To answer Atrios's question, the constitutional prohibition on ex post facto laws has been held to apply principally to criminal, not civil, cases. Also, the implicit purpose of the provision is to act as a constraint on the state's power to punish the individual by retroactively...
Yglesias identifies a key strategy for opposing progressive change without openly opposing the underlying goals:One has to keep in mind the broader picture here, too. The right's main tactic whenever.
Not that I don't agree with McCarver about Ramirez not hustling, and if anything I'm cheering for the Tribe in this series, but how many times can they show the.
When faced with something like this, it's critical to remember that what we call "races" and "ethnic groups" are primarily socio-political categories rather than genetic concepts. Loomis elaborates, with evidence:John Svan was a Finnish immigrant to the United States. He came to this country sometime before...
The House failed to override Bush's veto of S-CHIP. Here's what Dana Perino had to say about it:The White House said President Bush was pleased with today’s result. “As it.
I'm still unconvinced.
Sonar kills whales, and Yglesias links to an interesting Hendrik Hertzberg article making the following proposal:Any real solution would have to be international, involving some serious diplomacy aimed at a new kind of arms control. The cat-and-mouse games played by submarines may have made a certain...
Ross Douthat tries to defend ineffective and inequitable abortion criminalization policies:Whereas we know that when abortion was legalized in America in the early 1970s, the abortion rate went up dramatically;.
Indeed. One of the nice things about working at an SEC school is that literally ever other team in the conference is worthy of my loathing and derision (with Tennessee.
Apparently, the holiday season is fast approaching. I know this because the number of catalogs I receive just shot up exponentially. But this year, I'm taking action and "unsubscribing" from virtually all of them -- for free -- here.
Yesterday, a Maine school board decided to allow a Portland middle school to open confidential health clinic within the school. The clinic will provide basic health services (like immunizations) as.
For those unclear on the concept of bluffing, here's Brian Cashman:But yesterday after meeting with the three Steinbrenners and other members of the Yankees brain trust, Cashman said the team.