Gay rights,the report argued,are a "gateway" for "many younger voters": they just won't come to the GOP if the GOP doesn't bend here. Don't bet on that move. The religious right,with its potentially decisive power in midterm and presidential primaries,will resist any candidate who follows such thoroughly sensible advice. In any event,the advice is queasy and muddy: what exactly are reformed Republicans supposed to say about marriage equality? How about North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr's dodge? "It's a states'-rights issue," he pleads,invoking the age-old rationalization for discrimination and repression. But even this modified,limited hang-out won't redeem Republicans when their House members are swinging the opposite way in the Supreme Court,spending millions of dollars to defend the so-called Defense of Marriage Act.
In no circumstance could he risk having to take a treaty change through the Commons relying on Lib Dem, Labour and a minority of Tory votes, accompanied by an ever-more hysterical insistence that there should be a referendum on Britain's relationship with Europe. ? John Redwood on his blog saying that if Cameron had supported a new EU treaty, he would have had to rely on Labour votes to get it through the Commons.The numbers of Conservative rebels will doubtless wax and wane, but there is now a hard core of at least 45 who are likely to vote against unsuitable EU measures, meaning the Coalition needs some Labour support or help should they want to put through more EU decisions.? James Forsyth in the Mail on Sunday on how senior members of the government think the eurozone will break up.
" The 55-year-old Watts,a star quarterback during his college days for the Oklahoma Sooners,is a rare black Republican who served four terms in House,rose to a top leadership position,and then abruptly retired in 2003 to make money as a Washington lobbyist,
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Some part of your brain tells you that you can handle it,and once you get on stage,
ytcgzx,it’s really fun.The play begins at a drunken college party where your character,Leigh,has sex with one of the rich college guys. Even at the end,we don’t know whether she seduced him or was raped. Do you?One of the extraordinary things about the play is that it’s so ambiguous. I’ve read the play a hundred times,but every night there are moments when I hear a line and understand it differently. It’s rocked with tiny land mines. All of us in the cast have different ideas of what we think happened,and even our ideas change. We talk about it all the time,and we’ve done our job if people leave the theater still unsure.
It's as though Durer had taken a conventional image and sliced it down the middle. I've suggested technical explanations for the use of eccentric perspectives in 17th-century Holland,but in this earlier case I wonder if there isn't a kind of almost theological point: When modern sinners try to witness a long-gone sacred scene,etiquette insists that they stay on its margins. Sanctity must be approached crabwise. For a full visual survey of past Daily Pics visit blakegopnik.com/archive.What Do Opponents of this Immigration Reform Really Want? Alex Wong/Getty Images)David Brooks takes off the boxing gloves today.The opponents of immigration reform have many small complaints,but they really have one core concern.
" In September of 2000,130 sub-Saharan migrants were killed by enraged Libyans who believed that they were responsible for disease,rising crime rates,and cultural deterioration.On Libya's street corners,bridges,and traffic circles,migrants wait for any work they can get,holding up paint brushes and shovels as crude advertisements of their skills. As in Europe and America,migrants do work that even unemployed natives are unwilling to do. When the sewer in our Tripoli house backed up—because we had ignorantly clogged it with our American toilet paper—Amina went to the corner where migrants waited for work and found a Malian boy with a wheelbarrow and a shovel. He opened up the sewer cover,got in and started shoveling,ankle deep in unmentionable filth.
I'm not much of a gambler,but?Qatar's backing of this billion-dollar bet on the peace process looks to me like a bad one. Instead,Rawabi seems poised to stand as a huge and expensive monument to the ills of occupation.It's Not Time to Pick Sides,Journalists NSFWCorp's Paul Carr draws a line:On one side there’ll be the ad supported sites like the HuffPost,Buzzfeed,the Daily Mail and Forbes who have embraced their role as aggregators,choppers and filterers out other people’s work. There will be far fewer of these sites than there are now,but those that remain will be highly profitable,fantastically soul-destroying places to work.On the other side will be the publications which have figured out a way to pay for all of those real costs of journalism I listed above.
"She doesn't use the most credible sources," explains one former staffer,detailing Bachmann's reliance on stories from the conspiracy-peddling WorldNetDaily to shape her worldview,"and she tends to listen to the last person who talks to her." Bachmann is also a member of the House Intelligence Committee.But what critics charge is a persistent truth-telling problem is the least of Bachmann's worries now. Bills are piling up in an Iowa court case,Heki v. Bachmann,filed by another former Bachmann staffer,Barb Heki. That suit alleges that onetime state campaign chairman and state Senator Sorenson stole from her—and then used with the candidate's knowledge—an email list of Christian homeschool families in Iowa.