Newly released documents show that one of Josh Duggar’s alleged molestation victims was 5 years old.
Ed Kilgore points to new poll data which suggests the billionaire purchase of politics made possible by Citizens United – if approached in a smart way – could give Dems an opening with white working class voters. Check this out.
Jon Stewart: Iraq Is a “Cluster-Quagmire-Catastroph-F*ck”. Watch.
You cannot be in that much trouble if you are looking at the beginning of a long run for President, which will end almost a year and a half from now, and still lead every plausible opposition candidate. That’s where Hillary Clinton is right now. For various reasons, I still think her chances of being elected next November are good. But the latest polls do point to a real issue for her – not just the sort of nonsense you hear from media organizations who sponsor the polls or the hyperactive beltway horserace watchers.
Let’s look at the numbers.
Man charged with shooting at George Zimmerman in road rage incident plans ‘stand your ground’ defense.
We got a huge amount of feedback in response to my post yesterday about the Laura Kipnis story out of Northwestern, one of which I already published Tuesday afternoon. They ranged the gamut from hearty agreement to strenuous disagreement, with at least a few stuck in the sort of fatuous new-speak that I ridiculed in my original post. What was most interesting though is something one almost always finds in these sorts of cases, which is that people on either side of the issue were focusing on very different things, if not addressing very different questions.
So for instance, those who agreed with what I wrote were focusing on generational conflict, attempts to shoehorn Title IX law into a broader war to bludgeon opponents in a sort of campus culture war, while those who disagreed zeroing in on ways in which Kipnis seemed to poo-poo accusations which if proven count as criminal behavior under current law. What makes big debates so hard to get a handle on is that we’re usually arguing not just over the facts and ‘what’s right’ but often even more so over which facts or questions even matter.
France is expecting the Vatican to decide within days whether it will accept the country’s gay ambassador designee.
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A new academic study says that presidents of both parties are guided by the views of the wealthy and political elites and use polling shape public opinion of the population at large to serve those interests.