In response to the discussion thread in the post below, a couple points: I continue to believe that any justice Bush could plausibly nominate--which obviously includes Roberts--should be filibustered, simply because this would force the use of the nuclear option, which would destroy the filibuster in...
According to CNN.Profile here. To put it in crude terms, he seems in between Clement and Jones on the continuum of wingnuttery....in the midst of a dinner party, but Nathan.
...according to ABC news. Who knows, but I believe it. An easily confirmable candidate, given Bush's history, made no sense to me. My money's on Jones....w/r to Jones, from the.
SCOTUS nominee to be announced at 9 ET.For info on Edith Clement, see here and here. If it is Clement, I don't think a filibuster is likely. The fact that Hadley Arkes trusts her certainly isn't encouraging, but no plausible nominee is any better; her lack...
Some thoughts on this fine Democratic Peace post by Daniel Nexon:I share Dan's skepticism regarding the empirical tools used to confirm the democratic peace hypothesis. I think that the scholars.
Read this.Today, apparently, is Duck of Minerva day. Several readers have e-mailed wondering where part III of my China series has gone. The answer is that it is in the.
The answer is no. Grading is the least rewarding part of my job. Dan Nexon puts it just right:Still, when I try to describe what it is like to grade I often resort to metaphors involving large, brain-sucking monsters slowly gorging themselves on my consciousness and...
Odd. This is a disaster for the Republicans, because Rossi is the only candidate with even the faintest chance of unseating Cantwell. I'd rather be a Senator than a Governor.
Westy is dead. The disaster of Vietnam has many fathers, including civilians such as John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Robert McNamara. Whatever hope of victory might have existed, however, was.
In a pleasant surprise, apparently I will be going to see Willie Nelson--who I have never seen before--tonight. Plus Kathleen Edwards opening. Seems pretty promising, all things considered...
My review of the revised edition of Mark Tushnet's The NAACP's Legal Strategy Against Segregated Education in the Law and Politics Book Review is now online. (Well, it beats "my.
Exhibit Z for Thad. To each their own, but from my perspective any unironic use of the phrase "they're not antiwar, just on the other side" provides dispostive evidence that.