FOE:Hessia’s education minister Karin Wolff has recently drawn attention for proposing that school biology lessons include the biblical creation story. Now she has drawn attention by outing herself as gay. All too many politicians pander to creationists; and some out themselves. But it’s pretty rare, I’d...
I had been planning to write a longer post on Ezra Klein's "anti-values" column from last week, but after reading Hilzoy, I find that I pretty much agree with everything.
6 CA upholds the warrantless wiretapping program 2-1...on standing grounds. Great; the prefect ruling for the age of Yoo. The secrecy of the arbitrary executive insulates even the illegal actions.
Of limited interest to those of you who aren't constitutional scholars and/or social scientists, but since I've had to read way too much of this literature thought I'd let you know that X. Trapnel makes the case effectively.
Many bloggers have already taken whacks at the non-argument, made by Alan Dershowitz and recycled by Marty Peretz, that the Libby conviction was a political conspiracy by conservative Republicans against.
To follow up on what Thoreau says here, it's remarkable that people like Ignatius fail to even consider the possibility that Americans won't just "pull together and take appropriate steps.
Shorter Judge Patricia Joyce: let's control women's reproductive lives right down to the position in which they give birth. From the Kaiser Daily Women's Health Policy Report: Cole County, Mo., Circuit Court Judge Patricia Joyce on Tuesday issued a temporary restraining order blocking implementation of a...
Poor, poor Washington, D.C. Stuck under the thumb of the Federal government and unable to stretch its independent legs.Washington, D.C. is the city with the fastest HIV/AIDS rate in the.
Read Gene Healy's fantastic post on conservatives and Presidential power. No principles, not even bad, historically and constitutionally indefensible ones.
Friday Cat Blogging... Starbuck and Nelson
The Reds are quite terrible, but fortunately the Giants are also terrible. 6-3 for the Redlegs. Random observations:I go to a game with Barry Bonds, Ken Griffey Jr., and Adam.
It really does become harder to believe that Islamic fundamentalism is the dire existential threat of the day when it becomes clear that, just a few years ago, the people.