Perhaps confused by the Christopher Lee photo episode a few weeks ago, Rep. David Wu apologized yesterday on “Good Morning America” for emailing staff Halloween pictures of him dressed as a tiger last fall. Unless it’s a very different tiger suit than the kind I’m imagining (or unless he was dressed not as a tiger, but as Tiger), it …
South Dakota shelves bill redefining “justifiable homicide” to (possibly, in the future) allow killing of doctors who perform abortions. Probably a good idea, since whether or not the bill actually would permit such acts hardly matters if anti-abortion activists think that it does. From the NYT:
Dave Leach, an Iowa anti-abortion
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Not exactly. South Dakota does have some of the nation’s most restrictive abortion laws–including, in violation of the Hyde Amendment, a ban on using state Medicaid funding to cover abortions when the pregnancy is a result of rape or incest. But a proposal to expand the definition of “justifiable homicide” to include resisting attempts …
Ever since the TSA started putting back-scatter devices into use at selected airports last fall, I’ve been waiting to have the chance to opt out and register a one-woman protest against the machines. (Jeff Goldberg doesn’t get to have all the fun.) However, most of my recent air travel has been with a tiny traveling companion, and I’ve …
After a week of dodging questions about why they thought the Hyde Amendment exceptions needed to be limited to victims of “forcible rape,” the GOP authors of H.R. 3 are dropping the word “forcible” from their bill. In an unrelated development, their wives and daughters have agreed to stop changing the locks at home.
By now you’ve no doubt heard that one of the signature bills of the new Republican majority, H.R. 3 or “The No Taxpayer Funding for Abortions Act,” seeks to make permanent bans on federal funding for almost all abortions by–among other things–limiting abortions for pregnancies caused by rape to those caused by “forcible rape.” No one …
Swampland alum KT pointed out to a few of us this weekend something we’d missed in the already much-discussed Sarah Palin video that followed the Tucson shooting: the American flag placed behind Palin to add a presidential air to the recording is on the wrong side.
Big deal, you say? Actually, yeah. The U.S. Flag code was passed …
Jumping off of my colleagues’ Palin posts yesterday, I think there’s one major reason why Palin would have a tough go of it if she ran in the 2012 GOP primaries.
(And that’s a BIG if. I don’t think she’ll do it. Palin’s playing coy for now because media interest in her would drop dramatically if she were no longer a “possible 2012 …
Of course, they don’t technically oppose repeal either, according to a letter the USCCB sent members of the House yesterday. But the letter–signed by the chairs of the USCCB’s committees on pro-life activities, domestic justice, and migration–did lay out three criteria that the bishops require in order to support health care …
Obama’s speech tonight contained some beautiful lines, the tone set by a quotation from my favorite Psalm, one of the most poetic and comforting passages in the Bible:
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
the holy place where the Most High dwells.
God is within her, she will not fall;
God will help her at
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Hey, everybody–I’m back from maternity leave. Anything happen while I was gone?
Sigh. I’ve been spending more time reading Pigeon books than political pages lately, so I may be a little rusty. But it took me a few minutes of watching Sarah Palin’s video message this morning to realize that it wasn’t an OnionTV production starring an …
Thank God. Can we go back to ignoring this guy now? I thought it was worth noting way back in July when the crazy “Burn a Qu’ran Day” was first announced, especially because it seemed to me then–and still now–that political conservatives like Newt Gingrich needed to either accept some responsibility for the Islamo-hatred they were …
With all due respect to my colleagues, this focus on religion and God isn’t anything new from Glenn Beck. His most recent foray has been a sustained attack this year on churches that preach “social justice,” arguing just a month ago that “Social justice isn’t in the Bible.” Beck had to alter his message slightly for this weekend’s event, …
