"When uniformity is compromised, then authority no longer holds." This reminds me of my favorite part of John Holbo's famous review of Dead Right: This sentiment or intuition or feeling (whatever you call it) produces a strangely hypertrophic concern with what seem (to me anyway) like...
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Shorter Sebastian Holsclaw: "The decision of the Kansas Attorney General to create a new policy, exceptionally invasive of the most intimate privacy and transparently overbroad if its purpose was to enforce.
TBogg offers some choice questions for the Pervert General of Kansas, while Dr. B and the deservedly Koufax-annoited Mouse Words offer further analysis (the latter with bonus Texas coverage.) Pro-choicers are, of course,.
Justice Thomas yesterday in Johnson v. CA, the temporary prison segregation case: Indeed, Johnson concedes that it would be perfectly constitutional for California to take account of race "as part of an overall analysis of proclivity to violence based upon a series of facts existing in that...
Yglesias finds Anne Applebaum going to the nearly inevitable stage 2 of teleological arguments that attempt to justify systematic inequalities: arguing that whether patterns are innate or socially constructed doesn't matter..
I think that this part of Stephanie Mencimer's first-round knockout of Stuart Taylor's tort"reform" hackwork deserves special emphasis: Even if the tort tax were an accurate reflection of the tort.
While--as I will get around to explaining in detail soon--I still strongly disagree with him that Roe v. Wade was counterproductive, I think that Nathan Newman is correct about Kelo v. New London. This isn't to say that I don't sympathize with Belle Waring's instincts. I certainly don't think...
It's not exactly news that Powerline's Hindrocket is a world-class scumbag. But I didn't realize that he was an anti-evolution crank as well. And, what do you know, the extremely desperate.
Since some people persist in maintaining the transparent falsehood that Summers was merely "asking questions" and not offering any position, let's go to the transcript: There are three broad hypotheses about.
I've tried leaving a comment on Russell Arben Fox's excellent Zhang Yimou post, but it's not working so I'll just do it here. I admired Hero a great deal more than he did (it's quite high on my soon-to-be-published on LGM 2004 top 10; I've got...
Since even the great Bob Somerby is claiming that Larry Summers is under fire for "asking the most obvious question on earth," it seems worth emphasizing a couple of points: Larry.
I can't wait to hear the 'just so' story that fits this into the narrative Summers various defenders are spinning.