Strategy. Focus on passing more bills like HB5, or on judicial nominees, or on conscience clauses, or on Personhood stuff? The Board can help him sort through those choices.

Crisis Magazine was founded in the ‘70s to address the titular “crisis” in the Catholic Church, from liturgical abuse to seminary corruption to doctrinal compromise. It was essentially a pro-John Paul II glossy — the common man’s First Things. In 2004, its then-editor, Deal Hudson, was exposed as having an affair with…

As an I.T. guy myself, what the heck is your problem? The man didn’t say I.T. broke it; he just said I.T. can fix it. And I.T. can. And I.T. should.

Looking at the picture, I’m pretty sure they meant “week”. That’s what a 26-week baby looks like — it’s a couple weeks after viability.

My first assumption was that it was a religious school, in which case introducing the kids to abortion (and opposition thereunto) could be considered part of the school’s mission (although four years old is still pretty young — I learned about abortion at 3, but I have friends who were shielded from it until 9 or 10).

Correct. That is your constitutional right as President.

Dehumanization of human beings based on pseudoscientific/religious nonsense? Check.

I mean, it was 34 years ago, and the company that produced this game was almost immediately wiped out (partly because no one wanted to buy its stuff, partly because of the Great Video Game Crash of 1983). I like to think we HAVE been doing better.

Heck, for most of history, it wasn’t even a speech! From Jefferson to Taft, the norm was a written message to Congress, along the lines of a really long budget report. Only when Woodrow Wilson realized he could use the mass media to turn the State of the Union into a rallying point for his agenda did this dumb…

Congress has no right to weigh in, actually. “The Congress... on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, SHALL CALL a convention for proposing amendments.” It’s non-optional. They HAVE to do it, as soon as 34 states demand it. Congress just gets to decide whether states will ratify the…

Juanita Broaddrick, Eileen Wellstone, Paula Jones, Elizabeth Ward, Christy Zercher, Sandra Allen-James, and Kathleen Wiley have all alleged, at one time or another, to have had non-consensual sexual contact with Bill Clinton. That’s seven — six if you discount Ward (who never made a public accusation).

As Nate Silver keeps saying, at this stage in a 16-candidate race, favorability ratings tell you a good deal more about a candidate’s national viability than their first-choice polling toplines. (Toplines become a bit more valuable when they include a second-choice fallback for each respondant.) You cannot treat a…

Huh? Those are four of the most popular candidates among the base. Here’s PPP’s favorable/unfavorable ratings results for each of the surviving candidates among national GOP primary voters (“the base”), dated December 16th, from least to most popular:

Thing is, even if there’s a bunch of skeletons in Rubio’s closet and it turns out he’s a corrupt preening politicking serial liar... he’ll be *running against Hillary*, who has a reputation for being that to the nth degree, so it won’t be a particularly effective line of attack against him.

I mean, he’s not wrong about Bill. Just a flaming hypocrite (in at least three separate dimensions) to be the one pointing it out.

I’ve lived here my entire life and have literally never heard of this show. How many viewers does it have? Six?

“As long as it is totally legal...”

Hm. I also came out as -0.4 Democrat, which is interesting, because I am a far-right Republican who supports Personhood Amendments and whose favorite Supreme Court justice is Clarence Thomas.

Jezebel’s a pretty liberal site. Go to a conservative site of roughly equal quality — say, Breitbart — and you’ll find the mirror image of this thread.

I’ve noticed this phenomenon a few times in the past few years. Highly anticipated installment in a franchise comes out.