March 2012
18 posts
Justice Breyer and Zombies
This, from Joe Carlson, really did happen during arguments over Obamacare at the Supreme Court this week:
Twice during the proceedings, Breyer fixated on a mysterious illness “sweeping the nation,” intoning his hypothetical in the terms of some legal thriller-cum-apocalypse flick: “A disease is sweeping the United States, and 40 million people are susceptible, of whom 10 million will die,”...
Deaf supporter tells Obama he's proud of him....
I’m trying to imagine Mitt Romney pulling this off.
The Right's Favorite Muslim Activist
My profile of Zuhdi Jasser, the Christian right funded Muslim activist who has been defending the NYPD’s surveillance of Muslims:
When controversy over the so-called Ground Zero mosque erupted, Jasser, a frequent guest on Fox News, accused the builders of trying to “diminish what happened” on September 11, 2001. He has supported statewide bans on Shariah law in American courts...
The Trayvon Martin Killing, Explained →
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How did immigration hardliner Kris Kobach, who is advising Mitt Romney, learn to place his faith in “self-deportation,” or the idea that government can make life so miserable for undocumented immigrants that they just leave?
From Muslim dragnets post-9/11.
Kobach said inspiration for the policy came from personal experience in the post-Sept. 11, 2001, Justice Department run by...
“The comment that pleased me the most this week came in an email from my...”
– Garry Trudeau, in an interview with Slate.
-CA
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Bridging the gap with a dream: A Jewish...
haaretz:
French Jewish architect Marc Mimram has an idea that borders on the utopian: to build a huge, multistoried bridge stretching 37 kilometers in order to physically connect the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the two areas under Palestinian Authority rule.
The plan, made public for the first time in the pages of Haaretz, is for a bridge that would rise to a height of 20 meters above the...
Milloy's White Women Problem And Ours
I think what Courtland Milloy is trying to do in this column is argue that white women and black women have similar interests despite their socio-economic differences, but I don’t know about this execution:
I confess to rarely seeing a white woman as angry as Doyle appeared in the photograph, an image captured by Bob Brown of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. With teeth clenched, eyes ablaze,...
On Rush Limbaugh
“So we’re talking about Rush, the target over which the Left obsesses because he is so effective — he is able to reach and to teach because, as he noted today, his good-natured humor can be biting and illuminating without being nasty.”
— This lunatic.
It’s the “as he noted today” that does it. Almost like he wouldn’t have been totally comfortable...
Digby On Dems' Body Count Bluster
A very important point:
I’ll let Glenn Greenwald and other informed critics of the drone operations make the detailed case against them. For me, the idea that a president’s foreign policy success is based upon how many remote killings he’s approved is simply repulsive, particularly in the context of calling the previous president a “wuss” for failing to approve more...
Lex Luthor Explains Why He's Evil
Okay so it’s actually the Flash in Lex Luthor’s body.
