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...
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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.
Like Rob, I will be spending much of June out of town before returning to the teaching grind in July. After spending this weekend in Vegas with my colleagues, I will return briefly and then head off to France for a couple weeks. I will...
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.
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.