I wasn't thrilled when I heard that Obama was going to announce a "compromise" on contraceptive coverage either, but as it turns out the "accommodation" does not affect the substantive rights of employees and is also probably good politics, so it's fine with me. And...
Author: Scott Lemieux
...Mr. Rick Santorum, for his assertions that women are just too hysterical to serve combat roles. Someone should ask Santorum why he hates the IDF... ...and, actually, as his "clarification".
Henry's compendium of anti-labor arguments from nominally progressive academics is very useful. Attempts to come up with arguments against grad student unionization that wouldn't apply to any other context remain.
A couple people in comments endorsed Jason Mazzone's critique of the Ninth Circuit panel's narrow opinion ruling Prop 8 unconstitutional and asked for my reaction. To paraphrase Byron White, I agree with Mazzone that the best outcome would be for the Supreme Court to declare...
Like Glenn, I'm dismayed by polling showing widespread support -- including among Democrats and liberals -- for arbitrary executive power in the "war on terror." But I take somewhat different.
The top 5% are overwhelmingly conservative!
Like a majority -- although not all -- commentators, I think that Reinhardt's narrow opinion striking down Prop 8 was probably represented the right way to proceed: Still, Reinhardt's decision to go for a solid base hit rather than a home run represents a sound...
Santorum's beauty pageant sweep was fun and everything, but Romney is still inevitable. The key point is the first one -- Romney's massive edge in resources didn't come into play.
Shorter Karen Handel: I am outraged that Planned Parenthood politicized my successful move to get them excluded from funding because what they do conflicts with my reactionary political views.
Whenever the courts strike down a law that discriminates against a group conservatives don't like, every reactionary think and group blog must draw straws to see who gets to throw out the stale, transparently unprincipled cliches about judicial restraint. At the Heritage Foundation, the assignment...
The Ninth Circuit has ruled that PropH8 is unconstitutional. I am very concerned that this will undermine Newt Gingrich's commitment to the sacred institution of heterosexual marriage. Obviously, good news,.
Shorter Bobo: I find the "technocrats" in the Obama administration demoralizing because they don't understand the core of any successful anti-poverty formula: unplanned pregnancies, and plenty of 'em. And don't.