For all of those righties that claim birtherism is a made-up issue by liberals because it’s only proponents are far-right crazy wing-nuts that in no way represent the GOP, it is with great pleasure...
Yes, yes, I know… Go ahead and gloat. http://gawker.com/5912071/lbj-school-of-pubic-affairs-apologizes-after-unfortunate-typo-goes-public
Michael Kazin in Dissent, echoing some of my concerns in recent posts: But the meaning of liberalism gradually changed. The quarter-century of growth and low unemployment that followed the Second World War understandably muted...
Over the weekend I posted the argument that unlike with other elected officials, in today’s modern media world we tend to pick presidents based more on “likability” than qualifications, experience or record. My Jumping-Off-Point...
In his writing on the Civil War and American slavery, Ta-Nehisi Coates frequently refers to a “war” on the slaves and/or America’s black populace. (The violence done to slaves — or at least the...
Does the Constitution assume certain presuppositions on the part of those it means to govern? If so, what are those presuppositions? I submit the answer to the first question is yes, and explain the...
It appears that Tim Tebow and his legal team are about to file a lawsuit against Cubby Tees, a tee shirt manufacturer. Cubby Tees, in an obvious attempt to cash in on the buzz...
You don’t vote for Presidents for the reasons you think you do.
The situation in Greece seems to be coming to a head, with the Greek people near-united in opposition to austerity, but not apparently sufficiently united on an alternative. The mainstream left has lost ground...
Boegiboe and I are headed to Las Vegas a little early — as in, today. While we’re there, we’ll be seeing the total eclipse of the sun. And all the fun things Vegas more...
A long, long post about my views on natural rights theory, much of it recycled from my defunct blogs. Prompted by some of Tod’s questions below.
“We consider the underlying fallacy of the plaintiff’s argument to consist in the assumption that the enforced separation of the two races stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority. If this be...
Over at Forbes I have a post detailing why I think somebody needs to make a Monty Python and the Holy Grail MMORPG. I list out monsters, character classes, etc. So if you have...
I. The Task: Why so awkward? Everyone who writes for The League is ordinary, but some are more ordinary than others. Some of these super-ordinary League elites asked me to provide an introductory post, on pain of not being...
Last December on the day after my birthday, I received an email from Netherlands public radio. One of the producers there had come across a post of mine. “I wanted to make contact with...
Wendell Berry’s recent Jefferson Lecture was not, as both his supporters and detractors have acknowledged, his finest piece of writing. His use of the lectern to present a theory of Kentuckian animosity for all...
~by M.A. Conor P. Williams, in Conservatism Isn’t Radical—It’s “Modular”, argues that there is a certain amount of mental jiu-jitsu involved in shifting frameworks from argument to argument. An interesting test of this very case...
Recent census figures show that for the first time more than half the children born in the U.S. were minorities.
After reading Will’s post yesterday about baby names, I started poking around in the Social Security baby name database (which is an incredibly fun resource and might be all we get, since Republicans think...
Though the post-Lugar media tide has subsided, the American Right’s growing radicalism is still a leading theme of American political coverage. Even before Lugar’s unceremonious exit from public life, the Tea Party and other...
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on Huffpo reports that Harris internals *NEVER* had her ahead.The Tories in the UK got thrased because of inflation in July of 2024. Japan's Liberal Democratic Pa…
on I Told You Soand some picks that we knew were probably in the mix such as Tom Homan who, apparently, worked for O…
on Huffpo reports that Harris internals *NEVER* had her ahead.Do you have a solid reference for exit poll results with demographic breakdowns. I'd like us to be o… on Huffpo reports that Harris internals *NEVER* had her ahead.There's something to the inflation theory. There's also something against it. Namely, that it was do… on I Told You SoYes, Jaybird, and there were plenty of trade unionists who fled Italy when it was clear that Mussoli… on Huffpo reports that Harris internals *NEVER* had her ahead.I take it that this means that their internal polling always had them within the margin of error and…
on I Told You SoWell, for *MY* take on Trump's picks, it seems like he has a bunch of wild cards in there that seem… on I Told You SoAlso: Why the hell do you think assassinating Trump would accomplish _anything_? What are you even t… on I Told You SoYou've heard that remigration has begun already, right? It's like if the Martha's Vineyard undocumen…
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