We already know that even South Africa is more progessive than the US in many ways. So its particularly disturbing that our leadership is actively seeking to turn back the clock on the social progress this nation has slowly made over the last half century and return to that idealized America that only exists in [...]
Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination today… This is NOT going to be a good day for Bush. Laura must be out on her balcony chain smoking her nerves away…
Again I find myself not sure what to think or say about a Bush nomination to the Supreme Court. As much as I try and not be a knee-jerk liberal, reacting negatively to everything GWB says or does, until recently he’s been batting pretty much 1.000 in terms of pissing me off. Now due to [...]
Rehnquist is dead. I guess we’ll all play the “what a great man he was” game but this is the guy who was against a woman’s right to choose, gay rights, privacy in the home, protecting rape victims, for executing minors and the mentally retarded, and presided over both impeaching Clinton for a blowjob and [...]
Armando over at Kos already beat me to it, but what the hell is going on with the John Roberts fanboys over at the New York Times? It was a typical remark from a legal scholar who is said to have never lost a local spelling bee as a child and who once wrote an [...]
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