Iocaste makes a good point about the nature of the error that produced the Newsweek scandal. The wingnutosphere is taking a page out of the playbook that was used by opponents of the Civil Rights movement. The seminal libel case New York Times v. Sullivan...
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Con: Shorter Glenn Reynolds: Freedom of the press is a good thing, so long as it doesn't involve any information that reflects poorly on the foreign policies of (Republican) Presidents..
An intriguing development in Canadian politics. With the Liberal government hanging by a thread, key Conservative Party founder and leadership runner-up Belinda Stronach has defected to the Liberals and will.
Frequent commenter MJD recently noted that churches that engage direct partisan advocacy are acting illegally. Julia notes that some members of Congress (including the member of the district where the church that kicked out its Democratic members resides) are trying to end this exemption.Because if...
I know that the music they play at the gym pretty much sucks by definition, but isn't the Goo Goo Dolls covering Supertramp bad rather beyond the call of duty?.
I think Matt and Praktike are missing the point regarding the sinking of an USN aircraft carrier in a conflict over Taiwan. I seriously doubt that the Chinese military leadership.
Just in case you didn't see the link in the comments on Rob's first Kurtz post below, the Kaplan piece in The Atlantic that (in part) inspired Kurtz' latest bit of paranoid Huntingtonian fantasy (Am I the only one who feels like he really wants...
As you well know, I have always made an effort to be as fair-minded as possible toward those who make irredeemably poor judgments about politics and aesthetics. In this spirit,.
"“There’s one thing I don’t understand. The thing that I don’t understand is every motherfucking word you’re saying.”- The LimeyVia Matt Yglesias, this post is worthy of a couple thorough.
Granholm v. Heald, which the Supreme Court handed down today, has an interesting lineup: 5-4, with Kennedy/Ginsburg/Souter/Scalia/Breyer in the majority. (I wonder how often, if ever, a majority opinion has been composed of those 5 alone?) The question was whether states can ban the direct...
$50 that shall remain in my pocket. I'll buy Krugman's next book for less than that new. Starting in September, access to the New York Times Op-Ed section andsome of.
Dave Noon continues to dominate. Only Dave Watkins manages to keep the LGM crowd out of the three last slots in the standings.1 Axis of Evel Knievel, Dave Noon 1748.