Publius has a more optimistic take on last week's civil rights enforcement decisions, in which (unusually in a major case) Alito and Roberts broke with Thomas and Scalia and (with Kennedy) joined the Court's more liberal bloc, than I did. His case is, as always, worth...
Via Ezra, Michael Pollan has a good example of the problems that Matt discusses here. Evidently, it would be good if subsidies to wealthy agricultural conglomerates could just be eliminated.
See, e.g.(via Pandagon)
It may not be literally true that Larry Johnson is the biggest clown in the internets, but close enough. Or at least I believed that until he was vindicated by exclusive video footage!
Woodrow Wilson, speaking about the recent US occupation of Vera Cruz during his commencement address at the US Naval Academy, 5 June 1914:What do you think is the most lasting.
Ferraro:Geraldine Ferraro has a plan for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) to recoup her sizable campaign debt: Have Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) fundraisers pick up the tab.After a long primary.
I'm not surprised to see this. The fact that it was Robert Johnson and Lanny Davis making the public pitch made it pretty clear that Clinton was not interested in mounting a public campaign for the veep slot at this time (what she's communicating privately to...
I'm not one for Kennedy nostalgia, but it was certainly a moment of immense historical importance. I don't think that -- even had RFK won the nomination and beaten Nixon.
RIPFrom my privileged position, her writing had more impact than her activism and legal work, although for the world the latter two probably made a greater impact. A civil rights.
As is being reported everywhere,Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley and Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne have been asked to resign. The proximate cause appears to have been the mishandling of nuclear weapons last year, but it's fair to say that's only the tip...
Shorter Tom Maguire: All institutionalized racism ended immediately after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, because these changes to formal law both ended racism and erased the ongoing impacts.
It's hard to get much worse than getting swept at home by an Angels team without Guerrero (and not pitching Lackey). But I'm sure McLaren and company can find a.