The comment thread to this post compels me to add a couple of additional points: Pithlord's slippery slope arguments about the consequences of not providing funding to Catholic hospitals that deny contraception is, I think, specious even by the standards of the genre (at least...
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Connoisseurs of world-class, 5-star wingnuttery will be pleased to note the return of Alec Rawls and his lunatic obsession with the shape that hates America. Oh yeah, that's the stuff....and,.
"Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'."I recently took in the new film about the great songwriter (and alma mater of Canada's.
Publius has already addressed the most baffling claim in the latest in Jon Chait's increasingly strained defenses of Joe Lieberman and attacks on evil blogofascists, his argument that Kos et al "believe that any deviation from the party line--except for a few circumscribed instances, such...
While I was away, any number of conservatives who either honestly or passive-aggressively oppose gay marriage tried to sell the idea that the New York Court of Appeals' upholding of.
Nathan and Matt are 100% correct about the badness of the recent decision [actually, I think this is the wrong way of putting it; see update] holding that CleanFlix--a company.
[This article originally appeared in the July 2006 edition of The American Prospect.] The confirmation of two conservative Supreme Court justices and the passage of a draconian abortion ban in South Dakota have again thrown the precarious state of reproductive rights in the United States...
Shorter Ann Althouse: As a feminist, I believe that publicly funded hospitals should be able to deny contraception to women almost as strongly as I believe that Sam Alito should.
Elton summarizes a pathetic pro-Lieberman Los Angeles Times editorial: "It would be a shame if Connecticut voters force a loyal Democrat like Joe Lieberman to run against his own party's.
Here, for the first time, in Baltimore, home of great TV dramas and crabs. Admittedly, July with the Orioles out of town is a far from optimal time to visit, but I didn't organize the conference...I will still be dropping in occasionally, and there may...
It's about intimidation. (Note the request for the General's name; I can't imagine why he wouldn't comply!) At any rate, this kind of thing is why the libertarian position on.
Nathan, Barbara and Lindsay make the case for Ulysses S. Grant as one of the greatest American Presidents. Particularly given my conviction that the ugly tradegy that was the dismantling.