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Scott Lemieux

Scott Lemieux is an assistant professor of political science at the College of Saint Rose. He contributes to the blogs Lawyers, Guns, and Money and Vox Pop.

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REDUCING UNWANTED PREGNANCIES AND THE INTERESTS OF WOMEN.

Scott LemieuxNov 16, 2006

REDUCING UNWANTED PREGNANCIES AND THE INTERESTS OF WOMEN. Brother Ezra links to a good article by Reason's Julian Sanchez about demands for compromise in the abortion debate.

MORE OF THESE PROBLEMS

Scott LemieuxNov 15, 2006

MORE OF THESE PROBLEMS: Trent Lott--your new Republican (in a word I hesitate to use in this context) whip. Red State has to be happy about Jeff Sessions's chances now!

--Scott Lemieux

IF YOU LIKED TRENT LOTT...

Scott LemieuxNov 14, 2006

IF YOU LIKED TRENT LOTT... I see that right-wing Kos-wannabe site RedState is prominently displaying a "Jeff Sessions for RPC Chair" banner. This is...highly instructive. First of all (as anyone who watched the Roberts hearings knows) there's the fact that in terms of sheer intellectual firepower Sessions makes George W.

PLUS, THE SHOW SUCKS

Scott LemieuxNov 14, 2006

PLUS, THE SHOW SUCKS If I may be permitted to add an aesthetic topper to Charlie and Ezra's discussion, it should also be noted that Sorkin is an egregiously overrated writer. Trying to avoid falling into the film trailer method of criticism being practiced by some quarters of the right, I gritted my teeth and watched the two most recent episodes. And, the fact is, Studio 60 is a bad show. The first episode of the two-parter was for the most part merely dull.

WHEN "CHARACTER" WAS...

Scott LemieuxNov 09, 2006

WHEN "CHARACTER" WAS KING: As Donald Rumsfeld is finally thrown under the bus, it seems appropriate to return to Jon Chait's recent account of the Rumsfeld-worship of the early Bush era.

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