Via Ezra, Jonah Goldberg asks why liberal bloggers aren't reviewing The Party of Death, the book we're assured is serious and non-partisan despite the fact that the elements of "death" happen to be carefully selected so as to entail no contradictions with the Republican platform....
Author: Scott Lemieux
In advance of my post about the 25-greatest-novels thing, Amanda has a terrific post about Aesthetic Stalinism (left and right.) I think there are two points that are worth keeping.
Shorter Marshall Whittman: Security threats permanently require the President to lie and break the law, and anyone who disagrees is paranoid....indeed. The Bespectacled Scooter does not understand why Democratic centrists.
Shorter Glenn Reynolds: If you pretend that "the federal income tax" comprises all taxation and examine payments in total dollars rather than percentages of income, then my claim about Bush making has made the tax code more progressive is a less obvious lie!It's also hard...
Interesting WSJ article about Luttig's resignation, which seems vaguely consistent with Julia's "he was more principled reactionary than Republican hack" (unlike, say, the conservatives on the Supreme Court) theory:Judge Luttig,.
With respect to the NSA program Rob discusses below, it is almost certainly constitutional according to Supreme Court precedent (an atrocious decision--Stevens' decision to join will not be remembered as.
Michael Luttig, the arch-conservative 4CA judge whose exasperation with the Bush administration's transparent attempts to avoid judicial review may have cost him a Supreme Court nomination, has resigned. It's not actually terribly surprising; unlike being on the Supreme Court, being a Court of Appeals judge...
My answer to MMF's question, alas, is that I think it's highly unlikely that the Dems will take back the House in 2006, even if the polls continue to be.
Reading about the recent scandal in which HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson refused contracts to firms for partisan reasons, I was wondering--in addition to the obvious violations of sound government and.
Apropos of the Pixies reunion tour that I managed to miss out on at both ends, a friend this weekend noted how glad she was that the tour was not accompanied by a new album, which would probably be disappointing and weigh down the show...
Keith Hernandez on Phillie hurler Brett Myers' tendency to get rattled on the mound: "He's not Warren Zevon's Excitable Boy, but..."The annoying thing about Hernandez's recent sexist comments is that.
One of the most misunderstood things about feminist thought is the idea that identifying patriarchy is about "hating men" or "blaming men for the world's problems" or whatever. But, of.