Digby asks: “Can somebody explain to me why everyone is assuming that Bush is going to be defeated in the Supreme Court on the Guantanamo and Padilla cases?” And, granted, predicting how O’Connor will vote in a given case is a fool’s game. The best reason for this perception, though, is the consistent thread that runs […]
Kevin Drum is tentavively, sort of predicting that maybe the Dems might take back the house. Then he has the audacity to say “you heard it here first.” Obviously, he’s delinquent i
Let’s be frank, the Reagan worship is getting annoying. I know it’ll run its course eventually, and I have to be patient. Last night I was at the gym, and Tim “I don’t know whe
The incomparable Bob Somerby notes many embarrassingly false and/or stupid comments from Tim Russert’s appearance on Larry King this week, but I’d have to say that this is the best: RUSSERT: One other political point: The Republicans achieved control of the United States Congress for the first time in 70 years, of both houses, under Ronald Reagan. […]
More or less, I’m with Rob. I make no general effort to hide my views and persuasions, although I try to avoid establishing myself as a representative of one particular political tradition. So i
Ben Shapiro wrote a book. The book says that liberals are bad, and are indoctrinating the youth of this country. Bill Buckley, David Horowitz, Dinesh D’Souza, John LeBoutillier, and others have
Maybe Matt Stoller has a point after all. The generally excellent Kevin Drum has a very strange post defending Reagan kicking off his campaign in Philadelphia, MS. As Drum half-concedes several times, it’s an extremely unconvincing argument: 1)I’m not sure what Dukakis doing the (vaguely) same thing proves in the first place. It shows that Dukakis was […]
Kerry leads Bush 51-44, 48-42-4 with Nader. The news isn’t all good; Kerry is tied in Wisconsin and behind in Missouri. On the other hand, he’s leading (only within MOE) in Ohio, and I thi
Matthew Yglesias distills some of the discussion on the torture memo. Obviously, this is troubling for two reasons. First, the administration is apparently doing its darndest to figure out how to leg
The general makes a plea re: CNN’s “news” coverage.
Jesse Taylor links to Bill O’Reilly’s interview of Ann Coulter. I actually read it, exposing myself to Coulter’s drivel for the first time in years. It reads like a parody of RNC
Well, not really. Not all of them. Not all the time. I refer to recent flare-up of a discussion about the positive/negative rights distinction. This was started by the esteemed Professor Volokh (who,