The grim possibility that Bob Casey could become Pennsylvania's best Democratic Senator seems to have been averted.
My position on the Senate's authority to refuse to seat Roland Burris appears to be in conflict with several of the legal scholars I most admire (cf. Tushnet, Balkin, and.
Ezra highlights Tom Ricks' post on trouble at the Army War College. The Army War College, like its Navy counterpart, employs primarily civilian academics to produce research and to furnish.
I'm sure this will be productive:A proposed resolution by a major Ontario union to ban Israeli academics at the province's universities has sparked a bitter debate between leaders of both sides over an Israeli attack on a Gaza university.The Ontario arm of the Canadian Union of...
I sure do hope that anti-choicers keep bringing up Terri Schiavo. Who knows, maybe this time the media will even figure out that the federal intervention was unpopular.
Although Yglesias rejected my appeal to write a post on the possibility of Finland joining NATO (I used the hypothetical regularly during Patterson's exam period to frame the question of.
Debates about the meaning of "terrorism" often feature some odd assumptions, including:(1) Killing 500 civilians while making some attempt to avoid killing them is less morally problematic than killing five civilians while attempting to kill many more. I suppose this may be true, but it hardly...
Erick Erickson. A lesser hack would be careful not to remind people of this great moment in circus clowndom, but Erickson is very, very special.
Shorter Verbatim Dr. Helen: "Now, most Americans under 70 apparently think that 2008 was the worst year they have ever seen economically. Yet, whenever I talk to people, they always.
Via AG, this brings some funny...
Matt points out that Eliot Spitzer has become a shill for our robot would-be overlords. Even more alarming, Josh Keating posts the graph to the left, indicating international robot density.The.
So, it appears that the comments are now "working" in some important sense, although I'm not sure we'll ever get the comment count back, or that the recent comments widget.