Bingo. Anyone — a local teenager, a traveling businessman, a married mother of four, an illegal immigrant, even a student at a Jesuit university — can walk into my neighborhood CVS any time, day or night, and, for less than $30, buy a 36-count “value pack” of Trojan condoms. That’s enough to last most Americans […]
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It’s a nice gesture and all that you’re seeking to repeal the indefinite detention clause in the National Defense Authorization Act this past December, but what would have been really fucking special would be if you hadn’t voted to instill in the executive branch that kind of power to begin with, you dishonest fuckers. HuffPo: […]
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Our Saviour in Chief, the same guy who has steadfastly decried the role that money plays in politics, has used the power of his Presidency to appoint those who have donated vast sums of cash to his campaign to lucrative jobs within his administration. WaPo: Big donors considering whether to work the phones raising money […]
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How is it that anyone could possibly argue that we have a police militarization problem? The Richmond Times-Dispatch on the police reaction to a pro-choice demonstration: Still, the broader issue is worth drawing out. Saturday’s display of force is far from unique in the commonwealth. Homeland Security grants lavished on local police departments in the […]
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School administrators calling the police and having a child arrested and detained in a “holding facility” for having what is described as a “bad attitude.” NECN.com: Eleven-year-old Yajira Quezada, a sixth-grader at Colorado’s Shaw Heights Middle School, was handcuffed and taken to a holding facility for disobeying the orders of an assistant principal during lunch […]
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New Orleans to forgive $500k in traffic tickets issued to city workers using city vehicles on city time because they weren’t told that, though they be heroes, they too must follow the same traffic laws as the rest of humanity, no matter how base and unpalatable. When it comes to paying for tickets generated by […]
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I’m not exactly sure how the left has convinced America that racism and misogyny are characteristics that belong solely to the right, but it was a masterful con job. The Daily Beast: This is not to suggest that liberals—or feminists—never complain about misogyny. Many feminist blogs now document attacks on women on the left and […]
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For a political publication based in Washington DC, you’d think The Hill would know that Congress can’t “overturn” a Supreme Court decision no matter how many times they throw a penny in the pond. The House on Tuesday afternoon approved legislation that overturns a 2005 Supreme Court decision that affirmed the ability of states to […]
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The Wall Street Journal on large corporate and individual donations to the Occupy movement: A group of business leaders—including Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and former Nirvana manager Danny Goldberg—are planning to pour substantial funds into the Occupy Wall Street movement in hopes of sustaining the protests and fostering […]
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Nationally, Team RED governors are worried about the tone and direction of the national campaign. National Journal: On the sidelines of the National Governors Association Winter Meeting in Washington that wraps up on Monday, Republicans are skeptical that the reemergence of social issues in the political landscape is net positive for the party, and it’s […]
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