Ah, nothing better than a consequential August doubleheader. Well--something could be better; the Red Sox could be starting a major league pitcher instead of Jason Johnson. I actually had a measure of optimism going into the series after the Orioles actually showed some signs of life...
Longtime readers will know that I have my own disagreements with the solipsistic assumption of some members of the legal academy that the quality of the legal craftsmanship of judicial.
Damn.That's Abraham Lincoln, Kitty Hawk, Ronald Reagan, 3 Ticonderogas, and what looks like 8 Arleigh Burkes, constituting nearly a quarter of the combat capacity of the USN. It's the first.
You're a game and a half behind the division leader in August. This is the last direct meeting you'll have with the aforementioned leader. It's a tie game. You have recently traded much of the team for additional relief pitching.Is putting Ryan Franklin on the mound,...
...makes another appearance in the august pages of the Wall Street Journal. Most of the truly bad arguments made by the forced pregnancy lobby result from an understandable unwillingness to.
Via Alex, I see that XFL media has yet another new format. Ever the masochist, I clicked through to the site. In addition to a lot of other highly uninteresting.
U.S. District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, to her immense credit, has ruled the Bush Administration's warrantless wiretapping program unconstitutional. Judges can't always be relied on to stop lawless executive behavior when national security is invoked, so Taylor's courage has to be praised. The President, as...
Jeff Goldstein, responding to Andrew Sullivan's point that reactionary bloggers were yet again gratuitously bringing his sexuality into a political discussion:Still, with this--his latest attempt to silence his critics by.
I will have some discussion about constitutional "minimalism" later today, but in the meantime a quick note about the first case critics of this theory are likely to bring up..
I'm not even sure I can say why, but something about this felt very mean-spirited:Second-strangest thing about the Tigers: Six years ago, they offered Juan Gonzalez a $150 million contract that would have destroyed them for the rest of the decade if he wasn’t dumb enough...
The NYT reports that attacks on US forces are nearing on all time high in Iraq. Yet, casualty rates for US troops seem to have stabilized. Why is this? I'm.
This is the fifth of an eight part review series of the Patterson Summer Reading List.1. Colossus, Niall Ferguson2. Illicit, Moises Naim3. The End of Poverty, Jeffrey Sachs4. The World.