This is pretty cool, from Rolling Stone via Political Animal: Joe Biden: I was in the Oval Office the other day, and the president asked me what I would do about resignations. I said, "Look, Mr. President, would I keep Rumsfeld? Absolutely not." And I turned to Vice...
I lied earlier--Charles Pierce's comments at Altercation are highly necessary: I've made peace with the fact that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court once served the cause of white supremacy.
This morning, Glenn Reynolds had seven spontaneous involuntary orgasms. Of course, the story tells us nothing new, as the contacts involved seem just about what the 9/11 Commission has suggested. Let's.
The fine folk at The Rittenhouse Review offer us a meaningful choice in this election year: the best ADA in Law & Order history. The answer, of course, is "Jill Hennessy." I agree that Rohm is the worst, although revisionist viewers have tended to airbrush Angie Harmon's awfulness....
Atrios's instincts are right on all counts--Scalia is correct, and that is scary. To provide the background, the decision today in Blakeley is an extension of the Court's 2000 decision Apprendi v. New.
For no particular reason, I'm taking the Beltran to Houston deal pretty hard.
A great question, and one of several great lines from the new Wilco album, but you have to hear it in the context of the song to get the full impact. "Wishful Thinking" is probably my favorite track so far from the new album, although at...
Gadflyer on Hitch on Moore. Getting through Hitchens can be a trial, but it's worth it for the Gadflyer commentary. Going to see F-911 early tomorrow afternoon, will relate impressions, as I'm.
Another interesting post by Cass Sunstein, guest-blogging at Volokh. I think his insight is correct and very useful. It becomes particularly clear if you look at a constitutional system like Britain,.
Well, I just had my first blogger-eaten post. Dammit. 20 minutes I'll never get back. Here's the thrust of it: Atrios is right (as usual). The obsessive handwringing about VP selections (like Yglesias and Klein on Gephardt, for example) is unnecessary and counterproductive. The VP matters very...
A new low from Zell Miller "Democrat" Mickey Kaus. The good news is that Count Hackula expressed a progressive political sentiment for the first time since the Nixon Administration. The bad news is that he uses transparently fake anti-misogyny.
Reluctant as I am to disagree with both Atrios and my co-bloggers, I think Yglesias is pretty clearly right here: ...as I've been discovering, Washington insiders not on the AFL-CIO payroll.