I mentioned recently that 2008 Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Kathleen Sebelius vetoed some awful abortion legislation vomited by the Kansas legislature. In better news, the veto was sustained. Less reassuringly, the bill was only two votes short of the necessary 2/3 and probably would have passed...
Although they were able to avoid a sweep (and prove the ongoing persistence of patriarchy) by winning the epochal Wang/Bush matchup on Saturday, in light of their 10-15 start we.
s.z. notes that uber-wingnut Randall Terry is now putting pressure on Jeb Bush in the case of the 13 year-old girl in Florida who is being coerced by the state.
The lead sentence in a PI article on the gubernatorial election:What started out as an election contest between Democrat Christine Gregoire and Republican Dino Rossi may be turning into a fight between Democratic felons and Republican felons.Now that would be exciting.
Speaking of Colorado wingnuts, Josh Marshall finds Senator Wayne Allard bemoaning "a vacancy crisis that threatens the service of the very justice upon which our great nation depends." Oh, the.
Dr. B points us to this remarkable story:Imagine two rape victims taken to the same hospital emergency room. Imagine them put in adjoining examination rooms.Let's say they have identical injuries.Presume.
North Korean ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons are terrifying things, no doubt. The possibility of their existence makes me just a bit happier to be moving to Lexington, where I only need worry about Russian, British, and French ballistic missiles. However, I can't give our...
Friday Cat Blogging. . . Stromboli
Even casual readers of this blog will not be surprised that I think that Matt's unequivocal opposition to laws requiring that adolescents notify their parents in order to procure an.
Dave and Erik do the necessary work of flushing John Tierney's latest tripe on the Chilean privatized pension system. The only thing that surprised me about Tierney's column was how far behind he is on the Republican message. The Chilean "success" was trashed several months ago,...
Lindsay is very good on the attempts of various bloggers to defend the specious accusations of religious bigotry being dragged by various persons of bad faith into a debate about.
Abu Ghraib apologist Rush Limbaugh continues his ongoing inability to distinguish between consensual and non-consensual behaviors.