But we knew that, right? Today the five conservatives on the Supreme Court all refused to block a Texas law restricting abortions by requiring doctors who perform them to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. The court’s conservative majority refused the plea of Planned Parenthood and several Texas abortion clinics to overturn a preliminary federal …
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Another vote on a judicial nominee, another filibuster by Senate Republicans. For the third time in just as many weeks, Republicans filibustered another one of President Obama’s nominees to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Senate voted 53-28 today on a procedural vote on the nomination of Robert Wilkins to serve on the D.C. …
From the Concert for George.
Bah. Yesterday we had a Sears guy in to replace the ice maker in our fridge. This thing broke about six weeks after we bought the machine and did so one more time before we said “Okay, we don’t like maintenance contracts ordinarily but this thing is a lemon” and bought one. We have not …
I’m pretty sure that had President Obama said something like “If you’ve got an employer-provided health plan then you can keep it” he’d have been off the hook for all this foofaraw we’ve been hearing about insurance companies cancelling plans. The trouble is, everyone who was in the individual market took his “if you like …
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The Takeaway this morning had a story about a retiring cricket player in India. Apparently he’s the bee’s knees, the cat’s meow, the bomb. To cricket fans he’s Babe Ruth, Henry Aaron and Michael Jordan rolled into one. So what’s he gonna do in retirement? The reporter said “he’s probably going to sit down, take …
The number of states in the United States which have made same-sex marriage legal, that is. At 10:00AM today Governor Neil Abercrombie signed SB1, House Draft 1 into law. Any state legislators looking for the text of this historical law can find it here.
And away it goes to the Governor for signature. The Senate overwhelmingly approved the amended version of SB 1, the “Hawaii Marriage Equality Act of 2013” by a vote of 19 to 4. “Today’s passage of Senate Bill 1 marks a pivotal moment in our State’s history, a moment enshrined in equality and justice,” said …
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This is an actual headline at something called “The International Business Times”: Joe Scarborough Book Aims To Inspire Republicans, Knock Down Tea Party Extremists Well. I don’t know whether Charlie Pierce saw that headline or not, but in a blog post today he demolished the idea that Joe Scarborough is some sort of moderating voice …
“How dare that man tell us a story we didn’t bother to corroborate with his employers? Instead, we went with his story and it’s now blown up in our faces. “We been done wrong!” Well, no. You did wrong. You failed to check your source’s story. You claim to have been investigating this story for …