Shorter Chuck Lane: "Can you believe that Barack Obama is actually lending support to his political allies -- how ghastly. Gabrielle Giffords must be rolling over in her grave. Real liberals like Joe Klein fully support Republican reactionaries who attack organized labor so they...
Author: Scott Lemieux
When I see that Michael Bay has produced a movie based on a James Frey novel, I...well, an utter lack of talent has never necessarily been a barrier in the.
The House vote to end Planned Parenthood funding would make very little sense -- in some alternate universe where people who want to criminalize abortion were primarily concerned about protecting.
...is pretty much the opposite of what's happening in Wisconsin.
Fortunately, the imminent win for the heavily state-subsidized for-proft education industry in the House is unlikely to result in new legislation for now. But the lobbying muscle of for-profit education.
It probably goes without saying that the recent discovery by Republicans that once a party has won an election it should be able to pass any legislation it wants without.
Uh, good? The "it's so distasteful to respond to political threats by raising money" argument becomes particularly bizarre when you have a long memory about High Contrarian Discourse about abortion. A few years ago, the hot HCD argument was that one reason that Roe was...
This seems like an appropriate solution to Supreme Court decisions preventing restrictions on judicial fundraising: New York’s top court officials will bar the state’s hundreds of elected judges from hearing.
Looks like the atrocious South Dakota "jutsifiable homicide" bill has been shelved, with even the governor noting that whatever the voices in Jensen's head say passing a statute whose langauge.
I have no idea what Phil Jensen intended. But the language of the bill would clearly apply to the murder of abortion providers. The applicability of the "justifiable" exception only to homicides in response to "illegal" activity may exist in Jensen's head but it's not...
Tony LaRussa's decision to embarrass himself looks even more embarrassing right now: According to Ken Rosenthal, a source told him the Cardinals offered Albert Pujols roughly $20 million per season.
A couple quibbles with Matt here: I think this is a mistake. An enormous amount of significant legislation passed in Lyndon Johnson’s second term. As I wrote yesterday, the 1950.