I did not know this. After Bernie Sanders graduated from University of Chicago in 1964, he went to Israel and lived on a Kibbutz for six months. When he got back to the states, he moved to Vermont.
Here’s Rick Perlstein’s look at Sanders’ time at U Chicago.
If there’s anything amusing about this morning’s FIFA raid and indictments, it’s that most of the stories hasten to point out — often in the headline — that FIFA president Sepp Blatter was not himself indicted. Because any story about FIFA corruption usually begins and ends with Blatter. The New York Times, for example: FIFA Officials Are Arrested on Corruption Charges; Sepp Blatter Isn’t Among Them. For a point of reference, here’s that remarkable Sepp Blatter takedown from John Oliver last summer.
It is increasingly difficult to find any unifying theory or rationale behind the Supreme Court’s election and election financing decisions other than the goal of securing the electoral interests of the Republican party. That sounds harsh. But a simple process of elimination leaves little other conclusion. States rights, originalism, deference to legislatures, various constructions of democratic theory and a lot else are controlling except when they’re not controlling. Most of the decisions line up with the conservative jurisprudence espoused by the Court’s conservative semi-majority. Except when they don’t. Cases are plucked out of the lower courts long before the high court has any obligation or need to intervene. The new case which will review the ‘one person, one vote’ rule which has been reining law for half a century would likely diminish the voting power of cities vs rural areas, minorities vs whites and Democrats vs Republicans, if decided on behalf of the plaintiffs. In other words, why not? It’s a big deal. Here’s our 5 Points run-down about what you need to know about this case.
We treat it as a given today that denying the scientific consensus on climate change is something close to an orthodoxy in the Republican party. Meanwhile a major faction of the party is similarly opposed to teaching evolutionary theory and the science of natural selection. But this squabbling around the GOP’s new Supreme Court challenge to Obamacare captures a similar but even more striking dimension to the same phenomenon: A comically willful rewriting of history that seems so eagerly, perhaps slavishly embraced that it is not even clear whether the people arguing the latest zig or zag in the party line know it’s nonsense or whether ideological commitment and peer pressure has convinced them that the new marching orders are really the truth.
Marco Rubio: “We are at the water’s edge of the argument that mainstream Christian teaching is hate speech …”
Five years after ACORN shut down, it still holds amazing sway in the conservative imagination. Behold the latest missive from My Conservative Inbox.
Former Sen. Snowe (R): Latest Republican Supreme Court challenge to Obamacare is built on lies.
Supreme Court will consider case that would redefine ‘One Person, One Vote’ rule.
You may remember that long before Pamela Geller’s Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas which came under armed attack this month, she and her fringey anti-Muslim group had been placing controversial ads in big city transit systems. Now they’re upping their game considerably, preparing to launch a new ad campaign in the DC transit system but unlike the others this ad includes the winning cartoon from the contest, which of course is a depiction of Muhammad. Fun times all around.
An amazing interview with the Texas ‘militia’ leader who is on the verge of having his militia recognized as the official armed force of Orange County Texas.
