I generally respect Ramesh Ponnuru, but his assertion that Sotomayor is "Obama's Miers" is just appalling stuff, and is a classic example of the double standards that Sotomayor is likely to be subjected to. The comparison is indefensible on its face; Sotomayor's formal qualifications are as...
IB explains, saving you the trouble of listening to them throughout the process:Extremism Activism Results-orientism Lack of Merit (due to being Hispanic a woman an "affirmative action hire") Non-Judicial in.
One problem with pointing out that if torture and preventative detention are such nifty tools in the fight to keep Americans "safe" why aren't we using them against common murderers,.
A few random thoughts/links about the big news you may have already heard about, Obama tapping Sonia Sotomayor as his first pick:It's a good, solid pick. Not a home run like Karlan would have been, but I also don't think she'll be another Breyer; I see...
Good Christ, the idiocy is flowing like wine this morning from the right. It's hardly surprising that right-wing bloggers can't tell the difference between the argument that a) North Korea.
Last week I spoke with Vanda Felbab-Brown of Brookings about gangsters, pirates, insurgents, and weak states. Here we talk a bit about the violence of the Mexican drug cartels:Vanda also.
Not that anyone expected otherwise, but it remains unfortunate. I do suspect, though, that there's at least some political positioning going on here, emphasizing the moderation of even pretty liberal picks. Wood, in particular, seems definitely better than Breyer, and has a more liberal record than...
The Only Championship Team I Will Ever Cheer For won its only championship 20 years ago today. (The last remaining member of the team hung it up this year too.).
A writer for the Weekly Standard begins with the premise that opposition to same-sex marriage is not always motivated by anti-gay bigotry or fundamentalist nonsense. He then goes on to.
Ronald Reagan received well-deserved scorn in 1985 for visiting Kolmeshöhe Cemetery, where several dozens of SS members were buried; even so, the circumstances of that visit could at least be rendered moderately sensible, given the incompetence that preceded the trip in the first place (e.g., Michael...
...to go after a fraudulent religion just because it comes from the United States:The Church of Scientology's French branch went on trial on Monday on charges of organised fraud, in.
Performance this year notwithstanding, this is a beautiful picture for any Mariner fan: