Last Wednesday Scott, Davida and I attended a game at Yankee Stadium, my first visit to that esteemed locale. The Braves were in town, which left me with the chore of having to cheer for one of the most unpalatable teams in baseball against the singular...
Even before the Washington Naval Treaty limited new construction, the Imperial Japanese Navy determined that it would never be able to match the USN in numbers. The Japanese solution was.
Echidne and Amanda have already addressed Ana Marie Cox's airheaded non-review of Katha Pollit's new book. One of its many idiotic points was to claim that Pollit must be kidding.
Admittedly, this has long been obvious, but is there any better example of the depths to which the National Review has fallen than that it's willing to hire Mark Levin as its primary online legal analyst? And, of course, proponents of unreguable executive power pretty much...
Wow, when I was just there the press and public were just savaging the French team; I'm guessing that's now inoperative. But between that and the Mets pummelling the Yanks,.
From Chris Clarke--The Love Song Of J. Edgar Goldstein, a loving tribute to a blogger who has done so much to bring civility and dignity to the blogosphere:And would I.
Not surprisingly, Boalt Hall monarchist John Yoo has taken to the pages of the McPaper to argue that the Supreme Court went too far in constraining the powers of the King of America. His claim that the Court "tossed aside centuries of American history"--presumably based on...
Despite the hysterical reactions from some quarters of the right ("A victory for terrorists!"; "Can't Try Them, So Fry Them!"; "Instrument of Surrender Signed by SCOTUS"), the Hamdan opinion was.
Friday Cat Blogging... Starbuck and Nelson
Shorter Verbatim Lee Siegel: "The baseball cap's insinuation that life is a game with transparent rules gets to me. Also the insinuation that by wearing a baseball cap in inappropriate situations--like indoors--you have what it takes to break the rules and win the game. And I'm...
More when I have the chance to read it, but it sounds like good news: the Court--in a majority opinion by John Paul Stevens--has ruled, 5-3, that the procedures used.
The Supreme Court announced three opinions today, but the biggest one (Hamdan v. Rumsfeld) wasn't among them. The court did rule that Texas' redistricting plan was constitutional (finding, regrettably but.