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 massive failure.
Author: Scott Lemieux
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.
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.
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.
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 kid yourself, there's no way we can address poverty if Roman Catholic institutions employing civilians...
As you might expect, Ross Douthat is unhappy about the backlash against the Komen Foundation's decision to defund Planned Parenthood. Much of his argument consists of assertions of media bias.
If Karl Rove hates something, I would indeed inclined to support it if I didn't already.