Category: Legal Affairs
Gay Revolution: History in Progress
by Jenny Blair | Sep 1, 2012 | Books, Legal AffairsReviewed: Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution, by Linda Hirshman (Harper, 464 pp., $27.99). Wear at least three “gender-appropriate” garments to the bar or risk a police bust. Get booted from the Army for loving a consenting adult. Marry your beloved and keep paying the IRS as though you were single. The spectrum of humiliations and civil […]
Unliking Facebook: Investors Respond to Zuckerberg’s Failed IPO
by WS Editors | Jun 15, 2012 | Economy, Legal Affairs“Any investor who can get shares of the Facebook IPO should purchase as many shares as possible.” That was Jim Cramer’s tout on his CNBC Mad Money program, which promises viewers “an in-depth look at Wall Street, stock, and the market.” It is Cramer’s good fortune that he is not legally responsible for the bullshit he […]
Americans United for Life: Bent on Ending Abortion at All Costs
by WS Editors | Apr 15, 2012 | Legal Affairs, PoliticsDescribed as “a National Public Interest and Law Foundation Organized for the Purpose of Defending Human Right to Life From Conception to Natural Death,” AUL was founded in 1971 by a group of activists including zealous right-winger and media censor Brent Bozell. In the past few years, its growth has been metastatic. According to AUL’s […]
Politics and “Personhood”
by Michelle Goldberg | Apr 15, 2012 | Legal Affairs, PoliticsPartly, it was a bait and switch. Much of the Tea Party was always the Christian right rebranded; according to the Public Religion Research Institute, three quarters of Tea Partiers consider themselves Christian conservatives. Among those who made their way to Congress with Tea Party support were Ann Marie Buerkle (R-NY), a former spokesperson for […]
Fetal Attraction
by WS Editors | Apr 1, 2012 | Legal Affairs, PoliticsSantorum’s position on contraception conforms with a doctrine that most Catholics ignore: that sexual union must serve the purposes of procreation. “It [contraception] is not okay because it’s a license to do things in the sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be,” Santorum said. “They are supposed to be within […]
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