Gee, you spend a weekend on the road (insight: gambling on horse races is much more profitable when you actually purchase the racing form. Who knew? It's always nice to make a profit at the Bellagio Sportsbook that doesn't rely solely on the value of...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Wow. In the race for the Alabama Supreme Court, the nominees are openly advancing the "let's pretend Article VI doesn't exist" theory of the Constitution you may remember from attempts.
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.
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 will return briefly and then head off to France for a couple weeks. I will...
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.
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 on Tuesday made it harder for government employees to file lawsuits claiming they were retaliated...
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.
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 meats you can, maybe lots of sausages with nice big balls of mashed potatoes and...
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.