The Maryland state legislature has legalized gay marriage. Some citizens, though, as is their right, have circulated a petition calling for a referendum on the issue. So the D.C. area gay newspaper, The Washington Blade, published the names of the people who signed the petition,
Evangelicals and Mormons together: Shortly after Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney enjoyed cookies and soft drinks with the Rev. Billy Graham and his son Franklin Graham on Thursday at the elder Graham’s mountaintop retreat, a reference to Mormonism as a cult was scrubbed from the
Thanks for the live blog from last night. So who won this debate? Do you think the more aggressive stance from Obama, with the two candidates getting into each other’s space and into each other’s face, paid off? How will this debate play with undecided
The New York Review of Books has published a rather remarkable article by Elisabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern, a detailed account of the ways Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his family opposed the Nazi regime. You might be familiar with Bonhoeffer’s activities–though I learned a lot I
In a postmodern, objectively irrelevant, subjectivist, “I like this” kind of way: HT: Anthony Sacramone.
Here we go again. For our not-necessarily-alcoholic drinking game, let’s knock one back when we hear the following words (and thanks for your suggestions, from which some of these are drawn): (1) Look (2) Big Bird (3) Arithmetic (4) 47% (5) We can do better
Tonight is the second of the presidential candidate debates, this one in a “town hall” format, with undecided voters posing the questions. We now see that the debates do matter, as Mitt Romney’s good performance and Barack Obama’s bad performance put the Republican back into
When countries (and, as we have seen, states) raise taxes on “the rich,” the rich have been escaping to jurisdictions with lower taxes. Thus, ever since Maryland has increased taxes on its wealthiest citizens, those citizens have been moving to lower-tax Virginia. The co-founder of
You’ve got to see Saturday Night Live‘s take on the Vice Presidential debate. Go to the link for the video. Here are some excerpts: “I’m from Janesville, Wisconsin, and he’s from Scranton, Pennsylvania,” Ryan says in the skit. “Do you know what the unemployment rate
Mitt Romney, as expected, seems to be tacking towards the center in an effort to woo Independents and to counter the “war against women” allegations. This is what he told the Des Moines Register: “There’s no legislation with regards to abortion that I’m familiar with
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