This is hard to believe. Maggie Gallagher, a conservative who fights against marriage equality, is taking her opponents to task for being mean and hateful. This is a bit like Charles Manson saying that other people don’t have the proper respect for humanity. Not that Gallagher is, in any way, similar to Manson. It’s just [...]
The LA Times has a vague, but ominous warning about the federal deficit. They write: President Obama’s critics naturally want to blame the geyser of red ink on the grand ambitions of his administration, including the $787-billion stimulus package and expensive new health insurance subsidies. Longtime budget analysts, however, have seen this problem coming for [...]
From Richard Cohen’s column: The questions of what constitutes torture and what to do with those who, maybe innocently, applied what we now define as torture have to be removed from the political sphere. They cannot be the subject of an ideological tug of war, both sides taking extreme and illogical positions — torture never [...]
