In his recent column, Ross Douthat doubled down on his usual strategy (tactic?) of eliding the central, seemingly irresolvable conflict in abortion and muddying the waters with tangential issues. This time, he talked about sex-selective abortion and how it’s bad because it’s sex-selective (yes) and because it’s abortion (no). He expands on that in a …
Archives for June 2011
Now I Have Proof
Yesterday, when I went to go to the lumber yard to get a couple dozen bags of topsoil, I couldn’t find my wallet. It drove me nuts, because I KNOW that I had placed it on the second desk in my office the night before. But when I went there, it was gone. I looked …
High court rules – Water is wet!
Also, the ACA does not violate the Constitution. Duh.
Required Reading
What Yglesias said. A lot of people I know are skeptical of the value of calling or writing your member of Congress. After all, why would members of Congress care about such things when scientifically valid opinion surveys are available and few members face competitive elections anyway? Surely, congressional action is determined by some combination …
All Starbursts, All the Time
Why is this even a story at the Note: There’s the stereotype of the Sarah Palin supporter, and then there’s Sonnie Johnson. The 30-year-old African-American mother and wife is featured in “The Undefeated” as one of the many people Palin captivated when John McCain thrust her onto the national stage as his vice presidential running …
What He Said
Good piece by Sullivan: Some now want this president to be Andrew Cuomo, a heroically gifted advocate of marriage equality who used all his skills to make it the law in his state. But the truth is that a governor is integral to this issue in a way a president can never be. Civil marriage …
Selling Snake Oil
Josh Marshall notes that Republicans are completely uninterested in jobs right now. We know that congressional Republicans are saying they won’t allow any more stimulus spending. That’s been more or less clear since last November’s election. And that doesn’t surprise anyone much since, while it prevents any real action to boost the economy, it’s …