Julia, iocaste, and Kevin Drum on the further decline of Michael Kinsley.
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Kos has NARAL dead to rights on this one. Unlike Kos, I don't think that NARAL is bound to always support the Democratic candidate. While we can argue about that,.
Lindsay's excellent suggestion reminds me of the most important lesson that should be drawn from election fiascoes such as WA 2004 and FL 2000: having federal or state-wide elections run be different rules in every county is "local control" fetishism at its most idiotic. I...
John Emerson makes a good point in the comments here, which is worthy of its own post. He argues that Kerry should have fought back against the Swifties much harder.
Ezra does a nice job of demolishing Ezekiel Emanuel's arguments against single payer. (Well, I don't entirely disagree with his arguments about how the veto-point laden American political system would.
I can't really add anything else, but this Poor Man takedown of the hapless Charles Bird really deserves emphasis. If there's anything worse than people who rationalize torture, it's those who pretend to be opposed to torture but express unwavering support for its political supporters...
Roy Edroso points us to Field of Schemes, which seems like a great resource indeed. My favorite response in the post-mortems of the west side stadium project were Chris Russo's.
Having finally read it, I definitely think that the Supreme Court was correct to uphold the application of the Controlled Substances Act to medical marijuana in Gonzales v. Raich, which.
Glenn Reynolds plays dumb:So why didn't [Kerry] release [his military records] earlier, given that this issue was extremely damaging to his campaign, and could have been easily addressed then -- when it would have made a difference -- instead of now, when no one cares...
Shorter Stefan Sharkansky: As I understand it, "Stalinism" consists of straightforward applications of clear statutes, while the rule of law presumably consists in just making up a legal standard you.
Nice to come back and see that Sheldon Silver has killed the harebrained West Side Stadium scheme of Mayor Richie Rich and his dog Dollar [(c)Alicublog]. Even for state-funded stadium.