Amy Sullivan's recent article celebrating anti-choice Colorado SenatorGovernor-elect Bill Ritter makes some arguments that allow me to clarify some of my difficulties with "centrist" arguments about abortion. First of all, there's this:Early in the 2004 campaign, John Kerry caused an uproar among pro-choice supporters when he...
This has to be one of the more inept commentaries I've seen in some time, which -- beyond explaining why it appeared in the Weekly Standard -- also likely explains.
A commenter in this thread says that recess appointments can't be used for the federal bench; actually, they can. This seems like a good time to remember that President Clinton.
Via Alterdestiny we learn of some boundlessly dysfunctional attitudes toward reproductive technologies -- in this case the "Male Pill," which evidently threatens to emasculate us all by packing our gonads full of cooties. Following quickly on the heels of a post celebrating the "death of the...
In light of Mario Loyola's quite remarkable claim that were the federal government were to pass a law requiring militias to disband instead of resisting a foreign occupation the people.
Four of Bush's more incompetent and wingnutty choices for the federal courts look dead. In general, the Senate Dems should study how Republicans obstructed Clinton's choices in the last years.
Since a couple of people have asked, I should probably say a little more than my flip response to Pithlord's hope (and, at one time, prediction) that the federal "partial birth" legislation will not be overturned because it exceeds Congress' Commerce Clause powers. The long version...
Lindsay won't be happy, but apparently Feingold isn't running for President. I'm a little ambivalent, because I like Feingold a lot. But in light of the election it makes sense..
Japan withdrew from the London Naval Treaty in 1936. The chief Japanese negotiator, Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto, feared that concessions on the part of his negotiating team would lead directly to.
In addition to being Corduroy Appreciation Day, November 11 marks the anniversary of the armistice that brought World War I -- one of the most irredeemable conflicts in human history -- to a pathetic conclusion. The agreement, which called for the cessation of hostilities at precisely...
Shorter Ann Althouse: Democrats must start answering the following question: "When will you stop being traitors?" As Glenn points out, what's particularly funny about this is that Althouse, Reynolds, Peretz.
Ah, it's been a while. Mickey:Just a reminder: Rep. Henry Waxman, the aggressive incoming liberal chair of the House Government Reform committee--who is chiding his Republican predecessors for not investigating.