Rick Santorum: But Mr. Santorum accused “our culture, our education system’’ of falsely “teaching our children that separation of church and state” is mentioned in the Constitution. The Constitution: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
Month: February 2012
Looks like the Tea Patry has chased her off. Good; would seem like an almost certain Dem pickup, and it's not like having someone who added a moderate patina to.
This Frank Rich article on liberal hypocrisy and gay history really annoyed me. Not that Rich is wrong--liberals have not supported gay rights until very recently. But, well, duh? Is.
It is my contention that we will see bills in the next 5 years that outright ban unionization, even in the private sector. And even I am too pessimistic, we will certainly see a strategy from Republicans not so different than their abortion strategy--define the...
Hugh Gusterson has an excellent article on the collapse of the Iraqi university system from 1991 on: While American troops guarded the Ministries of Oil and the Interior but ignored.
"Law Deans in Jail" is a new paper by two Emory law professors. The abstract: A most unlikely collection of suspects - law schools, their deans, U.S. News& World Report.
I dunno Newt, I'd have to say "would make Andrew Jackson enraged" is pretty much a minimum qualifying standard to be president of the United States in 2012.
Ah, Mittens, a man with the courage to ask the most vulnerable to make sacrifices in order to finance upper-class tax cuts. Finally, a man willing to speak hard truths..
Excellent post by Plumer about the challenge to the EPA's authority to issue regulations pertaining to greenhouse gases. If outright denialist arguments don't prevail, they could succeed in getting.
There was an obituary in the Times today for Neil Hope, the actor who played the sometimes homeless alcoholic character Wheels on the low-tech, every-episode-a-special-episode 80s Degrassi series. Apparently the character's demons and struggles were in some measure based on the actor's. The really sad...
Chapter CCLXVI in Tales From the New Gilded Age: A banker left a 1% tip in defiance of 'the 99%' at a Newport Beach restaurant the other week, according to.
There's an obvious contradiction at the heart of Little Ricky Santorum's analysis of JFK's speech -- it would seem odd to say that JFK was against people of faith participating.