Michael Luttig, the arch-conservative 4CA judge whose exasperation with the Bush administration's transparent attempts to avoid judicial review may have cost him a Supreme Court nomination, has resigned. It's not actually terribly surprising; unlike being on the Supreme Court, being a Court of Appeals judge...
Author: Scott Lemieux
My answer to MMF's question, alas, is that I think it's highly unlikely that the Dems will take back the House in 2006, even if the polls continue to be.
Reading about the recent scandal in which HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson refused contracts to firms for partisan reasons, I was wondering--in addition to the obvious violations of sound government and.
Apropos of the Pixies reunion tour that I managed to miss out on at both ends, a friend this weekend noted how glad she was that the tour was not accompanied by a new album, which would probably be disappointing and weigh down the show...
Keith Hernandez on Phillie hurler Brett Myers' tendency to get rattled on the mound: "He's not Warren Zevon's Excitable Boy, but..."The annoying thing about Hernandez's recent sexist comments is that.
One of the most misunderstood things about feminist thought is the idea that identifying patriarchy is about "hating men" or "blaming men for the world's problems" or whatever. But, of.
A crucial point by Glenn Greenwald, who takes on the persistent annoyance of attempts to define statist conservatism as liberalism (or not-conservatism):2) Goldberg's claim that Bush can even remotely be described as a "liberal" is premised on two separate fallacies: (i) that someone who deviates...
Maybe it's me, but shouldn't a fairly well-capitalized organization have pitching options that don't involve the guy who holds the worst-ERA-evah record in both leagues?Anyway, if the Braves can't win.
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.
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 or members of the Taliban. They were held for more than a year despite this....
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.