This is djw's department, but the Sonics will officially be leaving Seattle. As an NBA nonfan, it's especially easy for me to be happy that the city and state refused to sub,it to the usual extortion demands from plutocrats. But having lost a favorite team (in...
Who killed whom here?
This is what I've been up to for two of the last three weeks:
If only Senate elections were every two years:The new Q-Poll has Obama has crushing McCain 56 to 35 in Connecticut. No real surprise there. The same poll also finds that even if McCain were to pick native son Joe Lieberman as his runningmate, only 14 percent...
Way back in 1978, Congress passed the Pregnancy Discrimination Act to undo the damage wrought by the Supreme Court in Geduldig v. Aiello, in which the Court infamously (foot)noted that:The.
Best wishes to Brian Beutler for a speedy recovery.
John F. Kennedy, statement on the death of Ernest Hemingway, 2 July 1961:Few Americans have had a greater impact on the emotions and attitudes of the American people than Ernest Hemingway. From his first emergence as one of the bright literary stars in Paris during the...
Jeffrey Rosen continues to claim that liberals "dodged a bullet" when Roberts and Alito were appointed. I continue to find this as unpersuasive as it was a year ago. Some.
Pathetic. (See also.) Wealthy people with excellent financial prospects and little debt get favorable treatement from banks? Fetch me the smelling salts!
To add to a point made by a couple of commenters, there's nothing remotely new about Democrats giving money to religious groups for secular purposes.
Wow, it's almost as if projecting performance among various demographic groups in a general election based on results from a primary election is completely illogical! The next thing you know,.
On the question bean raised below, I pretty much agree with the Great Sky-Blue Satan. As long as 1)religious organizations adhere to civil rights, civil service, and other government regulations.