Thanks to loyal Platformista jjk for passing on his copy of Christopher Buckley’s latest Washington satire, “Supreme Courtship,” which posits that a bowling-loving president with epically low approval rates would nominate a sassy TV judge to the Supreme Court.

I’m a big Buckley…

Two hundred and seventeen years after the Second Amendment was ratified, the United States Supreme Court has decided what it means. To bear arms, it turns out, you don’t have to belong to a militia after all. In most places, it’s…

The Supreme Court yesterday extended rights to U.S. prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba. The ruling, granting habeas corpus to the prisoners, is seen as  a rebuke to the Bush administration. The White House rejected that notion,…

OK you poor, you elderly and you handicapped: If you don’t drive and don’t have a birth certificate or the money to obtain one and want to vote in Indiana this fall, you better grab your walkers or your wheelchairs…