Michael Barone essays some constitutional "analysis," which is touted by various wingers* who also don't know anything about constitutional law, except that the framers intended the Constitution to enact the 2008 platform of the Texas Republican Party. And it's even worse than this...
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Over at the Prospect I make the case for nominating an actual liberal for the Supreme Court. In particular, there's no political reason for not doing so: It might be.
Vladminir Putin has personally taken charge of the investigation of the plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and much of his upper government and top brass this weekend..
East: 1. Phi 2. Atl 3. Fla 4. NYM 5. Was I suppose on some level the Phillies are more vulnerable than they might seem; they feel like a great team and have the core of one, but this core has yet to win more...
This new Taibbi classic reminds me of another crucial underpinning of the Robert Samuelson mindset: since it's easy to imagine churning out fourth-rate center-right boilerplate at a six-figure salary for.
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Well, if we're ever going to discuss excellent potential nominees Obama isn't actually going to consider, today's the day...
Particularly if it puts me alongside the immense moral authority of the people who run Augusta National, I'm afraid I'm going to have to join the Editors in taking a.
No huge surprise here, but John Paul Stevens will be resigning this summer. [UPDATE: more from Liptak.] I hope Obama will consider that since 1916 this seat on the Court.
Perhaps. I was unaware of this trio prior to reading about them over at UK Polling Report, which is odd as I've been reading The Times' soccer (football) coverage for the past ten years. The most recent football blog entry of theirs I can find...
While I would not go as far as Jon Savage, quoted in the BBC piece as saying "Without Malcolm McLaren there would not have been any British punk", it is.
In attempting to defend the indefensible, John Guardino says that picking on Bob McDonnell's celebration of pro-slavery treason is unfair because many Confederate soldiers were not personally motivated by slavery. .