Even the Crazies Recognize It…..

Charles Krauthammer–one of the more creepy denizens of the very far right–recently accepted a “journalism” award from NewsCorp, the parent company of Fox News. According to Steve Benen, Krauthammer began his acceptance speech by “trashing Nobel peace prizes and Pulitzers, before talking up the importance of News Corp’s enterprise. (via TPM)

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The Right to Bear Arms

For years, I’ve taught students that the Fourteenth Amendment “incorporated” most provisions of the Bill of Rights–meaning that, although the BOR initially restrained only the federal government, after passage of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court used a series of cases to apply most of those same restrictions to other levels of government.

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The Double Standard

When I was a girl (okay, back in the Ice Age), the term double standard referred to the fact that a teenaged boy who "got some" was regarded as a "real guy"–and was envied by those of his peers who hadn't been so "lucky."

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Talk Show Party

Pierre Atlas has sent his most recent column for Real Clear Politics. As usual, he offers a clear-headed analysis, this time, of the current GOP.

The Republican Party is in trouble, and it’s not Colin Powell’s fault.

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