Good question: Hiring for career positions in the Justice Department was being done on the basis of the political positions of the applicants. If you don't think Gonzales deserves impeachment for this, is it because you think violating law and civil service rules to politicize law...
Via Kay Steiger, an excellent COHE article about U.S. News and World Report's ludicrously arbitrary university ranking system. The rankings, created with formulae that have little internal logic, are worse.
Bush just stated in his press conference that if the Iraqi government wants us to leave, we will leave. This echoes Sen. McConnell's previous comment I spoke of earlier that.
Born in Utah and raised for much of her life in Homer, Alaska, Jewel Kilcher inflicted extraordinary damage upon the world when she traded her anonymous life of bar-yodeling for an overly-earnest career in the music industry. Perhaps, like Monica Goodling, she "intended" no harm; her...
I was happy to see that the annual Fistful Of Euros Satin Pajamas awards were up--I'm always happy to be introduced to new European blogs I wouldn't otherwise see. I.
Apparently, Victor Davis Hanson went cuckoo for cocoa puffs the other day. Why did I not hear about this?Behold:One does not have to embrace Buchananism, to see that a growing.
Reading this reminds me that I'm a bad coastal citizen since I don't get beaches; I have no desire to go to one at all. I wouldn't dream of a vacation to the Caribbean, say, when the money could be used to go to a real...
Jonathan Gitlin has a post up on the sad state of healthcare in America. Not only do we predictably fall behind other industrialized countries in every conceivable category, but our.
Richard Hasen has a must-read article about the "American Center for Voting Rights," which was ginned up to varnish bullshit Republican claims of widespread voter fraud and has completely disappeared..
Shorter Maureen Dowd: Al Gore is fat.
Bobby Scott rules.. . . as for the rest of them, jeebus -- what a waste.
Is Condi's dream about to become a reality?The Guardian has a story today with this headline: "Bush may turn to UN in search for Iraq solution." It is filled with.