Today is primary day in four states: Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Oregon. It may not sound like much, but the results will tell us a lot about current electoral trends and anti-incumbent fever. Here’s the place to discuss it if … Continue reading →
…Indiana Republican Representative Mark Souder has been caught with his pants down (metaphorically speaking) and will be resigning. The 59-year-old Souder was a big family values guy and a conservative Christian, but that didn’t stop him from having an affair. … Continue reading →
Democratic senatorial candidate Richard Blumenthal has succumbed to an occupational hazard of boomer political candidates: alluding to some details of military service that turn out to be a lie. In Blumenthal’s case, his Vietnam-era stint was in a Washington DC … Continue reading →
Remember Henry Gates, Obama’s buddy who had a run-in a while back with a Cambridge cop? A few weeks ago he published a surprisingly balanced and thoughtful opinion piece in the NY Times that admitted the role of Africans in … Continue reading →
There are frightening financial rumblings from Europe. It’s not just about Greece, either, nor even limited to Europe. The last few decades have intertwined the economies of the entire world more tightly than ever. This seemed like a good idea … Continue reading →
…to the fact that we appear to be betraying you. I wonder if the reassurance will work.
Continue reading →Inappropriately cheerful and upbeat spambot (because the following comment was placed on a blog post entitled “See no evil: sadistic terrorists and ‘World War III’”): That’s a pleasant blog post! I am so pleased you thought to write about it.
Continue reading →…that two can play at this boycott game. [Hat tip: Instapundit.]
Continue reading →…have deans like this when I was in law school? And oh—here’s a few for you guys.
Continue reading →Jack Cashill, who has previously stirred up controversy by alleging that Bill Ayers wrote Obama’s Dreams From My Father, connects some dots about the prevalence of plagiarism and/or ghost-writing among Harvard Law School professors, and the dubious role of Supreme … Continue reading →
No surprise here. Yglesias preaches to the BDS choir. Fortunately, the American people are no longer taking the bait. The demonization of Bush was an important element in the sequence of events that paved the way for Obama’s election. But … Continue reading →
Orin Kerr notes at Volokh.com that Kagan’s likely confirmation will mean that the Supreme Court will be entirely composed of Catholics and Jews, with no Protestant representation at all. Kerr has no overarching theory about this, except for the obvious … Continue reading →