What kind of party (or movement or whatever), especially one that claims to be radically transforming the political landscape at the most basic constitutional and philosophical levels, "does not take a position on social issues"?
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Some hasty stitches about Gill v. OPM and Massachusetts v. Sibelius.
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Contrary to the hopes (or fears) of many, the Presentment Clause has not been repealed.
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It is absurd in the extreme to suggest that two free individuals acting jointly can somehow have "less rights" than those two same free individuals would have acting individually.
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There's been yet another Outbreak of Stupid™ in the gay blawgosphere — and, this time, in the Senate Judiciary Committee — so let's pause to get it right.
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Some very misinformed gay bloggers are completely misunderstanding, and misreporting, the news that Lamba Legal, the ACLU and other major gay advocacy groups are petitioning to intervene in the controversial "Olson/Boies" lawsuit challenging Proposition 8.
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Remind me again how Obama and the hyper-liberal Congress were going to usher in a new civil libertarian paradise where basic constitutional rights are actually acknowledged and respected?
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What is it about Kentucky and the Ten Commandments?
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Please take a moment to pause from enjoying the bread of your holiday idleness to recall the ("compromised") document behind the holiday, and the one that succeeded it.
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What the Court got right — and missed altogether — in Safford and Ricci.
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