Yesterday, Adam Liptak's (now free!) column in the NYT addressed the question of photo identification and voting -- specifically, whether it's right (constitutionally, pragmatically, morally) to require voters to show photo ID when they go to their polling places. Law and Economics leader Judge Posner says...
Elementary chaos theory predicts that robots will inevitably rise against their masters. So why this?Here's the UXV Combatant, a new class of warship being developed by BAE Systems to fight.
If anything is clear about the politics of aboriton, it's that criminalization does relatively little to protect fetal life but a great deal to endanger the health of women. Jill.
Beauty pageant -- or, as their organizers would prefer to call them. "scholarship pageant" winners -- ripped off and denied their scholarship money.
For all of my adult life I have been plagued by the question of pant-size availability. Is it hard to find 38x32 pants because the size is extremely common, or.
If he weren't merely fulfilling one of the emptiest of right-wing obligations for seeking the presidency, I'd have to nominate this as about the most objectively ahistorical thing I've heard.
The "Fighting Words" description doesn't seem to fit Hitch's column today; he seems like nothing so much as a tired, beaten man, vainly grasping for relevance as he pushes out a few more paragraphs. I suppose he gets some mild credit for being the last man...
Jeff Rosen has a very good piece on John Paul Stevens in the Times Magazine. The central point is that Stevens isn't so much a liberal as someone who plays.
Those of us discouraged by Clinton's imminent victories in the Democratic primary got some great news: George Bush has predicted that 1)Clinton will win the nomination, and 2)the GOP will.
A double dose of Missouri news today. First the good: The state's intermediate court has held that the state's fetal homicide law, which allows criminal charges against third parties who harm a pregnant woman and her fetus, cannot be applied to the pregnant woman herself. Janet...
Well, this is a bummer.
I consider, therefore, the prime mission of the ideal American commonwealth to be the perfection of the Aryan genius for political civilization, upon the basis of a predominantly Teutonic nationality[.].