On the Laura Ingram show Thursday, Rand Paul said that he would have supported the Civil Rights Act in 1964, and still supports it. Though he retains some concern over government dictating to business:
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Today, in the print magazine, David Von Drehle, lays out the surging fury that voters have been showing for political authority at the ballot box this year.
The natives are restless. Americans of all persuasions at last agree on something. It is a message to their leaders that starts with F and ends with u.
At Politics Daily, Walter …
On Tuesday night as Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter took the stage to give his concession speech he thanked the crowd and remarked at the large number of media in the room – which nearly doubled the size of his audience. “Look at all these reporters, I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many,” he said chuckling lightly at his …
The electoral inadvisability of discussing his views on the 1964 Civil Rights Act have dawned on Rand Paul. He has abandoned his first instinct to defend himself on abstract, philosophical grounds and shifted to a more political tack.
“I will not support any efforts to repeal the Civil Rights Act of 1964,” he says in a statement, not …
For the good of America, do not watch Bravo’s forthcoming Real Housewives of D.C., or buy the forthcoming Salahi action figure, or Halloween costume, or read their might-be-published 500-page book. Giving them, champions of our asinine nothing-based culture, anything at this point would be akin to handing a toddler a lollipop for …
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Politicians, especially Democratic politicians, have perennially talked about the “crisis” in education–the need to hire scads of new teachers (especially recently as baby boomers retire). Somehow the crisis has never materialized. I suspect, it never existed in the first place–there are always plenty of young people who want to be …
Jonathan Cohn may be the smartest, most well-sourced health care writer in the country. When I was first assigned to the health care beat in early 2009, his book Sick was among my required reading.
Today, he unveils the first in a series of five pieces that explain how the White House and congressional Democrats passed health care …
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On the meaning of the diplomatic wranglings over Iran’s nuclear program–beyond Iran.
UPDATE: Thursday on the Laura Ingram show, Rand Paul responded to last night’s Rachel Maddow interview.
The libertarian approach, which heavily favors private rights over government rights, has always produced some interesting conversations. Most libertarians, for instance, don’t own a bong or watch extremely violent pornography, but …
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–The Senate’s financial reform legislation will get another cloture vote this afternoon. Despite Wednesday’s 57-42 failure, it seems likely the bill will clear today’s procedural hurdle. Arlen Specter, who wasn’t back in Washington for yesterday’s vote, is expected to be present. …
Sure, yesterday’s primaries sent the signal that just about everyone outside the Beltway loathes just about everyone inside the Beltway. But there is one guy here who’s coming out of this a king maker. A profile of Senator Jim DeMint and his crop of candidates.
Beyoncé is performing. The striped linens are in three shades of “Mayan blue.” There will be “Fuchsia Cattleya orchids,” “Oregon Wagyu Beef in Oaxacan Black Mole,” and toasted marshmallows. All the details after the jump.
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Michelle Obama joined Mexico’s first lady, Margarita Zavala, at a school in suburban Washington DC today, where everyone ran around, bounced balls and talked about sports. But during the Q&A that followed, a second grade student asked a question that was more piercing than …
