In comparing recent stories of misconduct by Congresspersons, Allah points out that media reports of Republican Sen Larry Craig’s June arrest on suspicion of “lewd conduct” will include, prominently, Craig’s party affiliation — while the initial stories detailing Rep. Bob Filner’s shoving of a baggage claim attendant at Dulles conspicuously avoided mentioning his being a Democrat. The observation Allah makes is factual. And beyond that, it is relevant — not

From The Wapo: In the end, Gonzales was a man without a constituency outside of the White House. At a Senate hearing on April 19, he endured withering criticism over his professed inability to recall key events in the attorney firings, including details of a meeting on the topic with President Bush and Karl Rove. As the controversy swirled over a period of several months, conservative figures questioned both his

As a footnote to Darleen’s earlier post on the delightful collision between EU presumptuousness and Texas cowboyism, this clip from the three-part documentary Tory! Tory! Tory!, seems quit apropos. Notes David Thompson in an email, the documentary “traces the history and ideas of Thatcherism — and the creeping Socialist nightmare it was a reaction against. “US readers may not realise just how Socialist the UK was in the late 70s,

From Gail Heriot, professor of law at the University of San Diego and a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, “Affirmative Action Backfires”: Three years ago, UCLA law professor Richard Sander published an explosive, fact-based study of the consequences of affirmative action in American law schools in the Stanford Law Review. Most of his findings were grim, and they caused dismay among many of the champions of affirmative