Yes, my friends, marriage is what brings us together today. You see, that blessed arrangement, that dream within a dream, was denied yesterday to same sex couples in my home state of New Jersey by straight-talking savior of the Republican Party Chris Christie. The man who more-or-less singlehandedly cut so much money from the state budget that it actually violated [...]
It’s been a fabulous month for gays. Earlier today, Governor Chris Gregoire signed into law a measure that legalizes same-sex marriage in Washington state. Yesterday, New Jersey’s state Senate passed a bill to recognize same-sex marriage. Last week, California’s Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage was ruled unconstitutional. With these milestones all happening within days of each other, I cannot [...]
My fellow Americans, we are faced with a time of moral crisis. Our misguided government is trying to help people who want to use contraception get their hands on it at little or no cost. Evil organizations like Planned Parenthood seek to use breast cancer screenings to trick us into thinking they care about women’s health, when really they just [...]
The University of Pennsylvania has one of the most permissive speech policies in the country, and that’s a good thing. Free speech allows the best ideas to emerge from a dialogue between thoughtful parties, and the power to censor bad ideas rapidly becomes the power to censor good ones. At least that’s what I’ve been saying to myself this last [...]
President Obama delivered his state of the union address this week, but I think he left some things out. His speech had lots of policies and ideas, but hardly any snarky reflections on the current state of political affairs. Yes, there was that one bit about Washington being disconnected from the rest of the country, but that wasn’t so much [...]
It can be a bit difficult to keep track of what the president proposed in his SOTU policy-wise, particularly when a president proposes as many daring policies as Obama did. Wonkblog extracted the juicy, policy bits, trimmed the fat and produced this. But, let’s simplify things even further. Here’s a list! No tax deductions for outsourcing Use that money for moving [...]
If you read an article in the last six months that mentioned Mitt Romney, it probably referred at least once to the inevitability of his nomination. Indeed, if you believed everything — or anything — you read, you’d think that the Republican primaries were just some sort of stimulus package for the political opinion industry, designed to keep pundits and [...]
“We don’t need to have two different plants making the same product…in an industry that is shrinking,” Mitt Romney stated on Monday night, standing on the podium before a crowd of thousands, his voice booming. “So let’s consolidate.” Romney was responding to a question about Bain Capital, of which he was formerly CEO, buying out companies like American Pad & [...]
Today, we’re going to play a game I’m calling “Who’s That Candidate?” You might think the game is about Rick Santorum, because every time his name is mentioned that’s what people say. But actually, it’s a game where I describe a politician’s political positions and you guess who he is. Ready? Then let’s play WHO’S THAT CANDIDATE! (Imagine a studio [...]
Right now, I’m on vacation. I am quite certain of this fact (the sound of waves crashing on the beach gives it away). And that certainty indicates that I’m not qualified to be a member of the United States Congress. Here’s the deal: President Obama wanted to appoint Richard Cordray as the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Well, actually, [...]
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