Tag Archives: Conservatism

The next battle over abortion

Posted on March 7, 2014 by

Awful: There were 44 facilities that performed abortions in Texas in 2011, abortion providers said. After the two closings on Thursday, there are now 24, they said. When the law is fully implemented in September, that number is expected to … Continue reading →

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Rep. Trey Gowdy: mandatory sentences made little sense for minor offenses

Posted on March 4, 2014 by

Bipartisanship! While a range of judges, prosecutors and public defenders have for years raised concerns about disparities in punishment, it is this alliance that may make politically possible the most significant liberalization of sentencing laws since President Richard M. Nixon … Continue reading →

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“Will Judge Sarah Zabel do to our voting rights what Bull Connor did to our civil rights?”

Posted on February 15, 2014 by

I’m sure this tactic will work. With Florida’s gay-marriage ban threatened in Miami court, social conservatives launched a counteroffensive Friday, accusing same-sex union proponents of opposing civil rights. The new argument from the Christian Family Coalition and other groups adopts … Continue reading →

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The conservative base now: punishing the poor

Posted on February 11, 2014 by

It doesn’t matter how often we remind Republicans that the Affordable Care Act was born in the early nineties as a sensible “market-friendly” alternative to Bill and Hillary’s Communist plot to make Americans government slaves. What’s going on in Arkansas … Continue reading →

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Why Wall Street so sad: “That kind of scare is not easy to forget.”

Posted on January 28, 2014 by

Reminding audiences that its excellent reporting can’t quite mitigate the sordidness of its editorial page, The Wall Street Journal ran a string of syllables by a sad venture capitalist named Tom Perkins who despite not knowing what words mean got … Continue reading →

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“Dessert, American style…”

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Reagan on MLK’s purported Communist sympathies: “We’ll know in 35 years, won’t we?”

Posted on January 20, 2014 by

Lest we forget, support for a federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. was not popular with the right (It’s worth noting the House Republican supporters of a holiday: Dick Cheney, Newt Gingrich, Hamilton Fish, Henry Hyde, Dan Coats, Jack … Continue reading →

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Mass. buffer zones “target one form of peaceful speech—protesting abortion and trying to talk women out of it.”

Posted on January 16, 2014 by

I’m torn about McCullen v. Coakley (put in plain English here). To my non-legal mind the state acted under the clear and present clause (was it cited in the state’s brief? I don’t know) to protect employees of a legit … Continue reading →

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Krugman: “The problem of poverty has become part of the broader problem of rising income inequality”

Posted on January 10, 2014 by

Responding to evidence that LBJ’s “war on poverty” did produce quantifiable results, Paul Krugman points to the real reasons for the persistence of poverty: And if progress against poverty has nonetheless been disappointingly slow — which it has — blame … Continue reading →

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Chris Christie aide: “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee”

Posted on January 8, 2014 by

This doesn’t look for Governor Bipartisan, the Great White Dope of 2016: emails and texts show his aides did close lanes on the New Jersey side of the George Washington Bridge to punish a Democratic mayor who didn’t love Governor … Continue reading →

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Ben Sasse: move the capital from DC to Nebraska

Posted on January 6, 2014 by

A thought experiment usually requires thought: Nebraska Senate candidate Ben Sasse has a proposal: move the Capitol from Washington D.C. to Nebraska. “That’s it, the way to cure the incredible ineffectiveness and dysfunction of both parties in Washington — we … Continue reading →

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War on Poverty: it worked!

Posted on January 5, 2014 by

Conservatives will chortle at the source of this revelation, but I’m pleased these facts about Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty appeared in the Newspaper of Record: Still, a broad range of researchers interviewed by The New York Times stressed the … Continue reading →

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