Madison The Supreme Court ended its term at the end of June, so we can stop holding our breath, but we can hardly celebrate. The Martin-Quinn scores are named after a professors at the University of Michigan and University of California at Berkeley and attempt to use the Justices voting patterns to determine ideology. They …
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Campbell Brown’s Disturbing Tryout for the Times Op-Ed Page on the Backs of Women
Toronto The rhetorical devices that former CNN and NBC news-person, Campbell Brown, is using in what now seems like a tryout for an op-ed column in the New York Times, are very smart and almost personal in a clever, conservative “cover-your-bases” way. Yesterday’s piece was essentially an attack on Planned Parenthood in the guise of …
Healthcare Hijinks: Catholics, Rockefeller & Repubs
Buffalo Driving through neighborhoods on first the east side and then the west side of Buffalo was a reminder of what happens in America when your issues fall to the bottom of the pile. The impact of deindustrialization was an ever present scar even when we found the occasional still operating Wonder Bread or …