By That Standard, Yes Here’s DeLay on the redistricting “They [the three judge panel that in 2001 drew the Texas districts, after the Texas legislature failed to do so and after Gov. Perry chose not to call a special session to address the issue] did a very poor job, as evidenced by the fact we […]

Catholic Conversion Given the execrable Republican spin that opposition Mark Pryor’s nomination to the 11th Circuit means that Democrats are prejudiced against Catholics (is there a more beloved Democrat than JFK?), I can’t help wondering whether this means a Bork re-nomination is in the works: Former circuit judge, U.S. solicitor general and 1987 Supreme Court […]

Give Money I’ve seriously reduced my contributions to various political organizations, because I’m saving up as much as I can for the eventual Democratic nominee (it will be, for me, a ground-breaking donation, reiterating my earlier additional reason for disliking today’s Republicans: they are costing me money). But now I’m making an exception. The Texas […]

Well Said Digby’s got it right: Because we have hit the wall, folks. The Nader vote should have been a clue — not that we need to move left, but that we’d gone as far to the right as we could. Any further and we lose the base, either to a third party or apathy. […]

Tort Reform and Tradeoffs [warning: long post] As I was reading Dwight Meredith’s latest interesting discussion of tort reform, lead poisoning and lead-based paint came to mind. I was trying to picture the reaction that courts in the 1960s would have had to hypothetical plaintiffs alleging that, “the paint in our house is causing our […]

Run, Don’t Walk Over to South Knox Bubba, to check out his illustration of Pres. Bush’s concept of the separation of powers. AB

Twenty Greatest John Hawkins is making lists again, this time of “The Greatest Figures Of The 20th Century”. Unlike the last list, this one is not limited to Americans. Once again, there will be a Liberal list and a Conservative list. I didn’t have time to put much thought into this, but off the top […]

Congratulations Today, I’m going to a friend’s wedding. Weddings are always special, but this one is unusual because until Thursday, I didn’t know it would be happening today. In fact, because he’s been serving in Iraq and Kuwait for most of the last eight months, even he didn’t know until recently when his wedding would […]

Great Line of The Day “All righty, then. Nobody shake Antarctica before the Russians pop it open, OK?” Charles Kuffner explains why we should not shake Antarctica. AB

How Many Angels Can Dance on A Pinhead? Who knows? Not me. But roughly 600 bloggers can be fair and balanced on the same day. That’s at least 599 more blogs than cable news networks that can do that. Nice job with the list, Blah 3. AB