Month: May 2010

This is interesting: Yet as a young writer for The Princetonian, the student newspaper at Princeton, Ms. Kagan offered clear insight into her worldview. She had spent the summer of 1980 working to elect a liberal Democrat, Liz...

Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. Madagascar has had more than its share of bad luck in the last year. In 2009, a military coup deposed the government. But the government wasn’t the...

When Elena Kagan was confirmed as Solicitor General, she only garnered 61 votes. That’s a little misleading, though, because if every Democrat had voted she would have had 65 votes for confirmation. Sens. Coburn (R-OK),...

Alabama is no longer a sweet home, nor can we accurately refer to its beaches as having a crimson tide. No in all fairness we must now call Alabama the land of the tar balls that BP let out (from AP): Frankly I fail to...

It’s not a big surprise that Obama selected Elena Kagan to be his nominee to replace John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, but it is a little bit disappointing. Glenn Greenwald has been on a rampage against Kagan, and he...