President Brags-About-Torture has sent commensurate legislation to Congress. Marty Lederman:This is the bill the Administration has sent up to Congress. Make no mistake, the most important action has little to do with military commissions (although that stuff is certainly significant, too). Instead, focus ought to be...
Dinesh D'Souza is, I'm afraid, back. And he has a new argument about 9/11: it's America's fault! Especially them damned uppity women:He argues that it is not our exercise of.
I was planning on writing a post on Jack Shafer's ruminations about the Siegel affair, but Lindsay said everything I had to say and more.Like Lindsay, I'm still wondering when.
[Part I. Part II.]Speaking of Michael Stokes Paulsen, he contributed a dissent to What Roe Should Have Said. Although the opinion betrays a sense of humor (the first footnote notes that Justice Balkin appointing the other members of the Court violates Article II of the Constitution),...
If there really were a serious and politically meaningful Zoroastrian revival in Iran, how long do you think it would be before Zoroastrianism became the next big threat to the.
It may be that democracy is a risk in Argentina, although Nancy Soderbergh really fails to make that case in her LA Times Op-Ed. It may also be that making.
Mickey is in a state of confusion and disorder. He has been arguing for the past year or so that, contra what appears obvious to everyone else on the planet, immigration is a bigger problem for the Democrats than the Republicans. Mickey correctly noted that yes,...
A federal judge hearing a case about the President's warrantless wiretapping program cut to the heart of the issue yesterday: "We're debating a rather abstract but rather vital issue. Does.
As an early convert to Ezra's Sebelius-for-Veep bandwagon, I have to say this doesn't dissuade me. In addition, the piece is interesting because--like the surprisingly vigorous campaign to overturn the.
Shorter Verbatim Leon Wolf: "[P]ro-freedom sounds more attractive than anti-slavery." I dunno, "anti-slavery" sounds plenty good to me, but then I'm one of those nutty pro-Reconstruction radicals who are no longer welcome in the Republican Party. On the substantive issue "anti-abortion" and "pro-abortion rights" are far...
Yglesias makes an interesting observation, which allows me to engage in some historical noodling:Wilhelmine Germany wasn't especially noxious. It was quasi-democratic and evolving in the direction of greater democracy. Among.
Zakaria says it all:To review a bit of history: in 1938, Adolf Hitler launched what became a world war not merely because he was evil but because he was in.