The story of Emma Sullivan is, in its small way, inspiring. She stood her ground, Kansas’s WATB-in-chief backed off, and her school administrators seemed to figure out in time that demanding an apology would violate the First Amendment. Sometimes standing up for yourself is not just the right thing to do but actually works. Not […]
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To add to what Paul wrote below, what happened at Penn State: But the report also alleges much earlier instances of abuse and details failed efforts to stop it by some who became aware of what was hap
I’m so old I remember when Josh Trevino was considered some sort of intellectual. But don’t kid yourself, this 53% thing will be the hottest thing since the Victory Caucus. Also, by th
Mark Penn. Still the single biggest reason that I would still support Obama if the 2008 primaries were run again. And the fact that he was portrayed as some sort of supergenius for “helping” to win the virtually unlosable 1996 campaign and continues to be lavishly rewarded by otherwise intelligent people is one of the […]
Maybe he could call it the Hot Soup party. And I’m pretty sure I’d rather be governed by Lady Gaga than Thomas Freidman (not to mention Rick Perry, who apparently would be perfectly modera
Granted, birthers are pretty oppressed. But if there’s anybody more downtrodden than the poor sap who has to try to feed a family of four on a mere $500K a year in a desirable urban area, I̵
Shorter BHL: “Nobody will stop me from defending Dominique Strauss-Kahn against the many conveniently uncited people who believe that he should be convicted without a trial or due process protections. I also don’t understand that the presumption of innocence is a legal concept that doesn’t bind people outside of courts.” As friend of the blog […]
The DLC may have closed up shop, but we still have a pompous blowhard who inherited a Senate seat, did essentially nothing of value with it, and then followed up a bunch of high-minded guff about how
Shorter Bob Corker: “I would happily undermine our nation’s security by refusing to ratify an important treaty as long as it meant that we would be able to continue to further undermine ou
Holy Joe Lieberman.
Shorter Verbatim Juan Williams: “It leads to people, especially journalists, being sent to the gulag for raising the wrong questions and displaying independence of thought.” Yeah, the th
Evan Bayh: “[t]here’s no bigger deficit hawk in Congress than I am.” So, of course, he must favor letting Bush’s unpopular upper-class tax cuts expire, right? Ha ha, just kiddi