It's so early in the day, and I've already had what may be the biggest laugh of the day. From the Center for American Progress daily Progress Report:Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), who championed the confirmation John Roberts and Samuel Alito, plans to review the Supreme Court...
Remember Clarence Thomas replacing Thurgood Marshall? In case you had any doubt about whether the 2008 election is a high stakes one, Tom Goldstein has a GOP Supreme Court shortlist:As.
There's been a lot of fanfare recently -- and in many ways, rightly so -- over the over 200 people who have been exonerated by DNA evidence. Many of these.
Hilzoy, on behalf of Jonah Goldberg:Robert Farley: a pale, little man who hides within his armature of logical principles and arguments and consistency, like a grub cowering inside its discarded exoskeleton.I'll confess to the pale; my Anglo-Irish heritage has left me a legacy of skin that...
So, the Hall of Fame class of 2012 could potentially include Craig Biggio, Randy Johnson, Roger Clemens, and Barry Bonds. No one yet knows whether the last three will retire.
Tomorrow on Tom Friedman.
Bobo! My heartiest congratulations. (Admittedly, I haven't been keeping tabs on Donald Luskin recently, so the award must be considered provisional.)
Loomis is right -- this bit of red-baiting is pretty absurd, though not quite as obnoxious as this 2006 David Boaz piece, from which Yglesias finds support for his childhood.
In her post responding to last night's CNN/YouTube Democratic debate, and with an eye toward the GOP version, Pam Spaulding asks the question about same sex marriage versus civil unions.
Shorter Jeff Jacoby:My absurd hypothetical demonstrates that contemporary science is unremittingly hostile to 17th century alchemy.Next week: Jacoby wonders why Pliny the Elder couldn't get hired at MIT. Also: looking to have Lamarck's Recherches sur l'Organisation des Corps Vivans taught in your high school? Think again,...
Rob says most of what needs to be said about Jonah Goldberg's inevitably failed attempt to turn the Iraq catastrophe into a policy problem for...liberals. I'd like to address this:.
So I've been sitting on a post about Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan's vision for a Catholic town, Ave Maria, which he is developing in Florida (smartly located to effect.