Shorter Eugene Volokh: The problem with sexual harassment and assault is that the victims get turned on.I am speechless. So in addition to Belle I will outsource to Ann Bartow:Like most women, I have been inappropriately touched by strangers, most commonly in the close quarters...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Abu Bakker Qassim and A'del Abdu al-Hakim are two men who were being held in Guantanamo although the government determined that they were not enemy combatants. They were not terrorists.
Democracy on the march in Iraq! Human rights groups have condemned the "barbaric" murder of a 14-year-old boy, who, according to witnesses, was shot on his doorstep by Iraqi police.
Just to assuage the many angry emails and commenters demanding to know when they will get some more hockey blogging, the Lemieux/Berube analysis of Round 2 is now up. His first-round Eastern Conference analysis was perfect, while I went a mere 2-for-4. Sure, it could...
Well, how about that. It may seem counterintuitive to think that increased access to and education about contraception will prevent unwanted pregnancies and hence lead to fewer abortions--what a crazy.
Things, we should know by know, can always get worse. Keeping this simple truth in mind, we can be less surprised that Caitlin Flanagan has decided to supplement her "feminists.
It's not exactly surprising that Haley Barbour would refuse to issue a posthumous pardon to unjustly convicted civil rights pioneer Clyde Kennard. (And I should say that I happen to share a general principled opposition to pardons in many cases; whatever the question being raised...
Shorter A. Yasmine Rassam: "Anybody who thinks that women's rights have taken a step backward as Iraq becomes an Islamic theocracy with limited coercive capacity must think Saddam was a.
While I certainly don't see this as a reason for celebration, and while as longtime readers know (and I will return to sometime in the near future) I'm a tepid.
Game 7 watchin' tonight (NHL Game 7s are about as exciting as anything in sports, but if you have a rooting interest they don't actually provide any pleasure when you're watching them...Well, actually there was no tension at all. The word "fiasco" seems grossly inadequate...)...
Another one of those Bozell-lite critics of the dread Liberal EMM ESS EMM tries to turn this WaPo article noting the egregious flip-flop involved in Bush's recent demagogic rhetoric about.
Shorter Verbatim Glenn Reynolds: "Of course, if we seized the Saudi and Iranian oil fields and ran the pumps full speed, oil prices would plummet, dictators would be broke, and.