Month: May 2013

Mother’s Day Shooting in New Orleans

Hey, nobody has died – yet – from the latest episode in our favorite All-American pastime: Shooting people with guns because — just because we can. Oh and 2nd amendment, etc. Police today are searching for...

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You’re Screwed Either Way

Pat Buchanan poses an either/or question. From these Census figures, white folks are losing interest in politics and voting. Yet, whites still constitute three-fourths of the electorate and nine in 10 Republican votes. Query: Is...

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Impeachment Talk is Crazy, But…

I have broad sympathy for Michael Tomasky’s argument and no one ever went broke overestimating the radicalism of the modern Republican Party. Given the slightest pretext, the House Republicans will certainly begin drafting...

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Open Conversation

Justice Ginsburg has some interesting ideas about Roe v. Wade that might foretell the fate of gay marriage. I was only three or four when the Roe decision came down, so I can’t remember what it was like at the time, but...

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Casual Observation

The only thing to do, I guess, is invite Karen Tumulty and Phil Rucker over to the White House for dinner. I figure that if the president does that once, he won’t have to read about how insular he is anymore in the...

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