Most: It pains me to link to them. Fox News (via Broadsheet):"Congress is practicing medicine and the Court has decided to let it, in direct conflict with its own precedent. Five members of the Supreme Court have decided that Congress knows more about obstetrics and gynecology...
For some reason, the forced pregnancy lobby doesn't understand the well-established contrarian analysis that upholding arbitrary abortion regulations is actually a good thing for reproductive freedom:Elated and emboldened, anti-abortion activists.
As an antidote against the inevitable chorus of fake moderates arguing that today's abortion case is no big deal, four things to keep in mind as you ponder today's decision:Don't.
Steven Hayward, Senior Fellow at the Pacific Research Institute and Weyerhauser Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, has a documentary out that claims to refute the "overall pessimism" in Al Gore's An Inconventient Truth. As always, the source matters. The Pacific Research Institute is one of...
As Bean notes below, the Supreme Court has upheld the Federal "Partial Birth" abortion ban, which as I have argued in detail was 1)inevitable with Alito's appointment to the Court.
The decision is in. The Supreme Court today upheld the late-term abortion ban Congress passed after the Court struck down a similar ban a few years ago. Congress, if you.
It's an old trope. In 1590's Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe wrote of Helen of Troy, the woman over whom the Trojan Wars were fought: Was this the face that launch'd a thousand shipsAnd burnt the topless towers of Ilium?Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.Ah...
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Wow. Here's what I stumbled across the other day while researching General John DeWitt's infamous (and unoriginal) "a Jap is a Jap" remark from WWII. I really was stricken mute.
Via Drum:...."The debate in Congress ... has been helpful in demonstrating to the Iraqis that American patience is limited," Gates told Pentagon reporters traveling with him in Jordan. "The strong feelings expressed in the Congress about the timetable probably has had a positive impact ... in...
Defense News:There are roughly 130,000 contractors in Iraq, said [Barry} McCaffrey; about 4,000 of them have been wounded and 600 have been killed, he said.It's unclear whether McCaffrey was talking.
April 17, 1861:An Ordinance to repeal the ratification of the Constitution of the United State of America by the State of Virginia, and to resume all the rights and powers.