James Holmes’ psychiatrist warned campus police about his homicidal thoughts a month before his Aurora theater rampage.

After interceding to try to save the state’s anti-sodomy law earlier this week, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said his push had nothing to do with homosexuality. But back in 2009 he explained that “homosexual acts” are wrong, violate “natural law” and “should not be accommodated in government policy.”

It looks like we have a verdict on the wisdom of massive cuts in spending in the middle of an economic recovery.

Republican super donor Sheldon Adelson appeared in a Las Vegas court to testify about his Chinese casino deals.

Readers were greeted this morning by news that President Obama, the Democratic president, sometimes called the first liberal US president in almost half a century, is proposing cuts to Social Security in this years budget. This shouldn’t come as a great surprise. These are the ‘chained CPI’ cuts we’ve heard about for a while as what the president would be willing to put on the table in a so-called ‘grand bargain.’ So what’s going on here? Read More

Is this Senators’ Primer for How to Change Your Position on Marriage Equality having an effect? Sens. Donnelly (D-IN) and Heitkamp (D-ND) just switched their position.

A New York federal judge has ruled that the Food and Drug Administration must make emergency contraceptives (i.e., “the morning after pill”) available to women of all ages within 30 days.

The two biggest pieces of news today are that President Obama’s budget will reflect the tax and spending deal he offered House Speaker John Boehner last year — i.e. it will include the so-called Chained-CPI Social Security benefit cut — and that the March jobs numbers came in way lower than expected.

Some curdled cream in in your lukewarm coffee to start the day.

And just like coffee and cream, these stories are tightly linked, even though they appear to be unrelated. Read More

As if on cue, from the Speaker: “If the president believes these modest entitlement savings are needed to help shore up these programs, there’s no reason they should be held hostage for more tax hikes.”

Textbook. It’s what you invite when you pre-emptively move to the middle.

Let me start by saying I do not think this is a bad thing at all. But how much of a role is money playing in this rash of Senate Democrats switching on marriage equality? I think a lot. Read More