Stories like this make Jon Stewart's and Stephen Colbert's jobs too easy.Larry Craig and David Vitter have just co-sponsored the "Marriage Protection Amendment" -- a law that would "protect" the sacred institution that is heterosexual marriage. An institution they have so honored. I shit you...
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Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who has been mentioned as a short-list candidate for McCain's veep slot, reacted swiftly to the Supreme Court's decision in Kennedy yesterday...by signing a bill to.
In the hubbub over Kennedy & Exxon today, little attention has been paid to Giles v. California, a case on which I worked (for the record, my SCOTUS record is.
The Guardian is reporting that Heinz has been forced to pull this television ad in response to viewer complaints.From the Guardian:The Heinz Deli Mayo ad has been pulled after less than a week on air after viewers complained to the Advertising Standards Authority that it...
I should just stop reading him and lump him with MoDo. But alas. I have not.In this installment, Saletan takes on pharmacists who refuse to dispense oral contraception (nevermind emergency.
Seriously.Congress is well on its way to approving four week of paid parental leave for federal employees upon the birth or adoption of a child or to care for a.
Pharmacists refusing to stock or dole out birth control or emergency contraception is, sadly, nothing new.But it's now gone one step further: According to a Kos contributor, a certain small segment of ambulance drivers/EMTs are refusing to transport women to the emergency room for medically...
Above the Law (the legal tabloid run by David Lat, he of Underneath their Robes fame) has published its list of Top 10 Legal Songs. And guess what? We're #2..
The New York Times reported yesterday on an alarming trend out of the anti-woman/forced pregnancy camp in Kansas. In that state (and a few others), state laws allow people to.
Freedom Dorm. Sounds like a nice, hippie-ish, free loving place to live on some liberal college campus, no? Bard? Oberlin?But no. Instead, Freedom Dorm is the name of a high-security youth detention facility in Texas that currently houses 150 girls (of the approximately 14,000 who...
On the front page of today's NY Times -- above the fold -- is an article about wealthy Russians and travel. It's entitled "Free and Flush, Russians Eager to Roam.
It's today. National Pigeon Day. Worst. National day of recognition. ever.... UPDATE (from d): I'm going to respectfully disagree with my esteemed colleague here. When I was living in Boston.