If anything is clear about the politics of aboriton, it's that criminalization does relatively little to protect fetal life but a great deal to endanger the health of women. Jill points us (among other examples) to Uganda, where "as many as 1200 Ugandan women die every...
Beauty pageant -- or, as their organizers would prefer to call them. "scholarship pageant" winners -- ripped off and denied their scholarship money.
For all of my adult life I have been plagued by the question of pant-size availability. Is it hard to find 38x32 pants because the size is extremely common, or.
If he weren't merely fulfilling one of the emptiest of right-wing obligations for seeking the presidency, I'd have to nominate this as about the most objectively ahistorical thing I've heard in a while:"You know, you look back over our history, and it doesn't take you long...
The "Fighting Words" description doesn't seem to fit Hitch's column today; he seems like nothing so much as a tired, beaten man, vainly grasping for relevance as he pushes out.
Jeff Rosen has a very good piece on John Paul Stevens in the Times Magazine. The central point is that Stevens isn't so much a liberal as someone who plays.
Those of us discouraged by Clinton's imminent victories in the Democratic primary got some great news: George Bush has predicted that 1)Clinton will win the nomination, and 2)the GOP will win the election. Given his track record, I'd buy up Obama presidential contracts in the election...
A double dose of Missouri news today. First the good: The state's intermediate court has held that the state's fetal homicide law, which allows criminal charges against third parties who.
Well, this is a bummer.
I consider, therefore, the prime mission of the ideal American commonwealth to be the perfection of the Aryan genius for political civilization, upon the basis of a predominantly Teutonic nationality[.] If such, in truth, be the transcendent mission of the American commonwealth, . . . what...
Palate cleanser, as they say:
Alex at Yorkshire Ranter has a fantastic post on the MRAP. A taste:Essentially, they are six-wheeled buses surrounded by huge amounts of armour protection of various kinds, intended to be.