The Debate Link

Ian Ayres and Sydney Foster have posted a Texas Law Review article they wrote entitled Don't Tell, Don't Ask: Narrow Tailoring after...

Fresh off of Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA) calling Barack Obama "uppity" , we get Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) questioning Obama's...

It's raining here in suburban Maryland, and as usual, that means our basement is halfway underwater. I've been making a game effort ...

Your daily dose of civil rights and related news What are Gov. Sarah Palin's views on race and civil rights? Her Alaska record leaves...

I just had to share this exchange I just had with my mother, after John McCain's speech: Me: I never knew John McCain was a POW. Mom: Ar...

I went from "I'm not watching" to "I'm liveblogging" in the space of a minute. Let's see what ol' Straig...

Democrats have been noting for months that "elitist" is the GOP's new word for "uppity". And now, Georgia Rep. Lynn ...

I just turned on Hardball to hear Chris Matthews saying: "I thought Gov. Palin was very positive last night." And then I turned of...

Echidne snarks about it : Then Palin went on attack, telling us how very much better John McCain was than Barack Obama, because he was a POW...

If this Detroit Free Press focus group is at all accurate, not even close. Palin seriously turned off independents last night with her biti...

Your daily dose of civil rights and related news This is a little late, but the Atlanta Journal-Constitution had a fascinating story abou...

I can, but that's because Gov. Palin's speech only delved into substance on the topic of energy. Which makes sense -- it is the one ...

Looks like Palin's speech is going to be standard Republican attack dog fare : Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin direc...

For some reason, I find this hilarious : I introduced myself, and she [Roberta McCain, Senator McCain's 96-year old mother] smiled graci...

I may be the only political observer out there who feels more comfortable talking about Black political thought and theology than "main...

Am I the only one who thinks that Google's new web-browser logo has some uncomfortable overtones? Google "Chrome": GLaDOS: 343...

A few days ago, The New York Times had an article about businesses which cater to designing products which are "Shabbat-friendly"...

Your daily dose of civil rights and related news Backlash over the Postville raid may be prompting the government to change its immigration ...

I saw the second half of Sen. Norm Coleman's (R-MN) speech before the RNC. It was bad. I mean, bad . Nobody was into it, the crowd was t...

Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales mis-handled classified data (shades of Sandy Berger?), according to a just-released DoJ report. In...