Andrew Sullivan's Blog, page 2834
June 21, 2010
Kagan On Religious Liberty
She strongly backed expanding it - at the expense of gay rights:
"I'm the biggest fan of [the Religious Freedom Restoration Act:] (now [the Religious Liberty Protection Act:]) in this building, but you should not take this advice right now," Kagan wrote in a May 20, 1999 memo to Ron Klain, then the chief of staff to Al Gore, the vice president. "You'll have a gay/lesbian firestorm on your hands. (Alternatively, if you come out for a version of RFRA that has a civil rights carve-out, you'll have...
Mental Health Break
Happy first day of summer:
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Goldblog Bait
Antisemitism - Jews - Race-Ethnic-Religious Relations - Hate - Religion
Use The EPA
Chait argues that because Congress has repeatedly failed to move on climate change, the EPA should step in:
[W:]hile EPA regulation would distance the issue from democraticaccountability, it would not remove it entirely. If the public objectedstrongly enough, it could vote for a Congress to overturn the EPAregulation. In practice, we accept this kind of rule-by-expert routinely.Monetary policy, once the most political of issues—i.e., WilliamJennings Bryan denouncing the "cross of gold"—is now...
The Nike Curse
Leave The Kids Alone
Erik Kain - Arts - Television - Saudi Arabia - United States
As The Fourth Estate Crumbles, Ctd
A reader writes:
I live in Seattle, in the area known as West Seattle. My local news and
information is far better provided by westseattleblog
than it ever was by the Seattle papers the Seattle Times and Seattle
PI.The papers duplicated national and international coverage I can find
elsewhere, and provide almost no truly local news. Now the west seattle blog does not provide coverage of state level
issues - I haven't found a blog for that yet, but I bet I will.
West...
Darkhorse Betting
Ariel Levy places all his chips on Huckabee for 2012:
Steve Schmidt told me, "Really, there's three primaries within the Republican primary. There's the primary that's the evangelical wing of the Party, there's the establishment primary, and there's usually a maverick of an insurgent category. Whoever occupies two out of the three is the nominee." It would not take a packaging genius to put Huckabee out as an evangelical insurgent. The next election will cost billions of dollars, and...
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