Romney unconcerned that Donald Trump is championing birther conspiracy...
CNN has the story: “Mitt Romney said Monday he wasn’t concerned about Donald Trump’s commitment to the ‘birther’ conspiracy , one day before the GOP presidential candidate hosts a fund-raiser...
View ArticleGoodwin Liu, Dawn Johnsen and The Danger Of Keeping Our First String on The...
Calirfornia Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu For the second time in three years, the American Constitution Society’s national convention — an annual gathering of many of the top progressive attorneys...
View ArticleInnocence and Experience: Rewatching ‘The Wire’ Part 2
This post contains spoilers for episodes 1 through 6 of the first season of The Wire. Feel free to discuss events that happen beyond these episodes in comments, but if you do so, label your comments...
View ArticleLaw & Disorder, Or, On Loving Judge Dredd and She-Hulk
“Every woman adores a fascist.” -Sylvia Plath “We drove past the hatchery, / the hut that sells bait, / past Pigeon Cove, past the Yacht Club, past Squall’s Hill, / to the house that waits still, / on...
View ArticleOlympic Movie Festival: ‘Bend It Like Beckham,’ Revisited
With the Olympics coming up, questions of gender are already in the air, from sponsorship for American weightlifter Sarah Robles, to the presence of out soccer star Megan Rapinoe on the Olympic...
View Article‘Breaking Bad’ Open Thread: So Sorry
This post contains spoilers through the second episode of the fifth season of Breaking Bad. When I wrote, prior to the beginning of Breaking Bad’s final episode, that the key to understanding Walter...
View ArticleFather and Child: ‘Ben & Kate,’ ‘Guys With Kids,’ and ‘The New Normal’ Take...
If last year was the he-cession television season, with a series of unsuccessful shows about the struggles of men to stay financially solvent in the downturn, this is the year of the stay-at home...
View ArticleExposing Liberal Lies: Criminal Conduct By Planned Parenthood?
Planned Parenthood really needs to be shut down, never to be opened again. America's largest abortion mill is not looking out for the interests of women
View ArticleElizabeth Banks Gets Personal About Planned Parenthood in New …
The actress praises President Barack Obama's support for women's rights and says he "needs to stay in office"
View ArticleBiden: Mitch McConnell vowed no cooperation with the Obama administration...
I downloaded Michael Grunwald's The New New Deal earlier this week, but I haven't yet fired up the Kindle to start reading it.
View ArticleReview!: Juul: The Murder of Halland
Martin Aitken; Peirene Press, London; 189 pp.; ISBN 978-1-908670-05-2 [originally published 2009 in Danish].
View ArticleEconomicPolicyJournal.com: Billionaire Soros Engaged at 82
The evil billionaire George Soros is to marry again at age 82 after getting engaged to girlfriend Tamiko Bolton, reports NyPo's Page Six. A source told Page Six, “George planned a surprise announcement...
View Article‘Columbine,’ ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin,” Jared Lee Loughner’s Competency...
After the shooting at a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado in July, I finally started reading Dave Cullen’s Columbine , which I finished just as word broke that a white...
View ArticleLimbaugh Dismantles Akin’s Junk Science, While Competitor Huckabee Guilts...
When Mike Huckabee’s radio show debuted in April, one of the ways Cumulus Media positioned his entry into the market was as a classier alternative to Rush Limbaugh. At the time, Limbaugh was in the...
View ArticleCalifornia School District Teaches Students To Prevent STDs With ‘Plenty Of...
Students in a Fresno County, California, school district are taught that HIV can be spread through kissing, and the right way to prevent STDs is by going out in groups with friends, getting plenty of...
View ArticleAnn Romney Wants Hispanic Voters To Get Past ‘Their Biases’
Fresh off her convention speech Tuesday night, Ann Romney spent Wednesday wooing two of the GOP’s toughest audiences: women and Hispanic voters. At a lunch event Wednesday, Romney explained why...
View ArticleWhat ‘Treme,’ And ‘Breaking Bad’ Tell Us About The Limits of Television
Emily Nussbaum, the television critic at the New Yorker, writes in an even-handed review of David Simon’s HBO series about New Orleans, Treme , which was just renewed for a shortened fourth season,...
View ArticleMelody Johnson: Phony? Fox Guest Has To Correct Fox Anchor On Clinton’s...
Fox News anchor Jon Scott promoted the debunked claim that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accused certain women of "whining." In fact, Clinton was actually talking about the character Holden...
View ArticleAccused Rapists Scribbled Messages All Over 15-Year-Old Audrie Pott’s...
In an emotional press conference on Monday, Lisa Pott, whose stepdaughter Audrie killed herself last fall after allegedly being raped, read a series of Audrie’s Facebook messages sent shortly before...
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