Apologies or you're welcomes as applicable for the light blogging, as I continue on a highly enjoyable multi-country trip of family visits. Apparently, while I was away crackpot-even-by-NYPost-standards Andrea Peyser has achieved a new level in the field of blaming women for the bad (or...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Just so you know, we will be vigilant against the possibility of condiments of doom being carried across the border: Merry Christmas for those celebrating, and don't put metal in.
Displaying the legendary commitment to the rule of law for which the Republican Party has become so well known, some public officials in Utah are nullifying federal law to deny.
You may remember Joseph Epstein as the writer for people who think Roger Kimball could use a little more right-wing identity politics and Katy Perry lyrics don't have enough cliches in them. Well, today he's back with a piece arguing that white supremacy was the...
Shorter Verbatim Republican congressional candidate: "In December 1955, Rosa Parks took a stand against an unjust societal persecution of black people, and in December 2013, Robertson took a stand against.
This is still excellent news: Pamela Karlan, a noted voting-rights expert and professor at Stanford Law School, will join the Obama Administration shortly as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in charge.
In an important decision, Supreme Court of Canada has struck down several anti-prostitution laws. The Court did not rule any regulation of sex work unconstitutional, but any regulation of sex work 1)has to be a regulation of a public nuisance and not a moralistic interference...
This is so good in almost justifies Politico publishing that risible "D.C. left me" piece we discussed yesterday: Youngman’s indictment of Washington journalism is an incoherent malange. He confesses to.
Various Republican flying monkeys are personally attacking a staffer who posed for a picture, because his picture was used in a promotion for the Heritage Republican health care plan that.
Has become more enchanting: New Mexico became the latest state to legalize gay marriage Thursday as its highest court declared it is unconstitutional to deny marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples. Justice Edward L. Chavez said in a ruling that none of New Mexico's...
Many commenters had figured out that Mike Allen was going to be #1 on the hack list, but I have to say this exceeded high expectations comfortably.
I, personally, find the domestic arrangement of Sister Wives creepy at best. But prosecuting someone with one marriage license under a statute that forbids "cohabitation" seems like a straightforward violation.