Month: June 2014

No One on the Ramparts This Time

The numbers don’t lie. The percentage of self-described liberal Democrats who have a problem with Hillary Clinton being the next presidential nominee for the party is actually quite low. I think I may know (by name, at...

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Alito Says that Taking Birth Control is Immoral

From Alito’s opinion in the Hobby Lobby case: The Hahns and Greens believe that providing the coverage demanded by the HHS regulations is connected to the destruction of an embryo in a way that is sufficient to make it...

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Alito Kicks America in the Nuts

Samuel Alito kicked us in the nuts today, not once but twice. Unlike the normal procedure where you’re doubled over in pain for a while but eventually recover, there will be no recovery from this nut-kicking. These...

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The Tea Party Takeover is Complete

In the immediate aftermath of last year’s debt default crisis, Jia Lynn Yang and Tom Hamburger wrote an article for the Washington Post about how the U.S. Chamber of Commerce was sticking with their man, John Boehner....

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Soon Texans Will Drink Their Own Pee

My brother Phil wrote the cover story for the March/April/May issue of the Washington Monthly: Oops: The Texas Miracle That Isn’t. Now comes another major look at the downside of Rick Perry’s Texas from Paul...

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