PSST…McCain is an unprincipled reactionary Is there any more pathetic spectacle than the ongoing crush that some centrist liberals have on John McCain? Even liberals who one would think (Iraq excepted, of course) would know better, like Jon Chait, have fallen for his shtick. But given what’s transpired in the past four years, this [...]

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As a follow up to ReddHedd’s post below, yesterday I wrote a post about Ryan Lizza’s baffling claim, in response to Russ Feingold’s proposed censure of the President, that “[c]hanging the FISA law is the way to address Bush’s overreach.” Ann Althouse objects, arguing that I am not “the best person

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Molly Saves the Day has 20 questions for those who allege that abortion is “baby killing.” Ask them to most “pro-lifers,” of course, and I’m sure you’ll re-discover what you should already know: the number of anti-choicers who believe (or, at least, are willing to act in ways logically consistent with) their alleged premises could fit in a walk-in closet.

Since I have a new audience, and many of you may not read all of the stuff I do, a few things of interest from around the intarweb (plus a thread for any night owls out there): More evidence for Barney Frank’s dictum that for Republicans, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

Drink to his health.

As most of you know, pro-life rhetoric in the U.S. is, more than anything, focused on diversion, using the language of states’ rights or “reasonable regulations” to advance their agenda of banning abortion entirely. Perhaps the most common strategy is to argue that “everyone knows” that Roe is wrong, and therefore everyone should agree that it’s illegitimate (although, mysteriously, this rhetoric temporarily vanishes when a Supreme Court

Stunningly, It Could Have Been Worse

Michael Berube reminds us, in the wake of South Dakota’s brand spanking new abortion ban, about how the reactionary vanity candidate who handed the 2000 election to George Bush was saying at the time about how little difference it made who occupied the White House, while repeating the myth that overturning Roe “would just send the issue back to the states” and wouldn’t result in any

As a follow-up to Amanda’s long-running series, we can perhaps help Chris Muir out by pointing him to an obscure document he seems to be unfamiliar with, the United States Constitution. As you can see, in his latest attempt to be as didactic and unfunny as Mallard Fillmore in a more pretentious way, Muir’s reactionary stand-in responds to a claim that the press should have the final decision about what to

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Between the confirmation of Samuel Alito and the appalling recent legislation passed in South Dakota this is a grim time in many respects for pro-choicers. For Blog Against Sexism Day, over the next three posts I’ll point out why the pro-choice position is more coherent,