It’s entirely possible that he nominated a moderate judge because we’re SUPPOSED to have impartial Supreme Court judges who don’t lean to any one side ideologically. . .

The 9th Circuit is the most overturned by SCOTUS because they are doing their own thing! (Or are more liberal, noncomformist, depending on your viewpoint.) Personally, I find the Harvard/Yale club so tiresome and they really aren’t THAT much smarter or more qualified. Just well-located. (And I love my Harvard…

Her husband actually did a really good job of combating Islamophobia while in office and clearly made it a priority after 9/11. He made sure to appear in public with imams on a regular basis and frequently invited them to deliver convocations at White House events.

I hope our next Democratic president (yay!) nominates someone from the western United States and with public defender experience.

I was leaning towards Srinivasan because of his Hindu/non-white background but...perhaps I should have paid more attention to his resume. :/

The shitty political climate started after Bush with the tea party. For all his faults, he/she weren’t obstructionist douches.

Her one big policy was AIDs and HIV support for Africa. Also, the Bushes were shitty, but also, they weren’t part of creating the current work with no one climate.

It’s the top positions that make all the decisions dude. We’ve had secretary pools for a loooooong time, so your whole, “what if the next 50 people are women” argument is pretty weak. I used to work at a firm that had all men in charge (6) and everyone else was a woman (~20). Everyone else being assistants, event…

you don’t think that, as a woman in a largely male field, that she has created relationships with other women in that field? so even when she puts her money where her mouth is RE gender equality, she is pandering?

I believe Malala Yusafsai was entirely correct when she told Obama that investing in education for girls would have been far more of an efficient method of combating terrorism than the drone program, or the support of rival fighter groups. Preventative or restorative investments in civil society and infrastructure are…

I wonder though if most of the women polled were looking at it from the perspective of “this mostly hurts women through coercive practices and trafficking and therefore it’s really bad” rather than “those slutwhores”.

Plenty of people work perfectly legal jobs that are degrading because they're poor, uneducated, or feeding an addiction. We only get up in arms because of the sex.

Yes, and the inherent downside of every extremist viewpoint is that it tends to draw . . . extremists. Yeah, I know it’s probably the flaccid daydream of a lot of aging peckerwoods to crack some young black dude in the mouth, on what they consider “general principle.” But this is the problem: Trump’s “rallies” make…

Sorry, JE, but that last line could just as well apply to this story. Rubio did not say he’s okay with Muslims only if they convert to Christianity. And his point about not pissing off moderate Muslims as a strategy against the fight with radical jihadists has been echoed by Hillary Clinton and the rest of the…

It’s disgusting. You have to be brave to be a democratic politician. You have to be brave being a young woman walking into a health clinic. You have to be brave to conduct approved and essential research on animals (the murder at Yale, firebombing in LA). I’m terrified of our homegrown terrorists.

The suggestion that she bends to the whims honestly strikes me as sexist, because I remember in the early 90s when the big existential worry about her was that she was too powerful and outspoken - lots of concerns about her and Bill being co-presidents. She can’t win for losing.

I don’t disagree with you that our service men and women do not get the recognition they deserve for their sacrifices. I just don’t think that this police procession could really be considered “politics” or “scare tactics”, it’s just a case of a small community losing one of their own in a senseless act of violence. I…

“And that is what makes this all so entertaining.”

I just feel like throwing up my hands at the GOP faithful who are flabbergasted at Trump’s rise to popularity. YOU DID THIS! This is your bad! You let anyone loud enough and crazy enough to have a seat at the GOP’s dinner party, running out old school GOP faithful, and now wonder why no one wants to come to your next…

As Super Tuesday voting starts, the amazing parade of Republican Senators and former Senators racing to cameras to denounce their front runner is not only unprecedented. That would be good enough for historic marker. It is also suicidal on a good day. Whether the GOP cognoscenti like it, Donald Trump (shudder) is…