She may have already been at the top of my short list, but this is a strong point in her favor:[via]
Lots of people are still wasting their breath arguing about how effective torture may be. Now, Joshua Tucker of the Monkey Cage is ruminating about the ethical responsibility of social.
Two good posts from the XX factor about the anti-Sotomayor smear campaign. First, Bazelon explores the obvious double standards in the criticisms of Sotomayor's temperament. (See also here.) Second, Lithwick.
This from mrv is worth highlighting:The recent articles focusing on the absence of memorable language from Souter's opinions to a certain extent missed that there are other measures of good.
I've seen in several places that Souter, while an admirable justice, didn't produce a lot of memorable quotes. I suppose this is true. But his coruscating demolitions of the Rehnquist.
I'm hosting a book salon and discussion with Ben Page, a co-author of Class War? What Americans really think about Economic Inequality, starting right now at firedoglake.
At the recent conference I attended on how Web 2.0 is altering the US political scene, the keynote speaker Richard Rogers, presented this video, which defines politics even more broadly.The.
The neo-secessionist resolution that passed 43-1 indeed tells us a lot about the current Southern politics that currently dominate the Republican Party, none of it good (although some of it.
