Interesting:An abortion rights group Tuesday submitted more than twice the number of the signatures needed to hold a statewide vote in November on whether to repeal South Dakota's ban on abortion.The Legislature earlier this year passed the strictest abortion law in the nation, banning all...
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Wow, what a surprise that an "Online Integrity" campaign spearheaded by Josh Trevino would turn out to be a complete farce. [Details of Goldstein's scumbaggery here.) And, of course, this.
George Bush's drive to consolidate power and squelch dissent from dissenting professionals in the civil service got a boost today, as his appointment of Alito paid immediate dividends:The Supreme Court.
Shorter Marshall Wittmann: Containment cannot possibly work with Iran, because their "leader" (who doesn't actually control Iranian foreign policy, but never mind) isn't a modest, entirely rational leader who never makes belligerent statements in public, unlike Mao, Stalin, Khrushchev, or Kim Jong-il. And we still...
Responding to my point in comments that it was ridiculous to claim that the U.S. "established" a democratic government in Iraq, because (in addition to the fact that there hasn't.
Becks points to this post by August, who notes another dimension to the recent run of "Prove your heterosexual masculine heterosexuality by, after you've burned your minivan, eating all the.
Shorter Verbatim Austin Bay: "This week, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki introduced Iraq's new, permanent democratic government." I dunno, I might want to wait until, say, the government had actually finished filling out its cabinet until I called it "permanent."What makes it even funnier is...
Fer Chrissakes:One of the favored ways in which the relentless and well-funded anti-choice machine is making its way into government is the "choose life" license plate scam. Part of the.
Ah, nice to see that Big Media Matt has finally messed the hair of the night and come around to the correct position that salary caps are about putting money.
To amplify Amanda's post on the exploding of Newsweek's "women over 40 never get married for the first time" myth, Jeff Zaslow has an excellent article which further elaborates on the article's perniciousness--in particular, what he correctly identifies as the original article's "core message" that...
One addendum to the verdicts in the Enron case: apparently a central issue on appeal will be the burden of proof required by the jury instructions, which was the issue.
Lay and Skilling--guilty. My understanding is that--particularly with respect to Lay--this was would be difficult case to get across to a jury, so a terrific job by the prosecution. (For.