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To answer the question I posed yesterday about why William Kristol and others were criticizing Glenn Beck for offering conspiratorial rants about connections between radical Islamists and American liberals given that they pretty much do the same thing, I’m going to draw on an old quote from Irving Kristol: There are different kinds of truths […]

Conservatives have been trying to get the NAACP to condemn protesters at a liberal event who apparently called for Clarence Thomas to be lynched and “put back in the fields.” Conservatives have grown to see the NAACP less as an advocacy organization and more as a blunt instrument to be wielded against Republican politicians who […]

Career Nativist Tom Tancredo, who lost his bid for governor of Colorado in despite an overwhelmingly conservative electorate after he threw virtually the entire Latino vote the Democratic nominee, is pushing a new initiative through his Team America PAC to take on “anchor babies.” Top of our agenda is to end the crisis of “anchor […]

While we’re pondering whether certain justices might reject their prior jurisprudence when the Affordable Care Act reaches the Supreme Court, Ian Millhiser brings another issue to the table regarding standing: It’s worth noting, as well, that the absence-of-standing argument is likely to resonate with conservatives on the Supreme Court. The most important decision limiting access […]

There have been a lot of primers on the Muslim Brotherhood recently, owing to the protests in Egypt and the fact that Americans know very little about the internal politics of Arab countries. The increased interest in the MB also dovetails with longstanding elaborate conservative conspiracy theories about their beliefs, capabilities, and behavior that largely […]

I was going to write a post on nullification, but Steve Benen already wrote one so you should read his. It’s basically the political equivalent to a child screaming their throat raw because they didn’t get the present they wanted. It’s also just another example of a deeply selective view of the Constitution–Article VI states […]

Erick Erickson gives the most concise version so far of the conservative freakout over the administration’s statement that Muslim Brotherhood could be part of a democratic coalition in Egypt as long as it agrees to “reject violence and recognize democratic goals.” Note that by saying the Muslim Brotherhood “must reject violence and recognize democratic goals”, […]

When Egyptian protesters began calling for President Hosni Mubarak to step down after 30 years in power, the Egyptian government shut off the internet. And when they managed to bribe or put enough plainclothes policemen in the streets to act as pro-Mubarak “protesters,” they turned the internet back on. If I might grab my chalkboard […]

Orin Kerr has an interesting reaction to Judge Roger Vinson‘s ruling throwing out the entire ACA, namely that it substitutes his view of how things should be for existing precedent: This might work as a Supreme Court opinion that can disagree with precedent. But Judge Vinson is just a District Court judge. And if you […]

He’s not speaking in Arabic though: Far from Iowa, likely Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee told a crowd of Jewish Israelis yesterday that he’d be just as mad as they are if anybody tried to kick him out of America the way Israelis are being asked to not build or live in disputed lands. “I […]