Interesting; I've always thought of Bernie Shaw's death penalty question to Mike Dukakis as more of a high fastball than a spitball. Dukakis could (and did) strike out on the question, but he also could have hit it out of the park, all while staying true...
James Buchanan, arguably the worst chief executive in American history, was born on this date in 1791. The only president to hail from Pennsylvania, Buchanan stood for nearly everything the.
1931-2007. He got drunk and fell off a bridge once. Then he presided over the final wreckage of his country. If anyone ever wants evidence of what the two worst.
The federal GOP's social and economic model Mississippi, as some of you know, is one of the more than 20 states with latent abortion bans that would come into effect if Roe v. Wade was overturned. (Although, of course, as Ben Wittes points out, going from...
Ugh. At least it could have been a quick execution, not an ugly 2 overtime job. It would have been a temporary stay with a hearing in front of Scalia.
Oh, yeah.. And the final out was deeply satisfying.
We were fortunate to have Dave Neiwert in Juneau last week. The students in my US 1919-1950 course were reading Strawberry Days, Dave's latest book about the enduring damage caused by the World War II internment, and my university was able to find enough change buried...
Not surprisingly--given that it's charged with the task of defending a law that is indefensible under current doctrine--there are many bad elements to Kennedy's opinion besides its egregious sexism and.
In the wake of the Reconquista, Muslims and Jews fleeing Spain found their way in numbers to what would become modern Tunisia. A struggle for control between Spain and Turkey.
I don't really agree with the take of Garance and Ezra on Maureen Dowd's abjectly horrible column yesterday. The error they're making, I think, it to assume that these charges have some sort of objective merit to someone, or that there's some way of avoiding having...
The mass murders at VT were caused by...evil professors! (Well, some of them are professors, some are people the wingnut in question thinks are professors because he's an idiot.) However,.
James Clayton Dobson takes another step toward God's mysterious embrace today, as the nation's informal Guardian of Decency turns 71 years old. Hard though it may be to believe, Dobson.