The Debate Link

Best Potter-related line of the evening: The muggle prime minister gets a visit from Cornelius Fudge and discovers that all the problems he...

I'm going out to dinner, and then I have a certain book to read, so this'll probably be it for me tonight. Hillary Clinton is calli...

A truly great post on one Englishman's political growth in the wake of the Subway Bombings, 9/11, and some time in America. Though I ca...

On my commute to work today, I had an epiphany. I decided that in my natural state, I am an "internal critic." I then spent the re...

Over at Pseudo-Polymath, Mark Olsen disputes my argument that Supreme Court nominees should be aggressively questioned on Hamiltonian grou...

Over at The Moderate Voice , Joe Gandelman notes the revival of slave reparations by American companies. Though these aren't your stere...

What is going on in the Blue States? SurveyUSA ranks all 50 governors by popularity (hat tip: Kos ). The top four most popular are all Repu...

Ann Althouse comments that the lesson we draw from the failed Bork nomination is that nominees should dodge every question they can: The on...

Unlike the Britain subway bombings or the Madrid train attack, this undoubtedly will get next to no attention . When terrorism becomes routi...

Hillel Levin has put up a self-described "big post" on gay marriage. An excellent post, all around (but see the post of Prof. Rib...

The Family Research Council, one of the pointmen for the Christian Right on the upcoming Supreme Court battle, appears to be suffering from ...

It's so nice to see Iraq is becoming friends again with it's neighbors. Look, it's just signed a $1 billion military cooperation...

This is really just a dumb idea . Yes, let's just confirm every suspicion and stereotype the religious right has about liberals. Woohoo,...

Hopefully, John Cole has gotten in the last words on the disgusting "London Bombings big Jewish conspiracy" theory floating aroun...

The Family Research Council gives us a perfect example of either totally innocent wordplay or extremely subtle (and well-crafted) bigotry. ...

PrawfsBlawg links to a Chronicle of Higher Education column (sub. only) which says that bloggers have a reduced chance at being hired as f...

I have a confession to make. I don't like democracy. Longtime readers may be a bit surprised to hear this. And before I go on, allow me ...

Hanno Kaiser makes the pitch (link: VC ). He'd replace it with an ad hoc court, convened twice annually with randomly chosen circuit ju...

A bit late, perhaps, and not quite in the 4th of July mood, but I noticed something interesting about this article on female suicide bomber...

In this LA Times editorial, VCer Orin Kerr explains why he thinks O'Connor's retirement won't be the seismic shift in Court po...