To follow up on Dana's excellent analysis of Jim Wallis's latest bit of abortion concern-trolling, I continue to be irritated by these kinds of assertions:Without calling for restrictions such as parental consent laws, Wallis believes that if the Democrats were to alter their abortion platform, it...
Stories like this make Jon Stewart's and Stephen Colbert's jobs too easy.Larry Craig and David Vitter have just co-sponsored the "Marriage Protection Amendment" -- a law that would "protect" the.
I have to agree with Noah; the evidence for inter-service tension between the Army and the Air Force in this article is largely inferential. Shanker relates some anecdotes about Army.
There's something of a curious disconnect between two passages of Scalia's opinion in Heller:After an exhaustive discussion of the arguments for and against gun control, Justice Breyer arrives at his interest-balanced answer: because handgun violence is a problem, because the law is limited to an urban...
Great point by Sandy Levinson: If one had any reason to believe that either Scalia or Stevens was a competent historian, then perhaps it would be worth reading the pages.
If you're not reading David Axe, you should be. So what’s happening, and why should you care? In a world increasingly inhabited by the homeless and displaced, Chad is the.
So, I have received no small number of questions and e-mails in response to this post; here is a short explanation.On Sunday afternoon, Davida and I rented a car and.
After having to fight hungry dogs (quite literally) to maintain an internet connection for the last several days, we finally have reliable service. Normal blogging to resume shortly.
Yesterday, many conservatives managed to work themselves into a lather about a plausible interpretation of the Constitution with exceptionally few real-world consequences. I noticed much less outrage about the Court's opinion in Exxon Shipping v. Baker, which read the justice's public policy preferences into the law...
The only real suspense about D.C. v. Heller was 1)how exactly the right to bear arms was defined and 2)what the lineup would be. The D.C. gun ban was clearly.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who has been mentioned as a short-list candidate for McCain's veep slot, reacted swiftly to the Supreme Court's decision in Kennedy yesterday...by signing a bill to.