For your convenience. Included are 26 Democrats now on the record as opposing expanded access to health care but who want to make sure that if health care passes despite them it should discriminate against women.
Author: Scott Lemieux
Brad Ellsworth, Bart Stupak, and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. I would hope that this amendment gets stripped out in conference. On the other hand, it's entirely possible that.
Lithwick does a good job of summarizing the issues surrounding upcoming oral arguments about whether the 8th Amendment proscribes life-without-parole sentences for juveniles, but one set of facts under consideration.
What I...er, I mean, "(white male) independents in the suburbs (the only constituency in America whose views should matter)" want is for the government to acknowledge that Herbert Hoover's response to economic disaster was a little too activist and act accordingly....and at least one "Democratic"...
Weigel Ackerman gets there:Hasan is alive. He will be interrogated and tried. We will presumably learn soon why he committed the cowardly actions he committed. Until then, those who speculate.
Reflections from Mark Schmitt.
You may remember, in one of the worst slippery slope arguments ever, school district lawyers objecting to the Supreme Court's salutary decision in Safford School District v. Redding because it might inhibit school administrators from conducting humiliating searches of young women based on pitifully weak...
Absolutely classic Goldberg. I couldn't even make up someone who talks about the "moral superstructure" of shitty George Lucas movies, and goes on to discuss silly ideas with even more.
Surely, even we opponents of the death penalty can agree that the rack should be brought back for any Yankee fan whining over how it's been nine long years since.
Shorter Charles Colson: Without religious belief, it's difficult if not impossible to have the kind of consistent moral compass that allows you to become a convicted felon on behalf of a lawless, disgraced president.
Maine voters shamefully reject same-sex marriage law. Clearly, this proves that litigation doesn't work.
According to MSNBC, Hoffman has conceded.......further confirmation. Obviously, this is excellent news for the Republican Party....No, really! Erickson really does offer some of the finest comedy on the intertubes......why Owens.