In this thread, our friend Pithlord continues his valiant (if, in my view, misguided) defense of a modest version of the centrist pro-choice position. I've discussed before my general belief that parental and spousal notification laws are excerable public policy, although I think the former...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Yet another example. I'm sure that the intensive campaign to de-link NRO will start immediately! (Or, at least, as soon as they've started one for Jeff Goldstein.) Admittedly, there is.
Last year, I discussed the risibly spurious civil rights arguments Target was using as a pretext to not fire pharmacists who wanted to interpose their atavistic sexual morality between women.
The recent story about how not having access to Plan B is likely to lead to more abortions reminds me about this telling statistic, which appeared in the last Harper's index:Percentage of U.S. abortions in 1973 and 2002, respectively, that took place in the first...
Linda Hirshman, guest-blogging at TAPPED, has an interesting follow-up post about the debunked Newsweek scare story on marriage. One downside of the fact that most of the women got married.
Matt's argument here can be engaged with on a couple levels. Certainly, there's no question--even granting that it generally takes at least 2 viewings to sort these things out--that this.
Shorter Captain Ed: You know what would be really neat? A constitutional amendment that would guarantee that judges would never make decisions I disagree with (you know, "mischief" involving marriage like Loving v. Virgnia.) I can't see any problem with that! And the conservative base...
Julia: "Shorter Glenn Reynolds: The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to object to it."Say this for the man: he continues to provide real.
As we have been doing throughout the playoffs, Paterno Family Professor of Literature at Penn State, distinguished author, and colleague of Dee Dee Ramone Michael Berube and I will discuss.
Gee, you spend a weekend on the road (insight: gambling on horse races is much more profitable when you actually purchase the racing form. Who knew? It's always nice to make a profit at the Bellagio Sportsbook that doesn't rely solely on the value of...
Wow. In the race for the Alabama Supreme Court, the nominees are openly advancing the "let's pretend Article VI doesn't exist" theory of the Constitution you may remember from attempts.
A quick note to pass on while I sit here in the tiny (but free-wireless equipped) terminal:When discussing the various gross irrationalities and inequities of the election system, I think.