NBC (and MSNBC) relentlessly runs a show called “To Catch a Predator“, which is simply a televised sting operation–middle aged men, apparently of the belief that they are chatting with a 15 year old girl, take the bold step of visiting the “girl,” only to be confronted by a dour and smug Stone Phillips inside [...]
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Granted, this comes from the NY Post’s Page Six, but if true, these “unidentified lawmakers” should be identified. We Hear . . . THAT a couple of U.S. senators were rude and unruly last week when Majority Leader Harry Reid had a Hindu chaplain for the first time say the opening prayer. The unidentified lawmakers [...] This piano solo, from an early Genesis album called Selling England by the Pound, is one of my favorite pieces of music, and also serves as the default ringtone on my cellphone. I poked around youtube and found a sizable community taking a stab at it. No one flat out nails it, but this woman [...] I’ve long believed that the supposedly non-denominational prayers spoken before each Congressional session is as clear a violation of the establishment clause as has been, well, established. Yet the tradition/ritual has persisted for as long as memory serves, and has been explicitly validated by the Supreme Court in Marsh v. Chambers, 463 U.S. 783 (1983) [...] In response to the Pope’s recent grenade lob at non-Catholic entities (“Despite the fact that this teaching [Protestantism] has created no little distress … it is nevertheless difficult to see how the title of ‘Church’ could possibly be attributed to them“), Atrios makes perfect sense: While religious tolerance is a wonderful thing, overall the whole [...] This post is made with a specific eye toward Google-boosting a client, the legendary journalist Carl Bernstein, whose site I recently designed and built. Ordinarily, people who own the domain name of their own name are given great deference by Google, but Carl has an uphill climb due to the fact that a fairly massive [...] It was drizzly and not exactly warm, but The New Pornographers were great (and free) yesterday at Battery Park. They played a lot of material from their soon-forthcoming album ‘Challengers’. Neko Case Carl Newman Kathryn Calder Neko Case, Todd Fancey Neko Case, Todd Fancey, Carl Newman [...] Olbermann’s angriest and most eloquent "Special Comment" yet In 1968, the Supreme Court (in Flast v. Cohen) identified a narrow exception to the standing doctrine, which essentially requires plaintiffs to suffer some injury traceable to the Constitutional violation being alleged. Although taxpayers do not generally have standing to challenge laws passed by Congress, an exception was made for taxpayers alleging an establishment clause [...] |
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