North Carolina AG says his office will stop defending the state’s same-sex marriage ban in the Courts after today’s Virginia ruling because, under current law (the emerging judicial consensus over the meaning of Windsor) there just aren’t any arguments left to make.
US officials are “fuming” in the AP’s words at the barrage of Israeli criticism of Secretary of States John Kerry. But as Chemi Shalev notes in Haaretz, there’s a deeper backstory. Nothing gets the Obama administration’s ire up like the perception (very often grounded in reality) that Netanyahu and his government ministers are trying to scuttle his initiatives by inveigling themselves into domestic partisan conflict in the US. Specifically, using GOP proxies as cut-outs to push back against the President’s initiatives.
Satanists cite Hobby Lobby decision for exemption to anti-abortion laws.
The momentum is moving so fast against same sex marriage bans they’re now striking them down by batch. Today, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina.
Late Update: There seems to be uncertainty about whether this ruling applies beyond Virginia. We’ll update you as we know more.
Trustees say Obamacare will help extend the solvency of Medicare.
Mississippi Governor (R) blames Obamacare for rising rate of uninsured in his state after blocking most implementation of Obamacare in his state.
Thoughts on the slow, chaotic demise of the death penalty in America.
Mississippi Gov. blames President Obama for reported jump in the states uninsured rate after refusing to accept Medicaid expansion or set up a state exchange.
Over the last eighteen months, we’ve made an on-going effort to highlight various cases of accidental shootings – sometimes leading to grave injuries, other times to minor ones, but usually illustrating the straightforward fact that guns are dangerous and people often do stupid things with them. Like showing them off to friends while they’re loaded, or showing them off when the gun is loaded and the gun-shower is also loaded, or leaving them unsecured where 3 year olds can find them and blow their heads off. But frequently, and increasingly of late, we get emails from readers criticizing our decision to call these shootings ‘accidents’ because that is not, in their view, what they are.