Phoebe Connelly

Via SCOTUSblog the Supreme Court just handed down its decision in Kimbrough v. U.S. which challenged the sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine: It ruled 7-2 that the federal guidelines on sentencing for cocaine violations are advisory only, rejecting a lower court ruling that they are effectively mandatory. Judges must consider the Guideline range […]

That from a participant at an evangelistic strategy session at the offices of Charisma magazine, according to the magazine’s editor, J. Lee Grady. Although Charisma’s pages are filled with glowing articles by and about some of televangelism’s most ardent telethon-ers, Grady has been a critic of the monetary excesses and lack of transparency in many […]

If there were any remaining doubts about whether Hillary Clinton’s collapse is merely an artifice of a (hopeful?) national media or something truly demonstrable, let it be known that she has fallen, and dramatically. IOWA. Comparing results in the Hawkeye State from September 23 and December 6 Strategic Vision polls, in 10 weeks Clinton has […]

Eds. note: Alex Rossmiller has graciously agreed to occasionally join us on Tapped. See his previous writing for the Prospect here. As Matt brilliantly explained, the National Review “apology” for printing what appears to be blatant falsehoods about Lebanon essentially rests on the idea that Arabs are big liars. Who can blame the poor editors, […]

Echoing what Echoing what Dana said, it looks like Howard Wolfson and company are starting to reach a bit. Now they’re citing an essay Barack Obama wrote in third grade! What’s next, his middle school yearbook haircut as an indictment? —Tom Schaller

As I said in August in a As I said in August in a Baltimore Sun column, I still think John McCain is the Republicans’ best bet to keep the White House in 2008. Though I sometimes disagree with David Broder, he’s right about the lure of a McCain-Mike Huckabee ticket. Without repeating my reasons […]

Despite what I said about the Obama campaign’s growing confidence, there was an interesting moment after Obama’s speech when he poked briefly into the overflow room to greet and thank throngs of his supporters, who had packed that room because the main ballroom was full. In fact, they were so loud that sound from the […]

The The Clinton campaign is raising the issue of Barack Obama‘s incomplete health care plan and misleading statements about what it does and does not do. Clinton camp internet director Peter Daou published this at HuffPo calling on Obama campaign chair David Axelrod to correct the record. At the DNC fall meeting here in Leesburg, […]

Spencer Ackerman explains why the U.S. military should reconsider its claims of recent victories in Iraq: Consider the case of the newest militias on the block — the so-called Concerned Local Citizens, a mostly Sunni collection of ex-insurgents and rejections that’s responsible for much of the spring in the steps of U.S. officials. The CLCs […]