A quick note to pass on while I sit here in the tiny (but free-wireless equipped) terminal:When discussing the various gross irrationalities and inequities of the election system, I think it's important to note that the system is a scandal whether or not it can...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Like Rob, I will be spending much of June out of town before returning to the teaching grind in July. After spending this weekend in Vegas with my colleagues, I.
Interesting:An abortion rights group Tuesday submitted more than twice the number of the signatures needed to hold a statewide vote in November on whether to repeal South Dakota's ban on.
Wow, what a surprise that an "Online Integrity" campaign spearheaded by Josh Trevino would turn out to be a complete farce. [Details of Goldstein's scumbaggery here.) And, of course, this is even less surprising if you just look at how the thing was written:Persons seeking...
George Bush's drive to consolidate power and squelch dissent from dissenting professionals in the civil service got a boost today, as his appointment of Alito paid immediate dividends:The Supreme Court.
Shorter Marshall Wittmann: Containment cannot possibly work with Iran, because their "leader" (who doesn't actually control Iranian foreign policy, but never mind) isn't a modest, entirely rational leader who never.
Responding to my point in comments that it was ridiculous to claim that the U.S. "established" a democratic government in Iraq, because (in addition to the fact that there hasn't been a succession under the new Constitution) the state didn't have any substantial coercive capacity,...
Becks points to this post by August, who notes another dimension to the recent run of "Prove your heterosexual masculine heterosexuality by, after you've burned your minivan, eating all the.
Shorter Verbatim Austin Bay: "This week, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki introduced Iraq's new, permanent democratic government." I dunno, I might want to wait until, say, the government had actually.
Fer Chrissakes:One of the favored ways in which the relentless and well-funded anti-choice machine is making its way into government is the "choose life" license plate scam. Part of the funds from selling the plates go to the state, but a portion also goes to...
Ah, nice to see that Big Media Matt has finally messed the hair of the night and come around to the correct position that salary caps are about putting money.
To amplify Amanda's post on the exploding of Newsweek's "women over 40 never get married for the first time" myth, Jeff Zaslow has an excellent article which further elaborates on.