Also-ran in GOP primary for U.S. Senate says ranchers should be allowed to shoot on sight “wetbacks” crossing the border illegally.
Ed Kilgore on the Arizona anti-LGBT law and how the “religious liberty” crusade shows signs of backfiring.
If you’re new to the story of the anti-gay discrimination bill in Arizona (or is it the pro gay discrimination bill?), you may not know that Arizona isn’t the only state considering such legislation. Similar bills have been introduced this year in Tennessee, Kansas, Idaho, and Mississippi. Here’s the rundown we did earlier. Also, Georgia.
You won’t believe this, but without the three GOP state senators in Arizona who now say they regret their votes, the controversial anti-gay discrimination bill would not have passed in the first place.
Once biggest Bitcoin exchange goes belly-up amid reports of $350 million theft.
Since the election of Barack Obama and the concomitant rise of Tea Party Republicanism, there’s been more and more reaching back to the discredited ideas of nullification, interposition and even, at the truly fringe extreme, secession. They are each efforts to preserve power for disempowered minorities after they’ve lost battles in the standard majoritarian system. More simply, they’re workarounds to get out of the consequences of losing political fights. And by definition they are rearguard actions. American history and constitutional jurisprudence has consistently ruled against them. This new raft of ‘religious liberty’ bills to allow you to keep discriminating against gay people simply continue the same pattern. They just move it to purported 1st Amendment grounds.
Virtual currencies like Bitcoin seems to create huge efficiencies for losing all your money.
We’re discussing the wages of Bitcoin here at The Hive (sub req).
This is pretty amazing. Fox is resurrecting the crudest and most discredited defenses of slavery and the Confederacy, arguing that slavery was on the way out and that the South was willing to let it go. It was just Lincoln who decided to launch a murderous and costly war for no reason. John Stewart takes it from there.
I’ve gotten quite a response to the piece I wrote yesterday about leaving academics for journalism and publishing. I’ve published a few emails and gotten many more. But I’ve refrained from posting most of them since, more than usual, they’re intertwined with personally identifying information that isn’t really possible to strip out. But there are a few points people have raised that I wanted to address.
This is much less accessible to a mass American audience than Pope Francis’s statements on gays or the poor or a lot else. But this headline ‘Founder of Liberation Theology Hailed at Vatican‘ would have been unimaginable at any time in the last 35 years.