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Crimes of What?

Posted on January 27, 2008
Toward the end of her Ms. review of Susan K. Cahn's Sexual Reckonings: Southern Girls in a Troubling Age, France Winddance Twine, a professor of sociology and women's studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, says, "Meanwhile, scholars estimate that the number of girls in juvenile detention for crimes of poverty and sex nearly doubled in the 1990s...

I Do Declare, That's Not What It Means to Be American

Posted on January 26, 2008
I am trying to figure out what Sarah Lyall meant in the first sentence of a Times article, which says, "It was a lofty idea: formulate a British 'statement of values' defining what it means to be British, much the way a document like the Declaration of Independence sets out the ideals that help explain what it means to be American...

Refiguring on the Slate

Posted on January 25, 2008
In Phil Carter's and Brad Flora's "complete guide to the Army's recruiting incentives," published in Slate last November, they state, "Among 2004 recruits, 92.5 percent had a high-school diploma, while the same could be said for 87 percent in 2005, 81...

In Which PG Tries to Explain Many Things

Posted on January 23, 2008
This is an overgrown response to commenter Bob, one of several people defending the Japanese internment in the comments to this post. In the following, I will endeavor to explain - the difference between a "military area" and a "combat zone"; - the seemingly mysterious ability of Japanese people to evade prosecution for spying even while whites are being convicted; - why putting adults in an area that they are shot for leaving without permission is usually deemed a loss of liberty and not a mere "relocation"; - U...

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What It Means to Vote Pro-Choice

Posted on January 21, 2008
I received an email from Molly Jackson at Pro Choice America, asking bloggers to participate again in Blog for Choice Day (Roe's anniversary). She said, "This year, we're asking people to blog about why they vote pro-choice." I consider myself a pro-choice voter, but some people probably wouldn't...

Today / 01.22.08

Posted on January 21, 2008
Today is the 35th anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade.

God's Already Been Discovered

Posted on January 20, 2008
The latest emails from the American Family Association are hyping the "Rediscovering God in America Conference," which will take place in Orlando, Florida this week with hundreds of Florida pastors and special guests Newt Gingrich and Mike Huckabee. Phrases like "Rediscovering God in America" or "putting religion back in the public square" always puzzle me because I feel like God is very much present in Americans' lives and that lived faith is very much present in the public square...

Why the Media Has Less Interest in Democrats' Religious Convictions

Posted on January 19, 2008
The Democratic front-runners seem less inclined to say that we have to amend the Constitution to bring it into line with "God's standards."

What Al Qaeda Believes about American Muslims

Posted on January 18, 2008
A passage in Curtis Bradley's and Jack Goldsmith's foreign relations casebook created a concern for Stephen Griffin and Eric Muller that the book unintentionally "endorse[s] a false, revisionist, and partisan history of the Japanese American internment," by suggesting that there was a fact-based fear of Japanese-Americans' becoming fifth columnists traitors who would assist Japan's invasion of the U...

Wait, Who Said the Clinton Campaign Was Racist Toward Obama?

Posted on January 15, 2008
Ramesh Ponnuru might be getting out ahead of the rest of the right, which has been predicting ever since Obama became a potential candidate for '08 that any criticism of him would bring accusations that the criticizer is racist. (They had to change this to "any comment of any kind" after Biden got hit with the Chris Rock references by exclaiming over Obama as the "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean...

TownHall Looking Generous in Comparison

Posted on January 14, 2008
When trying to leave a comment on a TownHall.com blog last year, I got signed up to their newsletter and can't seem to get off it. Most of what they send me is predictable and some is just advertising, but occasionally they manage to surprise me. One such email came the day after Christmas, with the headline: "America's wounded troops facing homelessness need your help this winter...

Old Liberalism and New Labor

Posted on January 14, 2008
I liked Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed, but this remark from her blog (which I read for the first time just now) bothered me: "And what about the unemployment rate? The old liberal faith was that 'full employment' would create a workers' paradise, with higher wages and enhanced bargaining power for the little guy and gal...

ENDA and the insufficiency of disparate impact

Posted on January 13, 2008
I'm going to begin this post apologising for the inarticulateness of my previous post. It was completed at 3:30 am, so I claim a good excuse :p Since then, I have realised that the Sherman Act has been quite authoritative on the issues that the Court outlines, but nonetheless, I fear the new precedent the Court has set...

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