I’m not in favor of the death penalty. Too many people have been proven not guilty after organizations like The Innocence Project have managed to get DNA test results into appeals processes. Better the guilty stay alive than one innocent man or woman be killed by the state. Events last night in Oklahoma just reinforced …
But how about forcing him to sell the team? There’s the rub. Silver has also recommended that NBA owners effectively force Sterling to sell the Clippers. The NBA has a procedure in place for this extraordinary action, but the procedure contains enough ambiguity that debate among owners is likely. Under article 13 of the league’s …
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There’s not a whole lot of sympathy toward the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe or the United States, but sentencing 683 members of the group to death after a two-day group trial might just raise some. An Egyptian court sentenced the leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and 682 supporters to death on Monday, intensifying a …
Curiosity is trying to determine whether a piece of sandstone would be an appropriate place to drill for a specimen to analyze. This piece of sandstone, to be precise. What is it and NASA looking for? John Grotzinger, Curiosity Project Scientist from the California Institute of Technology, said in a statement, “We want to learn …
This time it’s about race, not about the plot of the lower class to take his money. The LA Clippers NBA team has an owner named Donald Sterling, and he’s a sleazy fat old slumlord of a man. That in itself is distasteful but not worth discussing. However, the other day he sounded off to …
“When the Master Calls the Roll,” from “The River & The Thread,” Rosanne Cash’s latest album. It’s a song of the Civil War.
How can the son of a noted and much-admired liberal like Mario Cuomo become a Blue Dog Democrat who would stand with hedge fund managers and against unions? It’s hard to believe, but that’s clearly what Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York has done. In a recent fight about locating and funding charter schools in …
Headline: Georgia Passes Sweeping Expansion of Gun Carry Laws Upshot (heh!): If you have a license to carry a weapon in Georgia, you can take that gun virtually anywhere. Churches, because the clergyman might suddenly espouse evolution as the true way of the world. Schools, because you never know when some mouthy teacher might tell …
The spite toward Democrats and Obama and the dismissal of the health care of nearly half-a-million poor people in their states as unimportant is almost unbelievable. From TPM: Under bills passed in Georgia and Kansas recently, even if a Democratic candidate were to pull off an upset and take the governor’s seat, they would not …
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“I am an Easter Dog.” From Events