governor Chris Gregoire signed legislation today making same-sex-marriage legal for Washingtonians. This makes the seventh state to grant gay couples the right to get married. It also marks a second major victory for marriage equality advocates, after a court recently struck down a ban in California when it ruled Proposition 8 unconstitutional. This is good […]
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Newt Gingrich won’t be president. He represents the worst in every other GOP candidate. Mitt Romney must be getting dizzy. The number of Republican primary candidates whose suns have risen above him only to crash and burn later just keeps growing and growing. Each time one sun rises, a slew of new information and new […]
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With yet another woman accusing Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain of past sexual harassment, the former CEO’s days as a serious presidential contender are numbered. The crash and burn isn’t going to be pretty either. Cain was never meant to rise this high, and it’s likely the former Godfather’s Pizza boss didn’t ever expect old allegations […]
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Andrew Sullivan makes an odd assertion about a hypothetical Romney presidency: In office, Romney would be terrified of offending the far right. He would double down on no revenue increases, appoint Christianists to the Court, and think of GHW Bush as a cautionary tale. His very reputation for convenience will require more ideological rigidity in […]
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Despite being seen by voters as the most electable in a recent Washington Post/ABC poll, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is still struggling to break away from the pack: In the other five areas tested in the new survey, Romney shows no greater strength than other GOP contenders. On empathy, 21 percent say Cain is the one […]
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If you’re concerned about the deficit and you think that Rick Perry’s new tax proposal might be a good idea, you probably ought to take a look at this chart: It turns out that not only is this just a huge tax giveaway to the rich, Perry’s plan would actually raise $4.7 trillion fewer dollars […]
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I find most discussions of taxation mind-numbingly stupid. We have a terrible tax code. It’s full of bad incentives. It’s written by people in the thrall of public opinion or pledged to Grover Norquist’s silly no-new-taxes pledge. It’s an ad hoc disaster that makes many tax lawyers and tax software people very rich. Many people […]
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Mitt Romney and Rick Perry clash over immigration policy in last night’s Republican primary debate. Last night’s CNN GOP debate in Las Vegas has been widely described as the most heated of the debates so far, and the gloves really came off when Texas governor Rick Perry accused Mitt Romney of hiring undocumented workers – […]
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I want to recommend this chart-intensive post over at Business Insider for a really good illustration of why people are upset and should be protesting the vast and growing inequality in this country. However you parse the numbers, they simply don’t add up. Something is wrong and it needs to be fixed. And that’s why […]
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This response by an Occupy Wall Street protester to a Fox News reporter is pretty great – though surely Fox could have found a less eloquent, more ill-informed interlocutor? To my knowledge this was never aired anywhere but Youtube and various blogs. What Fox didn’t realize when they approached this guy is that he’s Jesse […]
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