Great column from Coates. After bringing much-needed national attention to Rick Perry's role in the murder of Cameron Tood Willingham, the punchline says it all: Whatever one thinks of the death penalty, the accounts of those who would seek to conceal the results of their theory...
I love that Carolyn Maloney and Robert Menendez are reintroducing the Equal Rights Amendment in response to the Supreme Court's decision in the Wal-Mart case. I have no idea if.
I'm going to be on the Rick Smith Show tonight at 10:30 p.m. Eastern to talk about the issues brought up in today's post about radical labor. Feel the charisma.
My thoughts on Gates' NATO speech: It is worth noting, however, that protection of Libyan civilians through airstrikes sits so far outside NATO's founding purpose that the framers of the 1949 treaty that brought the alliance into existence would hardly recognize the mission. NATO is a...
Jon Stewart's comment that Chris Wallace was doing precisely that when he talked about Fox presenting a "counterweight" to NBC and the Times is a convenient way to describe assertions.
Matt Yglesias disagrees with my call for increased radicalization among labor in kind of a weird way. He argues that the modern economy has treated working-class people well, using increased.
I briefly flirted with writing about this, but what's the point? By all accounts, including that of the PSNI, the UVF started it, and the "dissident Republicans" shot back. Whatever. London (and England, and even a bit of Wales) is hosting the 2012 Olympics. Normally, this...
Apparently actual Republicans haven't gotten his memo about what they believe. It's all too appropriate that media members seemed to outnumber actual supporters at his announcement...
Report: 10,000 Troops Leaving Afghanistan This Year Kerry and McCain United Behind the Mysteriously Urgent Libya Mission Iraq Violence Intensifies as Talks Continue on U.S. Troop Presence In principle it.
No, not the superb labor newspaper, just a few links with commentary. 1. Dave Johnson has an interesting post up (with many links) on the NLRB decision to speed up labor elections, noting the power of recess appointments. The deciding votes in this election were Obama's...
As Ackerman says, the ongoing attacks against Libya cannot seriously be squared with the requirements of the War Powers Act, and the procedure used to justify violating the law is.
Lithwick's article about Wal-Mart v. Dukes should be read in its entirety, but the most important passage identifies the key part of Scalia's majority opinion: The law allows such "pattern.