If it weren't for Rob's constant reminders about the insipid Bird Dog at Tacitus, I probably would have stopped going over there at all. I was interested in tracking down some right-wing takes on this NYT Mag piece on Kerry and terrorism, though, so Tacitus was...
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In a story confirming the fact that Bush's invocation of Dred Scott was code for Roe v. Wade, Kevin Drum excerpts a remarkable statement made by one Rev. Louis Sheldon: When he.
RED SOX/YANKEES Any evaluation has to start with the fact that the BoSox outscored the Yankees by 50 runs, and allowed about 40 less. In other words, Boston is a.
A great point here by Michael Berube. While I understand that acknowledging the deeply-felt moral sense of people who oppose some abortions procured by the wrong kind of pe...er, "pro-lifers" is politically necessary in some cases, few things frustrate me as much as framing the issue...
Julia at Sisyphus Shrugged nails it. Really, the Times should have suggested that the book would have been better with another year or twenty of research. But, then, and op-ed page.
I mentioned recently that to call Antonin Scalia a "formalist" is too give him too much credit. Now, in fairness, if you evaluate these things on a continuum he could.
Just to make a last quick point, I think this post at the (superb) Counterspin Central represents a fairly common misperception about the extent of Dred Scott's holding. Obviously, if the Court had simply held that Dred Scott didn't have the right to sue because he was...
A former student actually paid attention to one of my 10 minute diversion/rants on the use of the term "identity politics." I know because she kindly sent me a link.
Paperwight and Mark Kleiman are, of course, correct: the President's bizarre invocation of Dred Scott is about abortion. Lest you think this is a reach, let's turn it over to Nino, in.
I'm not going to try to tell you that Jacques Derrida wasn't an "abstruse theorist." The appropriateness of this adjective would be a perfectly appropriate subject of debate, and perhaps someday I'll be in the mood to stake out a position in that debate and...
The best line of debate coverage, I must concede, is from Sully: Bush promised at one point that he'd be more "facile" in future. That's going to be a hard promise.
I just hope Atrios is right. I think Kerry did what he needed to do, but as I said below he let too many distortions lay out there. It's probably correct.