You know the criminal justice situation in the US is bad when you open the morning paper and read this paragraph as the lede in a front-section article (that happens to be written by Adam Liptak): In December, the United Nations took up a resolution calling...
An interesting catch from today's hearings from Emily Bazelon.
Might Stephen Colbert actually run for President (at least in South Carolina)?
Bush's new nominee to oversee family planning programs doesn't like contraception; no surprise there. Ann notes that "pro-lifers" don't really see anything in it for them if middle-class families have health insurance for their children. After explaining the deadly consequences of the new abortion ban in...
In response to Matt here, let's go back and see what I actually wrote about the new WHO study:If the goal of abortion is to protect fetal life, criminalization is.
On Saturday, Tom McCarver treated the most obvious banality as if he'd just split the atom; he can't help it, he's Tim McCarver. What's amazing is that he considered it.
Because we didn't do any political posts yesterday, so I didn't get a chance to blog about the judge who seems to imply that once you've arranged to have sex for money consent can never be withdrawn and rape is impossible. (See also here and here.)...
Like Matt, I think JMM gets this exactly right:I know I've said before that Romney's profound and almost incalculable phoniness is a terrifying prospect to behold in a possible president..
It should be abundantly clear to any regular readers that I am not one to criticize the S-CHIP reauthorization effort. That remains unchanged. But what I do think is worthy.
Matt Gunterman at Ditch Mitch brings us this Courier-Journal article by James Carroll:Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s spokesman acknowledged yesterday that he alerted reporters last week to questions bloggers raised about the financial circumstances of a 12-year-old boy Democrats had used to urge passage of an...
1994 was the eighteenth year of Rich Brooks tenure as the head coach of the Oregon Ducks, and he took the Ducks to the Rose Bowl for the first time.
After surviving nearly eight months with pancreatic cancer -- the same disease that killed his own father four years ago -- my dad passed away quietly at home this morning..