The meme, it’s spreading! Here’s a recommendation for Mr Press: when he next references the explicit “right to privacy” he seems to think is clearly demarcated in the Constitution and that Republicans, being hickish busybodies, ignore, perhaps he can follow-up in his public, daytime-TV seminars on Constitutional law, by pointing out how such a privacy right secures, say, same-sex marriage and abortion rights, but not purchasing choices, like for instance
January 5, 2011
January 5, 2011
By the way…
…if you listen closely to the left’s current campaign to marginalize and delegitimate the Constitution (from Jerrold Nadler’s protestations that the GOP ridiculously views the document as a “sacred text” to Dahlia Lithwick’s suggestion that it is “fetishized” by the right, almost like a parchment Buddha), you’ll hear this argument, which — for what readers I have left — should sound quite familiar to you: per Lithwick, appearing on MSNBC,
January 5, 2011
Pragmatism ascending
Okay, TEA Party folks. You’ve had your hillbilly fun. Felt relevant for a spell. Vented your spleen. But now it’s time for the real leaders to take over and do the adult work. And you all are making that hard work of leading very unpleasant: Driven from his party’s leadership in 1998 and sidelined for nearly a decade, Mr. Boehner, a 61-year-old Ohio native who revels in his big-family, Roman
January 5, 2011
Krauthammer: “if you can’t kill the king, then you shouldn’t attempt it”
Or, in other words, don’t even bother trying to repeal ObamaCare. Speaking with Bill O’Reilly, Krauthammer argues: […] what will happen is, it will look as if the — you know, the Republicans will end up taking away the money for a commission here, a provision here, adding to the chaos and the incoherence of it. And then, when Obama care, which is intrinsically chaotic, incoherent, inefficient, and extremely expensive,
January 5, 2011
“Upcoming NewSouth ‘Huck Finn’ Eliminates the ‘N’ Word”
Publisher’s Weekly: Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a classic by most any measure—T.S. Eliot called it a masterpiece, and Ernest Hemingway pronounced it the source of “all modern American literature.” Yet, for decades, it has been disappearing from grade school curricula across the country, relegated to optional reading lists, or banned outright, appearing again and again on lists of the nation’s most challenged books, and all for its
January 5, 2011
After the thrill (up his leg) is gone
Mouthbreathing bumpkin Birther Chris Matthews demands to see Barack Obama’s long-form birth certificate. The racist. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Oh, wait. He’s asking for the release so that he can help the President. Which is, like, totally different. My bad.