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Are yoga-toned women of a certain class all secretly dying to get divorced, you ask us, Hanna ? I find it hard to believe—whatever Ellen Tien at O might say about her own divorce daydreams. But a follow-up question might be: Are many women of a certain,...
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John McCain’s plan to balance the budget by 2013 may have just taken the prize for Most Ridicule Sustained in a 24-Hour Period. (Before that, McCain's and Clinton’s gas-tax holiday proposals held the title .) The biggest gripe: It’s hard to see how McCain...
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As Dahlia noted a couple of weeks ago , Chief Justice Roberts used his dissent in Sprint v. APCC [pdf] as an occasion to quote (or, perhaps, misquote ) Bob Dylan. As Alex Long previously explained , however, quoting Bob Dylan in a judicial opinion is...
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So what exactly is the scope of the "gun right" discovered by Justice Scalia in Heller? And why aren't the John McCain and Barack Obama unlikely to say much about it? Has Justice Scalia become a natural law originalist? Be patient, the Justices will instruct...
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In conversation Sandy Levinson has impressed on me several curious features of the Second Amendment right of self-defense recently recognized in District of Columbia v. Heller . The more I think about this new right the Court has recognized, the more...
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I want to take advantage of what Maureen Dowd dubs the celebrity divorce moment (Christie Brinkley, Madonna) to talk about how this great American pastime figures for the rest of us. When David and I did the Slate V feature in which we spent a day no...
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Rachael, All right, you caught me on my own overheated rhetoric (see what I get for posting at 6 p.m. on the Friday before a holiday weekend? I had a great time at Boston's beautiful fireworks, by the way—hope you had a fab weekend too!). No, I do not...
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At a town hall meeting today in Denver, Colo., McCain highlighted the American footwear company Crocs—you know, the colorful rubber shoes with holes in them—as an example of how free trade benefits American business. “This former small business now employs...
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EJ, I hope you had a great holiday weekend. I don't want to wade into general disagreement territory, either—I suppose most of us have our heels dug in deeply enough that we're not going to change one another's minds. But I wanted to address a few points...
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This abortion ruling strikes me as a lot like the religious culture-war debates, where we spend a lot of time fighting about symbolics and very little about things that matter (a creche vs. faith based funding, abortion language vs. actual access) The...
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If you flip-flop on an issue that itself flip-flops all the time, is that considered flip-flopping? That’s the question confronting Barack Obama, who hinted Thursday that he might “refine” his position on withdrawal from Iraq. Obama quickly held a follow-up...
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It's an election year, so inevitably the possibility of a Supreme Court vacancy is part of the national discussion. If there is a potential nominee who ought to be at the top of the list for both parties, it's Supreme Court advocate, Carter G. Phillips...
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As if Emily's article hadn't left me appalled enough about South Dakota's Orwellian new abortion "disclosure" law, I actually clicked over to read the 8th Circuit's appalling decision . Fortunately, no one else was in the office—everyone's sensibly headed...
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Dana , Even though we sit on opposite sides of the abortion debate, I am also uneasy with South Dakota's law compelling abortion doctors to tell women that they are terminating the "the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being." There are...
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But the point, Melinda , of my hypothetical story about the pregnant woman in South Dakota is that neither she nor her doctors necessarily hold the belief that abortion is the taking of a life. The doctors who require her to sign aren't "pointing out"...
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I agree with Will Saletan that it is an abomination that the late Leona Helmsley wished her potentially $8 billion foundation to go entirely to the dogs. Uber-narcissist Helmsley left one of her largest personal bequests, $12 million, to her badly behaved...
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Actually, Dana , I am a big fan of moral bullying, and wish it had been more effectively used to keep us out of Iraq. I'm hopeful that eventually, through better moral bullying, we will join other civilized nations in outlawing capital punishment. And...
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Emily’s piece about the new abortion bill set to go into effect in South Dakota has me madder and sadder than anything I’ve read in some time. (Actually, the last thing that got me into this state was also in Slate : In Steven Greenhouse’s story about...
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Most of you have probably already seen Linda Greenhouse's articles yesterday and today , reporting that in last week's Kennedy case involving the death penalty for child rape, the court, its clerks, the parties, the several amici, and the solicitor general...
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Pixar’s latest kiddie masterpiece, Wall-E , did some massive damage at the box office on its opening weekend. As A.O. Scott recently noted in a New York Times essay about Kit Kittredge (watch this space for more on that film), Pixar has yet to build a...
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I love animals . I really do. But there's such a thing as loving animals the wrong way. No, I'm not talking about that , you perverts. Or that . I've said enough about that sort of behavior. I'm talking about Leona Helmsley and her dog. Two weeks ago,...
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The whole Yearning for Zion case left me creeped out. The feminist in me finds polygamy in general a little creepy, but even more so when young women—girls even—are married off to more powerful older men. The mother in me hates the way they kick out the...
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Marty says , echoing Phil: That is to say—and as Eric's closing swipe at Congress suggests—Eric believes that war should not be governed by legal standards at all. Which is fine, I suppose. But as Phil has stressed, that's not the view of history and...
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Democratic strategist and former Kerry communications director Stephanie Cutter has joined the Obama campaign.* Her responsibilities include heading up a "war room" for Michelle Obama. A campaign’s "war room" typically refers to its rapid response team....
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OK, so perhaps I went a bit overboard with the Ouija board metaphor. No, I do not think that the military's detention of the Uighurs was just random, or whimsical, or the product of consultations with the Easter bunny. More to the point, I, too, accept...
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