Unqualified Offerings

By Mona

Interesting post at Sadly, No! about a vile commenter at TCS who wants us to “upgrade” the human gene pool via a “successful, gene-based eugenics program.” Brad posts a photo of Stephen Hawking to counter this depravity. But I wonder, some abortions are undertaken not for reasons of a woman’s [...]

By Mona
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David Brooks no doubt believes he insightfully parses the tensions in the current GOP that are driving the intelligent folk out, attributes it to the Burkeans having become low in the Party’s totem pole, and further characterizes neocons as adhering to the “creed” of Lincoln.
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In the meantime, former Republican [...]

By Thoreau
While those chicken littles of the libertarian blogosphere go on about civil liberties infringements, the Onion isn’t afraid to report the good news:
Third Amendment Rights Group Celebrates Another Successful Year
Freedom is on the march, I say!

Things they didn’t teach you in ninth-grade social studies:
Senate rules don’t explicitly provide for a “hold,” but the mechanism dates at least to Lyndon Johnson’s days as majority leader. A hold is basically a way of signaling the intent to filibuster, and by tradition, it can be filed anonymously.
Wow. It’s even easier to block [...]