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~ Saturday, February 2 ~
~ Thursday, August 23 ~
~ Friday, June 29 ~
Judicial Activism Redux
The charges of “judicial activism” came about as a result of the 1973 abortion decision of Roe v. Wade. That started the conservatives’ effort to change the composition of the Court. That was a case filed by one individual contesting Texas’ law on the books at that time. Contrast that with the two-year campaign to try to overturn Obama’s healthcare bill through litigation. That became official Republican policy, with 26 attorneys general participating (some over the objections of Democratic governors). Should a political party that lost on legislation passed by Congress (as opposed to a private litigant) try to overturn it in court? I could be wrong, but I’m not sure there’s a precedent for that.
~ Friday, June 22 ~
~ Sunday, June 10 ~
“ The institutional structure of the United States is under stress. We might be in dangerous economic straits if the dollar were not the principal international reserve currency and the eurozone in deep fiscal trouble. We have a huge public debt, dangerously neglected infrastructure, a greatly overextended system of criminal punishment, a seeming inability to come to grips with grave environmental problems such as global warming, a very costly but inadequate educational system, unsound immigration policies, an embarrassing obesity epidemic, an excessively costly health care system, a possible rise in structural unemployment, fiscal crises in state and local governments, a screwed-up tax system, a dysfunctional patent system, and growing economic inequality that may soon create serious social tensions. Our capitalist system needs a lot of work to achieve proper capitalist goals.” — Judge Richard Posner, 7th Circuit Court of Appeals
~ Wednesday, May 9 ~
“ If your upbringing or pastor or background or whatever leads you to hate total strangers because of who they love, where they live, what they look like, how they worship or if they worship, if you have devoted yourself to an ‘Us’ or ‘Them’ mentality and refuse to abandon such poison, if you have no ears to hear, but instead choose to pursue a course of vitriol and division, here is a truth: we will break you across our knee like so much kindling.” - William Rivers Pitt
~ Monday, May 7 ~
I just have to go here. I know that “I’m not Jesus but I play him in a theme park” will wash away all my sins.
~ Friday, May 4 ~
Secrets of the Affordable Care Act
Here’s what’s wrong with politics today: “The Affordable Care Act, the health care bill that passed without a single Republican vote, was basically the Republican alternative that had been written to oppose the Clinton health care plan in 1993 by several people, including Chuck Grassley and Orrin Hatch, current senators who now denounce those same ideas as socialistic.” — Norman Ornstein, congressional scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute
~ Monday, April 30 ~
“ Given the damage done by the pedophilia scandals, she said, “the church’s obsession, at times, with the sexual relationships is a serious problem.” Ya think??
~ Thursday, April 26 ~
“ That’s right: the heathens, the goat fuckers, the pornographers, the child molesters, the orgy-havers, the sin-eaters and the Onanists are the majority now. There was also a marked increase in one-person “households,” which is a “household” only in the sense that “lonely bastard copulating with his Real Doll™ brand sex toy” is a “household.” Sin is winning. “Get with it,” Mormons.
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