GOP vote suppression guru Hans Von Spakovsky cries in the Wall Street Journal about unfairly being denied a spot in the FEC for such trivial matters as lying to the Senate Rules Committee and pre-clearing de facto poll taxes struck down by the federal courts. Boo...
As Vito Fossella ends his political career in disgrace, let us remember such things as his belief that the Constitution of the United States should be amended to explicitly make.
Harry Truman, in a message to Congress, 19 May 1947:National health insurance is the most effective single way to meet the Nation's health needs. Because adequate treatment of many illnesses.
In addition to his election maps, here are a few other items that Karl Rove has offered the credulous Jake Tapper:a shoebox filled with old baseball cards, the highlight of which is a 1981 Von Hayes rookie edition with "Karl's Kard -- Go Away" written on...
In response to Eugene Volokh, I should say that I'm perhaps making a slightly different argument than the one he's addressing. My point about the vote in the legislature, as.
I'm not sure, reading this NY Times story about "purity" balls, whether this incarnation of the ball beast is better or worse than the more common one, in which girls.
George Packer writes:If the fear of Baghdad and Falluja is what keeps foreign powers from saving huge numbers of Burmese from their own government’s callousness, that will be one more tragic consequence of the Iraq war.On the other hand, if it’s going to be done, it...
I remember in the 2004 Playoffs there was a trend of reversing them calls and getting them right. I liked that much more than overruling clear home runs based on.
Wow.Just . . . wow. As Thers points out, it takes an extraordinary concentration of assholery to fantasize about Manhattan needing a terrorist "wake-up call."But seriously, if you want to.
Lyndon Johnson, requesting an additional $125 million in economic and military aid to Vietnam, 18 May 1964:The vigorous decisions taken by the new Government of Vietnam to mobilize the full resources of the country merit our strongest support. Increased Communist terror requires it.By our words and...
Between December 1941 and August 1945, Japan and the United Kingdom fought an extraordinarily brutal war over control of Southeast Asia. In the larger arc of World War II history,.
Publius tries to make a case to keep him quasi-inside the tent. I do share his basic premise -- achieving legislative ends is more important than feeling good about punishing.