In light of Rep. Paul Broun's nutty invocation of the "Great War of Yankee Aggression" the other day, it's good to see that actual Confederate wannabees aren't completely losing their shit over the prospect that 95 percent of Americans might be covered by health insurance....
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It's unfortunate that they couldn't get the majority without cutting a deal with these clowns, but the difference (while bad) is also minor, so you do what you have to.
And of course, the push for civil rights legislation was an utter failure, and produced no positive consequences of note for Americanswhite southern men. But former Republican House speaker Newt.
Glenn Reynolds: "here are some photos from that antiwar rally today in DC. Note the Soviet-nostalgia T-shirt. But guess which one the press will cast as “extremist?”" Glenn Reynolds, quoting and heh-indeeding La Althouse later in the same goddamned post: "Still, the Washington Post uses...
When the issue of my blog post on BSG and the UN came up during the diavlog the other day, Mark told me he'd never even seen Battlestar Galactica. I.
Scientists have created the first invisibility cloak. Voice of America has more. I can't wait to see what the folks at Danger Room will have to say.
Un-frakkin-believable. A retired Marine general told senators Thursday that the Dutch army failed to protect the city of Srebrenica during the Bosnian war partly because of the presence of gay soldiers in its armed forces. John J. Sheehan, a former NATO commander who retired in...
Dahlia Lithwick has an excellent response to claims (from both predictable and normally more astute quarters) that Obama is likely to pay some kind of political price for attacking the.
In short, I think it's highly unlikely. The big difference between Citizens United and a potential commerce clause challenge is that the Court had a steady trend of being more.
The UNSC-mandated Monitoring Group on Somalia presented its report to the Security Council Tuesday. The part of the report detailing corruption in the distribution of humanitarian aid is getting all the press, but for my money the most interesting part of the report is the...
In comments, McManus points us to what he considers a good progressive argument against passing the health care reform bill. The argument, I think, can be fairly distilled into this.
I wonder what ever could have given people the idea that wanting the state to force women to carry pregnancies to term might just have something to do with sexism?.