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June 2013

June 26, 2013

Texas women stand up to bullying

Sen. Wendy Davis planned to filibuster the bill, but its supporters weren't worried. Texas' rules...

June 26, 2013

DOMA unconstitutional; Prop 8 goes away

For more than a dozen years, supporters of DOMA, the federal law banning the recognition...

June 26, 2013

Hey, remember back when we used to have a Voting Rights Act?

Well, the 15th Amendment was nice while it lasted. And thanks to the Voting Rights...

June 12, 2013

If work is a responsibility, then work is also a right

Stephen Fincher seems to be confused about several things. He's confused about how food stamps...

June 10, 2013

Scenes from the class war

The same old story from two more manufactured-home neighborhoods; lecturing the poor while cutting food...

June 07, 2013

Is the NSA biting off more data than it can chew?

My point here is not to say, "Don't worry, they don't know what they're doing,"...

June 06, 2013

Tabitha, Lydia and the menace of female breadwinners threatening our ‘complementary relationships’

Erick Erickson: "Liberals who defend [women working] and say it is not a bad thing...

June 06, 2013

Smart people saying smart things

Mary Elizabeth Williams wonders if the Catholic bishops are "even trying to make sense on...

May 2013

May 30, 2013

Dives will always be with us — and so will selfish rich jackwagons who misquote the Bible

Rep. Stephen Fincher, Republican of Tennessee, be careful that you do not entertain a mean...

May 29, 2013

‘Pro-life’ groups still not speaking up for pregnant workers

If you claim to be "pro-life" and yet you don't support the Pregnant Workers Fairness...

May 25, 2013

Scenes from the class war

Workers want to be treated as "human;" restaurants screw women of color on wages even...

May 19, 2013

Jubilee: Why Old Man Potter is bad for business in Bedford Falls

Old Man Potter collects that $3.3 billion in interest every year and only spends part...

May 09, 2013

Money can’t buy happiness, but it does buy protection from certain forms of unhappiness

Here's what we humans already knew and have known since before we started writing things...

May 07, 2013

Blade Runner, Terminator, Minority Report and the deliberate sabotage of the Postal Service

Americans like the Postal Service. They rely on it and rely on being able to...

May 01, 2013

Steal someone’s house, then write bad checks

An American story in three parts: 1) Four million families lose their homes due to...

April 2013

April 30, 2013

Scenes from the class war

The class war continues and most people are not on the side that's winning. Lots...

April 24, 2013

Dear Regal theaters: It’s the customers, stupid

How big a boost to Regal's bottom line will health care reform provide? I'm guessing...

April 20, 2013

Senators clarify the terms of the disagreement

We can all get along. We can all agree that one side of this issue...

April 10, 2013

Luckily, this is not difficult

A collection of Wednesday-morning links around a common theme. Unfortunately, this bunch tends more toward...

April 04, 2013

Scenes from the class war

You need to make $18.79 an hour to reasonably afford to rent an apartment. GOP...

March 2013

March 27, 2013

Social Security benefits should be going up, not the land-rent for seniors

"Residents of the Greenbriar Village development say owner Equity LifeStyle Properties has been unjustly increasing...

March 27, 2013

‘PIB’ — the flailing desperation of the but-what-about polygamy, incest & bestiality slippery-slope claim

The pattern of PIB will be familiar if you've ever discussed marriage equality with relatives,...

March 26, 2013

Birth certificates and bathrooms in Arizona

Columnist Brahm Resnik worries that this bill would, in effect, require all transgendered persons in...

March 21, 2013

For Sen. Portman, Sen. Kirk and the rest of us: The next big step is the important one

What we earlier saw with Sen. Mark Kirk is still true for Sen. Rob Portman....

March 15, 2013

So’s your mother

I seem to have collected a bunch of links having to do with gender and...

March 14, 2013

More scenes from the class war

Wells Fargo mocks fairness, kills man; paying minimum wage is theft; Business Week says cover...

March 12, 2013

‘On the side of the underdog, always and everywhere’

This is not a question of liberal vs. conservative politics, but of the same conviction...

March 11, 2013

When talk of ‘civil disobedience’ is just masturbation

Marriage equality does not affect Southern Baptists at all. It does not require them to...

March 11, 2013

More on what civil disobedience can and cannot do

Civil disobedience can be a powerful tool for challenging unjust laws. It can be, and...

March 11, 2013

Let’s do something about this

This video seems to be everywhere. It needs to be everywhere. "We need to worry...

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