Shorter Steve Waldman and Amy Sullivan: Most Democrats (or, at least, "elite" Democrats) have a knee-jerk hostility to religious people, which is why they despised churchgoing Southern Baptists like Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Al Gore and the churchgoing Roman Catholic John Kerry, and why...
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As an addendum to my previous post, here's George Allen--the empty suit many people think the GOP will prop up in 2008--doing the abortion kabuki:MR. RUSSERT: Something else happened this.
So 10 minutes ago my plan was to post about how it's great to have it back, but the climax was maybe a touch too predictable , plus this is.
For the classic example of what Matt and I are talking about, note George Allen's performance on Press the Meat this morning. I'll put the relevant parts up as soon as the transcript is online, but Allen gave the classic performance. Russert asked about overturning...
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The New State Logo.Molly Saves the Day has 20 questions for those who allege that abortion is "baby killing." Ask them to most "pro-lifers," of course, and I'm sure you'll.
Yikes. Granting that I generally avoid using that particular word (at least without an academic justification--when I teach Cohen next week I think it's fair game to tell the story about how Harlan almost read "fuck the draft" in open court to annoy Burger), but...what...
As most of you know, pro-life rhetoric in the U.S. is, more than anything, focused on diversion, using the language of states' rights or "reasonable regulations" to advance their agenda.
Stunningly, It Could Have Been WorseMichael Berube reminds us, in the wake of South Dakota's brand spanking new abortion ban, about how the reactionary vanity candidate who handed the 2000.
A tale of two headlines:Suddenly, a Rebellion in the G.O.P. on a Signature IssueG.O.P. Plan Would Allow Spying Without WarrantsI see. So the spine being showed by the GOP is with respect to a relatively trivial issue that happens to permit a considerable amount of...
As a follow-up to Amanda's long-running series, we can perhaps help Chris Muir out by pointing him to an obscure document he seems to be unfamiliar with, the United States.
All bow before Canada...BASEBALL SUPER-POWER! Adam Stern, Stubby Clapp, Pete LaForest, immortals all! I can't say that I was terribly excited about the WBC, but I admit I enjoyed watching.