The D.C. Circuit has upheld the preclearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act, in a case likely to be taken by the Supreme Court (but hopefully not now.) On the importance of Section 5.
The stupidity of the U.S. embargo against Cuba, example 23,000,000.
Propublica's timeline on Obama and civil liberties is very useful. A few notes: More than once, I've seen claims that "one can argue" that Obama has been even worse than.
If this is the stuff that the heirs of Breitbart's hack empire want to frontload, I'm going to be especially entertained by the B material. Meanwhile, not to be outdone in any hack sweepstakes, Roger L. Simon says they're conceding too much in their (I swear...
On Joe Ricketts: The New York Times won the morning on Thursday with an A1 story on a new anti-Obama super-PAC, Character Matters, that's planning on spending $10 million on.
Donna Summer, R.I.P.
Given the times we live in, it's worth recognizing those who believed that gay rights was the next phase of the rights struggle when many did not. Such as Huey Newton. From an August 15, 1970 speech: Remember, we have not established a revolutionary value system;...
Kaustuv Basu discusses an effort at Stanford to reduce the time it takes students to receive a Ph.D. in German Studies to 4 years. Spearheaded by former MLA President Russell.
I have a follow-up to Jamelle's piece talking about the various other ways Romney will be horrible. In particular, we'd be looking at a Supreme Court where Antonin Scalia would.
Per Intrade, which is probably the most reliable measure of that question at this point. And of course if Romney is elected president there's a good chance both houses of Congress will be in GOP hands, since these probabilities are interdependent to a significant extent. Hard...
Andrew Cohen points us to this exhaustive study by the Columbia Human Rights Law Review about the execution of Carlos DeLuna. I will have more when I've had the chance.
Jamelle Bouie is definitive: Romney is running for president as a right-wing Republican with right-wing ideas, and it is absurd to think that he would suddenly revert to the Mitt.