I’d like to tackle this question raised by a commenter at the law blog Volokh: …[H]ow is opposing legalization of same-sex marriage today different from opposing the legalization of interracial marriage back [in the 1960s in the Loving vs Virginia … Continue reading →
August 6th was the 65th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and I recycled this piece for the occasion. It ended with these words: It’s much harder to convince a WWII vet that Hiroshima was an … Continue reading →
…when it’s considered worthy of note that a primary candidate endorsed by the president of the United States actually manages to win the primary.
Continue reading →…may have just called President Obama “boy”. Take a look at the last sentence of Milbank’s column to see what I’m talking about. [Hat tip: Ace.]
Continue reading →In this recent post, I highlighted some WaPo comments from a guy who calls himself “sayoung809132001,” who claims to be a former Democrat union man from Michigan who got laid off and is currently unemployed. The whole experience has led … Continue reading →
…and stop asking for too much change too fast. After all, we’re dancing as fast as we can. Obama spokesman Gibbs criticizes the left for criticizing Obama too much for not doing enough. And not just the left, either: the … Continue reading →
Ezra Klein has quite a few liberal/left journalistic credits to his name. He’s written for the Washington Post for over a year, for example. He was the founder, head honcho, and gatekeeper of the now-ill-fated listserve JournoList, controlling who among … Continue reading →
Please read this cri de coeur, found on a comments page at the WaPo, written by commenter “sayoung809132001” and posted on August 7, 2010 at 1:07:14 PM,: I urge the new republicans who are now running to reach out to … Continue reading →
Commenter David Foster has written a two-part book review of historian and author Sebastian Haffner’s Defying Hitler (part I is here, part II here). I would say “read the whole thing.” But I’ll amend that a bit and say instead, … Continue reading →
Decoy Jews are now being used by police departments in the Netherlands—that is, cops disguised as Jews—a response to increasing reports that Jews wearing skullcaps cannot travel the streets of some European cities such as Amsterdam without being harassed: Since … Continue reading →
Some years ago, Stanley Kurtz wrote a series of articles on the subject of what effect the legalization of same-sex marriage might have on the institution of marriage itself. They make for sobering reading, although (like almost all other social … Continue reading →
To take up a topic suggested by a number of comments to my earlier post today (and to avoid talking about Obama just a little bit longer): why do older women, or even middle-aged women, so seldom wear their hair … Continue reading →