E.J. Graff presents the best optimistic take I've seen yet. I wouldn't say I'm fully convinced, but I hope she's right that the outcome will be a net positive. She concludes with this: Equal marriage rights can only be held by persuading three audiences—legislators, judges...
Author: Scott Lemieux
This story, making the rounds on Twitter, is indeed remarkable: When Emily Cooper headed off to first grade in Moody, Ala., last week, she was prepared with all the stuff.
Given that this particular manifestation of the War On (Some Classes of People Who Use Some) Drugs has resulted in another federal prosecution, this research by Eric Walker couldn't be.
It's been a pretty tough year in terms of shocking revelations. I could just about survive finding out that a wealthy professional athlete has had extramarital relations. But now I found out that an NFL coach has used...profanity? In the genteel, sacrosanct confines of the...
Shorter Andrew McCarthy: As Newt Gingrich pointed out, the exclusionary, authoritarian practices of Saudi Arabia provide a better model for religious tolerance and pluralism than the Constitution of the United.
As Amanda said on Twitter, the one thing you have to give the Minnesota Republicans in their highly instructive decision to make an ad based on perhaps the stupidest conservative.
Shorter Andrew Malcolm: "I'm going to pretend that the Senate works according to majoritarian rules, and then I'm going to pretend that people like Ben Nelson and Joe Lieberman are orthodox liberals. Now you can see that Obama had the unlimited ability to get his...
My official reaction to the indictment of Roger Clemens is that I don't like perjury charges that are an outgrowth from "OMG baseball players use different kinds of PEDs than.
Shorter Verbatim Sarah Palin: "Dr.Laura:don't retreat...reload! (Steps aside bc her 1st Amend.rights ceased 2exist thx 2activists trying 2silence"isn't American,not fair")." When I said that when a winger talk show host.
The odd thing about Dean's tenure as a liberal standard-bearer is that he really wasn't all that liberal; certainly, a good argument can be made that Kerry's record was more progressive on balance, and the best argument against Dean in the Democratic primary is that...
Shorter neo-neocon: "Everything changed for me on September 11. I used to consider myself a Democrat, but thanks to 9/11, I think Barack Obama hates America and may well be.
A commenter on the recent thread about Kennedy says probably not: I see no reason why anyone would assume that Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kafan would be votes to affirm..