Its certainly not PC, but things like this remind me of General Mattis, who once ineloquently explained ""You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years, because they didn't wear a veil. You know guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot 'em."

It will likely, and hopefully, be appealed. The article neglects to mention Judge Korman sits in the Eastern District of NY. Traditionally orders compelling the federal agencies come out of the DC Circuit or the Federal Circuit. Without at least Second Circuit affirmation of the ruling, its likely that the order…

I agree that this is not an overt act of sexism, but coupled with the "Wives and Daughters" line from the SOTU, the President's speechwriter should show a little more sensitivity. Big pulpit means big responsibility.

Moved

Put the words in every other politician's mouth, if you still don't have a problem with it, then its an non issue.

UR DUM.

Wooosh!

I would imagine that its not Smith's rules that matter, but the exact language of the will/title/gift that transferred the property to Smith as well as the jurisprudence Massachusetts (or where ever the property/bank is), and perhaps the state where the conveyance was made.

Working solely on hypothetical here: but its possible the Dean looked the form over, saw that there was little doubt that the applicant was truly trans* and knew that in the past a trans* applicant had be admitted. However, when the system flagged a mismatch between FAFSA and application, the lawyers took a closer…

Its very possible that in the past rich donors have granted trusts/property in fee simple defesable using the words "to Smith College for as long as it remains an all-women's college, but if it does not, the property shall revert to my heirs." (A very common way to write a will). Smith's attorneys might have gotten…

The Quota Project site is fascinating. The stat nerd in me is beside myself with joy at the thought of compiling and recompiling numbers based on a series of random variables (e.g Gender makeup of deliberative bodies of a country v. miles of improved runways).

So, you didn't read the article?

You do realize that over 95% of the "Bush Tax Cuts" were for lower and middle income families, cuts that the Democrats insisted remain. The remaining cuts were extended by by Democratic-Controlled Congresses twice. They were as bipartisan a bill as corporate and Wall Street dollars can buy. (and lets be honest,…

Here's an idea. Get a trust news source and Google the following terms:

Even assuming that every dollar that we pay out in interest payments is immediately taxable at 60% (hopelessly, ridiculously, generous assumptions in your favor, that means that $165 billion in tax dollars will be lost each year, making our budget less effective every year.

41% of our budget is spent on the elderly (compared to 10% on children and 20% on defense). This translates to government spending on each elderly person of $26,355, compared to $11,822 for each child.

The practice of the most populous house of government using national spending as a cudgel against those in power is literally as old as the concept of representative government itself. The formal term is "Power of the Purse" and either started in 1295, or eighty years earlier in Runnymede.

But, ironically, government intervention is the single greatest force in history to allow those in power to brutalize the masses.

I am pro-guns and yet I would like to nominate this comment for COTD

A slow, awkward government is considered safer than a rapid government, no matter how well-meaning. Think about the actions that Bush took on wiretapping and detaining non-Americans without any status hearings. Or that Obama took on executing Americans without a trial. How else can we possibly stop them?