Erik has already gotten in a few whacks at Kevin Williamson's iteration of the "supporting civil rights is the real intolerance!" argument that has been recycled by umpteen generations of conservative hacks. Still, Williamson puts so many bad arguments against civil rights in one place I...
While not the optimal means of Medicaid expansion, the compromise accepted by Arkansas was a major advance for health care access. This means that Republicans in the state are refusing.
If you are like me, you watched a lot of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom as a child. Why I thought of this tonight for the first time in years,.
Harold Ramis has passed. My favorite scene from his greatest film. Incidentally, I visited Punxsutawney in August. It is not a nice place.
I understand that Amel Ahmed is ultimately on the right side of the voting rights issue, but there is no context in which the phrase "John Roberts was right" should.
As you recall, BP was responsible for a tiny little oil spill in 2010 called the Deepwater Horizon disaster. This only crushed tourism to New Orleans for several months, made.
Updated below A couple of days ago, in the course of surveying the grotesque spectacle of the three for-profit Infilaw law schools gorging themselves on hundreds of millions of dollars per year in federal student loans, I asked if being a traditional non-profit organized for "charitable"...
With legislation as complex and far-reaching as the ACA, it would be difficult for it not to have bad effects for someone, even though it's a major positive on net..
NRO's Kevin Williamson uses the Arizona Jim Crow bill for gays to lament the courts overturning segregation in the 1950s and 1960s. Barry Goldwater, who set the great precedent for.
Pema Levy notes that despite the abolition of the filibuster on most judicial appointments gridlock persists: This brings us back to Burr and May-Parker. The White House's efforts to fill the bench are being stymied by the "blue slip" process, a Senate Judiciary Committee tradition that...
Aftermath of the Rochester, Minnesota tornado, August 21, 1883. There's a whole page at the NOAA site of photos documenting the aftermath of this F5 tornado. Also, this series has.
Eric Schlosser's Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety has, since its release, garnered a remarkable amount of attention for a book on nuclear.