of Wisconsin has saved more than $7 million. The strategy involved was "stop making things up."
Yglesias, on ROTC being permitted back at Harvard now that the military complies with the unviersty's nondiscrimination policies: I’m eagerly awaiting “guess I was wrong” posts from all the conservatives.
I'm digging out from beneath a pile of student papers at the moment -- as well as the consequences of holding the majority of my office hours at the end of the quarter, when the students are revising and can benefit the most -- so...
Indefensible. I think it's worth noting as well that this isn't the case where there's a clash between civil liberties and compelling political interests -- the number of votes Obama.
"I wonder who will get the last drop of water in the world." It's a fair question.