Dismayingly but not surprisingly, the Supreme Court upheld Indiana's Imaginary Vote Fraud and Democratic Vote Suppression Act today. Vote was 6-3, Stevens joining the majority and writing for the plurality, leaving open the possibility of an as-applied challenge. More later this afternoon.
Month: April 2008
Any of you follow the story of Debbie Almontaser and the Khalil Gibran school when it was all happening last year? If not, you missed a shitstorm of hatemongering and.
For those wondering how painfully lame an anti-Obama Dylan parody would have to be to get an endorsement from Lisa Schiffren and Ann Althouse, the suspense is regrettably over. Come.
M. LeBlanc finds Obama using some wishy-washy rhetoric about parental involvement laws. I do think her headline is a little unfair; the closest to an outright endorsement is "possibly for extremely young teens, i.e., 12- or 13-year-olds." This is pretty silly -- on the question...
Though I'm not a British historian, this is supremely cool. As Sharon Howard explains, the new Old Bailey site not only allows folks to search the records from more than.
McCain calls Obama Insensitive to Poor People, says the AP.And of course McCain, being a champion of the poor, is in a perfect position to throw this stone.
This, for lack of a better phrase, is some disturbingly fucked up shit.
In early 1972 the heavy cruiser Newport News deployed to Southeast Asia. Newport News was one of the last of the big gun cruisers, commissioned in 1949 and carrying 9.
In an article in today's New York Times, Newark (NJ) mayor Cory Booker compares trying to reduce recidivism rates and get ex-offenders jobs to "running on the beach." It's hard.
In recognition of the day, there was A Gathering of Shitheads in Mississippi:A 21-gun salute boomed Friday afternoon at the Nathan Bedford Forrest memorial in downtown Hattiesburg.In an early observance of Confederate Memorial Day, which is Monday, about 30 people gathered to place flowers and...
(Late) Friday Depraved Cat Blogging... Starbuck and Nelson. I had held back from running this one for a long time, but it's time to answer Americaneocon's challenge.
Fantastic:When Specialist Jeremy Hall held a meeting last July for atheists and freethinkers at Camp Speicher in Iraq, he was excited, he said, to see an officer attending.But minutes into.