I haven't been as genuinely appalled by song use in a TV ad since the Wrangler jean commercial a few years back that combined a waving American flag with the line "Some folks are born to wave the flag," then cut away before the "It...
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John Conryn is currently on the Senate floor repeating arguments made by Democratic Senators during the Clinton administration that judicial nominees should be let out of committee. It would be.
Iocaste makes a good point about the nature of the error that produced the Newsweek scandal. The wingnutosphere is taking a page out of the playbook that was used by.
Con: Shorter Glenn Reynolds: Freedom of the press is a good thing, so long as it doesn't involve any information that reflects poorly on the foreign policies of (Republican) Presidents. Besides, freedom of the press isn't as important to western culture as not being "squeamish"...
An intriguing development in Canadian politics. With the Liberal government hanging by a thread, key Conservative Party founder and leadership runner-up Belinda Stronach has defected to the Liberals and will.
Frequent commenter MJD recently noted that churches that engage direct partisan advocacy are acting illegally. Julia notes that some members of Congress (including the member of the district where the.
I know that the music they play at the gym pretty much sucks by definition, but isn't the Goo Goo Dolls covering Supertramp bad rather beyond the call of duty? And I was also shocked and appalled that they were playing Tal Bachman and Our...
I think Matt and Praktike are missing the point regarding the sinking of an USN aircraft carrier in a conflict over Taiwan. I seriously doubt that the Chinese military leadership.
Just in case you didn't see the link in the comments on Rob's first Kurtz post below, the Kaplan piece in The Atlantic that (in part) inspired Kurtz' latest bit.
As you well know, I have always made an effort to be as fair-minded as possible toward those who make irredeemably poor judgments about politics and aesthetics. In this spirit, I would like to follow up my earlier contempt for Bloody Sam Huntington with the...
"“There’s one thing I don’t understand. The thing that I don’t understand is every motherfucking word you’re saying.”- The LimeyVia Matt Yglesias, this post is worthy of a couple thorough.
Granholm v. Heald, which the Supreme Court handed down today, has an interesting lineup: 5-4, with Kennedy/Ginsburg/Souter/Scalia/Breyer in the majority. (I wonder how often, if ever, a majority opinion has.