The Supreme Court announced three opinions today, but the biggest one (Hamdan v. Rumsfeld) wasn't among them. The court did rule that Texas' redistricting plan was constitutional (finding, regrettably but probably correctly, that only redistricting every ten years is an informal norm rather than a...
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To follow up on my point about abortion centrists who inexplicably assert that Roe's opponents have some sort of principled opposition to "judicial activism", Seth Rosenthal has an excellent summary.
One remarkable aspect of the vote on the proposed (and blissfully failed) constitutional amendment to address the enormously consequential problem of flag-burning is this name from the vote tally:Feinstein (D-CA),.
I spend three days in DC, and it rains nine and a half inches. Much flooding, as you may have heard, prevented an investigation of any of the major museums. Will post a bit later on the craptastic World War II Memorial. Now I'm in...
The American Prospect's three-article package on abortion rights--including an article by yours truly--is now up and accessible to all; make sure to check it out. Because many of my arguments.
Congratulations to the Oregon State Beavers on winning the College World Series! I know that as a Duck I should never take a pro-Beav stance, but the University of Oregon.
Now that I'm finally back from becoming even more Frenchified, it's time to thank my outstanding guest-bloggers, Iocaste and Lizardbreath. And to add one more round of kudos to SteveG and Dan Nexon. Make sure to visit them regularly at their usual residences.
Soon, The New Republic will collapse in on itself, smothered by its own sense of self-importance. We need to organize a rescue operation to get the book review section out.
When Ann Althouse said that Alito was a different kind of conservative than Scalia, she was in a sense right, although in a rather different way that she intended. From.
Joe Sheehan on baseball punditry:When the situation was reversed, when the best team in baseball was, at least on the surface, a smallball team, the revolution was upon us. Now that the winningest teams in the game are power teams, though, there’s no mention of...
Some big Supreme Court cases today. I'm going to leave discussion of the Vermont campaign finance decision until tomorrow. In the meantime, I'm going to take a page from LizardBreath.
After Iraq and massive deficit busting upper-class tax cuts and Ashcroft and Abu Gonzales and Strip Search Sammy etc. etc. etc. it's very difficult to continue to defend the narcissistic.