Fred Kaplan is certainly right that McCain's current excuses for flip-flopping on DADT have been exposed as the utter fraud they've obviously always been. As to whether he's run out of excuses, definitely not. He never will. For this great maverick, self-serving bullshit has always...
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I've been (finally) writing a couple posts, one a 'coming out of hibernation' omnibus, but holy crap, FIFA have challenged the laws of physics with this. I'll have a bit.
Highly principled opponent of "judicial activism" Tom Maguire continues to believe that activist judges should strike down health care policies he doesn't like. You will be surprised to know that.
It's appropriate that the day the predictably awful report of the Catfood Commission is released, Republicans have made clear exactly how credible their commitment to deficit reduction is: The Republican position is that it's fiscally irresponsible to temporarily extend unemployment benefits during an economic crisis....
Longer Ann Althouse: "Liberals sometimes find violence against women amusing. If you see 'an irrelevant eighth-rate shock metal band most people have never heard of and its tiny audience' as.
David Simon deflates the hopes of an entire generation. Good for him. All we need now is another Vietnam to thin out their ranks a little. (Via Lindsay Beyerstein)
LizardBreath on the upcoming celebrations of treason in defense of slavery that are trying to leave out the slavery part: I think what gets to me is the Orwellian nature of it all; that it's a power play. If Confederate-worshippers can make it seem aggressively...
On the Twitter today, Jacob Levy made the half-defense of Bush v. Gore perhaps most commonly made by smart people: the majority opinion was indefensible, but the outcome is not,.
Jeffrey Toobin on the 10th anniversary of one of the worst Supreme Court decisions of all time: [M]omentous Supreme Court cases tend to move quickly into the slipstream of the.
Getting a genuinely good movie out of the Star Wars franchise definitely puts him the inner circle of the Amazing Directorial Accomplishments Hall of Fame, right up there with Billy Ray's "getting a good performance our of Hayden Christensen." R.I.P.
I admit that your skepticism about this thesis would be undermined by reading what she's written, but the Donalde has a novel interpretation. ...LGM has obtained rare footage of the.
Wow. Iran's neighbors are threatened by its rise! Many governments think Pakistan may not be able to secure its nuclear arsenal! The US attempts to use its leverage with its.