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July 9, 2010
Will The DOMA Ruling Be Overturned?
Judge Tauro's opinions invalidate DOMAon two grounds: it invidiously discriminates against same-sex couplesin violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the FourteenthAmendment, and it invades states' prerogative to define marriage inviolation of the Tenth Amendment. Jack correctly observed, in this blog and in statements quoted in a front page story in the New York Times,that the second of these is a lousy argument with mischievousimplications...
How Exactly Do We Split The Taliban?
It's not as easy as you might think.
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Face Of The Day
Mike Tyson attends a press conference held at Just Cvalle Cafe on July 9, 2010 in Milan, Italy. By Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images.
Milan - Italy - Tyson - Mike Tyson - Boxing
That UAE Ambassador
Yes, he's scared of Iran. But here's part of the interview that Jeffrey Goldberg did not highlight:
YOUSEF AL OTAIBA: For [Obama:] to really make progress on the Iran issue and to deal with extremism and to deal with terrorism in the region, to deal with radicalized home-grown terrorism in the U.S., you need to address the [Israel-Palestine:] peace process. That is the one core issue everyone tends to blame, and that's what the people hang all their problems on. Well, the Palestinians are...
The World In 2400, Ctd
Manzi replies to Ezra Klein:
When thinking about time after 2100, we have, in cartoon terms
choices: (i) simply treat it as unknowable fog, or (ii) attempt
guess. I think that if we take the first choice, then we simply try
forecast through the next century, and let future generations
about the world beyond 2100 (though I'll point out that it is a
unusual political debate in which we call trying to manage the
world for about the next 100 years as...
The Case Against AC, Ctd
Andrew Leonardyes explains how AC use increases global warming, which increases temperatures, which increases AC use:
There's no doubt that high temperatures translateimmediately into increased burning of fossil fuels-- and, inevitably, increased concentrations of greenhouse gasesreleased into the atmosphere. This year is on track to be one of thehottest years in the historical record. If fossil fuel consumption iscontributing to a warmer world, then our efforts to cool ourselves areonly...
Where Most Analysts Agree, Ctd
Keith Hennessey explains the Republican position on extending unemployment benefits.
Unemployment - United States - Republican - Politics - Parties
A Breakthrough Against HIV? Ctd
A reader writes:
As a budding scientist who has been involved in the HIV field, it is rather frustrating to see media reports of the latest breakthrough in research without a full understanding of the findings and their significance (not that the medical establishment is not complicit … we put out these press releases in order to justify continued research money). As you are well aware, the field had been fraught with repeated false hopes and, after more than two decades of trying, we are no...
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