The small band of people arguing that Sam Alito would be anything but a catastrophe for liberal constitutional values had very few arguments available to them, given the overwhelming evidence that he would be (including the extremely high esteem in which Alito is held by those...
Media Czech has finished his Atheist's Guide to the 2007 Kentucky Elections. I understand that he is preparing a similar document for the Presidential primary field...
The Times' Dave Leonhardt does a pretty decent job today of surveying Lou Dobbs' fact-free mental landscape (though it should be noted that nothing Leonhardt has to say couldn't have.
Hilzoy points to another in the endless series of empirical studies and professional testimonials indicating that torture is useless for the purpose of intelligence-driven interrogation. There's no value trade-off here; torture is both bad and useless. So why do Republican presidential candidates have such a hard...
"You ask for a miracle, I give you...Armando Benitez." Between the beautiful day and the Perez/Lincecum matchup, I made am impulse decision to buy Mets tickets yesterday (even with the.
Twain, 1904 or 1905:O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms.
This is kind of interesting; I open up Fox News and find a front page article on a threatening new Russian ICBM that's apparently capable of defeating any US missile defense system. The missile, a variant of the Topol-M, isn't new. The Russian claims that the...
I've been meaning to comment on the odious comments of MeMe Roth (see Lindsay and zuzu), but Professor B. beats me to it, cutting to the heart of the issue:This.
Having been persuaded by several recent arguments that mocking the earnest and well-meaning artists of the world only hurts America's youth, I can only imagine what a post like this.
As Ruth Bader Ginsburg notes, the evidence of gender discrimination in the case of Ledbetter v. Goodyear, decided today by the Supreme Court, is unambiguous:Lilly Ledbetter was a supervisor at Goodyear Tire and Rubber’s plant in Gadsden, Alabama, from 1979 until her retirement in 1998. For...
Estonia has been under assault: When Estonian authorities began removing a bronze statue of a World War II-era Soviet soldier from a park in this bustling Baltic seaport last month,.
There's been some good Falklands blogging around the interweb-tubes of late.Alex at Yorkshire Ranter has been doing some bang-up work:Myth 1: Command?Myth 2: Maggie?Myth 3: Imperialism?Myth 4: Friends in High.