Cynthia Nixon's recent comments are very wise: Regarding her late-in-life sexual orientation switch, the “Sex and the City” star said: I gave a speech recently, an empowerment speech to a gay audience, and it included the line ‘I’ve been straight and I’ve been gay, and...
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Shorter Verbatim Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE): Contraception "is unrelated to the basic needs of health care."
I have some follow-up thoughts to the GPS surveillance decision handed down by the Supreme Court earlier this week. The first major takeaway from the case is that Sonia Sotomayor.
Item: When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley’s top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president. But as Steven P. Jobs of Apple spoke, President Obama interrupted with an inquiry of his own: what...
I strongly recommend Laura McKenna's piece on the wall that separates the general public from academic research: Step back and think about this picture. Universities that created this academic content.
Shorter Rick Reilly: "Sure, the late Joe Paterno may have knowingly done nothing while someone he knew to be a child rapist continued to work for the head of a.
A useful chart from Plumer. For further context: Romney has said he was unemployed. He's right. He actually does nothing to earn most of his income. He's just in possession of a giant pile of cash. He pays some people to do stuff with that...
"The enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who want them to continue to exist." Anyway, that speech should quiet Bill Kristol down for a while.
This was truly a banner year for terrible movies, with most of the worst directors in Hollywood coming out. Schumacher! Emmerich! Bay! Snyder! Marshall! Several films from Adam Sandler's Straight-to-Video.
Nocera is doing great work: When his coach, Jim Calhoun, broke the news that the N.C.A.A. was still investigating him, Boatright collapsed in Calhoun’s arms. In tears, he called his mother, Tanesha, who began weeping uncontrollably. As I chronicled on Saturday, it was her acceptance of plane tickets...
If this is what he pays in the tax returns designed with public scrutiny in mind, one wonders how low the rate was in previous years.
First you get the beet sugar. Then you get the power Then you get the WOMEN! The GOP is proud of its appalling and extremely unpopular behavior in the Schiavo.