- Federal Court Denies Motion to Lift Stay in Prop 8 Case – Equality California
- …a decision likely would not come until the end of this year at the earliest. [And in the meantime, same-sex couples will have to wait. Dammit. -L]
- Ron Johnson: ‘ObamaCare’ Would Have Killed My Congenitally Ill Daughter | TPMDC
- It's a new, retroactive twist on the 'death panels' hoax, which has been broadly debunked, but never seems to go away.
It should be noted that one of the current benefits of the health care law prevents insurance companies from discriminating against children with pre-existing medical conditions.
- Union Busters Say Gov. Mitch Daniels Doesn’t Know How To Bust | TPMDC
- This isn't the first time that Daniels — a potential contender for the White House in 2012 — has found himself on the wrong side of a classic Republican constituency group. His continued call for a social issues "truce" to focus on fiscal policy has made him persona non grata among the Republican social conservative base, despite Daniels' strong pro-life history.
- The New Spin: The White House Would Be A Step Down For Sarah Palin | TPMDC
- It's a line gaining some traction among pundits on the right. Take conservative media guru Andrew Breitbart, who suggested in GQ this month that Palin would be truly unstoppable if she only didn't get bogged down by, say, being President.
- 1811: Hidalgo, Allende captured
- [About.com Latin American History]
…200 years ago…on March 21, 1811 – that patriot leaders Miguel Hidalgo and Ignacio Allende were betrayed and captured by the Spanish. Together with some other leaders of the young revolution, they were taken away, tried and executed. Their fight would live on, however.
- The Domino Scene in V for Vendetta Included Over 22,000 Dominoes
- [Today I Found Out - Daven links to more V for Vendetta facts]
- Death Rate Per Watt Produced | Discourse.net
- …my kids were at first very skeptical last week when I tried to tell them that so far coal had killed far more people than nuclear power. (Of course the very worst case scenario for a nuclear plant is much worse than the very worst case scenario for any coal-fired plant; but the very worst case scenario for coal plants aggregated is…global warming.)
[via Brad DeLong]
- It’s Up to the Right – NYTimes.com – Paul Krugman
- Yglesias says, correctly, that the only way we’ll get any budget deal now — or, I’d say, any time in the next several years — will be if conservatives come up with an offer. And they won’t.
The key point is that conservatives are insisting that no tax be raised on anyone…
…that means that there must be huge cuts in the big-ticket items.
But what Republicans want is for Obama to propose those cuts– and therefore to take the political heat…
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- Wordless Wednesday – Goddess from Afghanistan
- [About.com Women's History]
From a tomb in Tillia Tepe, Afghanistan, came this piece of first century jewelry with a representation of a powerful goddess. This piece is from the national museum in Kabul, and the photograph was taken in 2006 when the piece was among those in the "Afghanistan, Rediscovered Treasures" exhibition at Musee Guimet in Paris, France.
- The Department of Not-Labor in Maine | Echidne
- "Maine Gov. Paul LePage has ordered the removal of a 36-foot mural depicting the state's labor history from the lobby of the Department of Labor headquarters building in Augusta.
"In addition, the LePage administration is renaming several department conference rooms that carry the names of pro-labor icons…"
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