Predictably, Glenn Reynolds jumps on the silly and utterly beside-the-point "but Bill Clinton did it!" bandwagon with both feet, while equally predictably being dishonest enough to conflate the crucial difference between Clinton's rhetoric and Bush's policies. He's as constant as the tides; you have to...
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Here's a question: at what level of popularity does a Governor or Senator not need to bother to run for reelection? Alex Oveis mentions the story of William Proxmire's 1982.
The latest straw being grasped at by those who seek to defend the legality of the illegal will be one of the most pathetic moves in the wingnut playbook: "Bill.
I had no idea this study has had such a long life in the blogosphere. The Continental Op, after following up on my post yesterday, read the paper (Prof. Groseclose has posted it on his website, so we can all do that if we're so...
A commenter asked me what I thought about Orin Kerr's analysis of the legality of Bush's wiretaps. Kerr is a serious scholar, and I think his argument deserves a fair.
The attempt by the Dover School Board to force their biology teachers to teach religion rather than science has been ruled unconstitutional. It's always nice to see that there are.
Don't believe me about whether FISA authorizes warrantless wiretaps? Well, you may want to ask our famously libertarian attorney general what he thinks:"Now, in terms of legal authorities, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act provides -- requires a court order before engaging in this kind of...
Kieran offers a taxonomy of bullshit-libertarian justifications for arbitrary executive power. The take on InstaCrocodileTears is particularly priceless: "Oh, puh-leeze. This is nothing new. It's been going on for years--Americans.
I had been wondering about this. In particular, I wanted to get a look at the aircraft carriers currently in the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility in Bremerton. Sadly, the.
jedmunds at Pandagon comments on some of the apparent oddities in the UCLA study on Media Bias that has been embraced by, amongst others, our friend Jeff Goldstein. This deserves a longer post and a more thorough investigation, which I may or may not get...
Two more excellent posts by Glenn Greenwald on the Bush's Administration's illegal searches. First, he finds Hugh Hewitt citing United States v. United States District Court (1972) on behalf of.
I'm a big fan of the newly controversial Ang Lee. Although I don't think it's terribly well-regarded, I think The Ice Storm is a great movie. (I actually think I.