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Supreme Court hears arguments in same-sex marriage case: Highlights from oral arguments - The Washington Post OK, 1. Who cares? "Intent to demean" has NEVER been part of equal protection analysis. 2. Yes, these states seek to demean gay people. Just like states that passed...

The new argument against gay equality: Same-sex marriage kills By Dana MilbankOpinion writerApril 20 As the Supreme Court prepares to take up same-sex marriage next week, conservative scholars have produced a last-ditch argument to keep the scourge of homosexual unions from spreading...

Seriously, you gotta read this. When a veteran who posed nude for Playboy seizes (steals) an American flag from black students protesting racism, it's pretty much an internet meme. Except that no contrived scenario could possibly be this crazy. All they need is a Muslim. Playboy-posing...

This may be the best single, do-able tax idea in a generation. Conservatives and the makers of TurboTax want to keep your taxes difficult By James Downie April 15 How long did it take you to do your taxes this year? Hours? Days? Or did you pay someone to do it for you? Every year, millions...

Carly Fiorina, pink nail polish and sexism By Jonathan CapehartApril 16 Carly Fiorina was rather impressive fielding pointed questions from beltway reporters taking their measure of her. The potential aspirant for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination held forth on Iran, religious...

Republicans in Congress strike another blow for freedom! By Dana Milbank Opinion writer April 14 Give credit to Republicans in Congress. They’ve discovered, belatedly, that income inequality is a problem, and they’re no longer proposing to give tax breaks to the wealthiest 2 percent of...

When work isn’t enough to keep you off welfare and food stamps By Emily Badger April 14 We often make assumptions about people on public assistance, about thewoman in the checkout line with an EBT card, or the family who lives in public housing. We make assumptions about how they spend...

I hear a lot of talk about "rights." You have a right to do this, or a right to do that, or think this or that, or believe this or that. Nowadays you have a "right" to receive this or that. But there ain't no point in debating a concept you can't define. So, I'll leave it up to the members...

The 73-year-old ‘reserve’ cop who mistook his gun for a Taser By Lindsey Bever April 13 at 7:47 AM Reserve Deputy Robert Bates is shown in this undated handout photo provided by the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office in Tulsa, Oklahoma, April 4, 2015, Bates was involved in the shooting of...

Law school is way too expensive. And only the federal government can fix that. By David Lat April 8 There’s no shortage of lawyers in this country. Only 57 percent of 2013 law school graduates obtained full-time legal jobs nine months after graduation. Yet the federal government...

Transgender in the military: A Pentagon in transition weighs its policy By Juliet Eilperin April 9 at 8:03 PM Over the past decade, Sgt. Shane Ortega has served three combat tours: Two in Iraq, one in Afghanistan. Two as a Marine and one in the Army. Two as a woman and one as a man. Ortega...

Radley Balko is an author and blogger who focuses on the criminal justice system and reports on all its aspects. He is smart, honest, capable, and a tireless researcher. He came up with the following list of questions for Presidential candidates. I think it's sheer genius. I also think there...

Here's mine: SONGS Men: Country Song: You Were Always On My Mind, Willie. Folk Song: Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen (as performed by k.d. lang) Rock Song: Touch Me, the Doors (close second: Layla, Eric Clapton/Derek and the Dominos) Rap Song: Body Count, Ice-T "Crooner" Song: Cold...

Death toll in Yemen rises as Saudi-led military attacks continue By Ali al-Mujahed and Brian Murphy April 1 at 6:53 AM SANAA, Yemen — An airstrike from a Saudi-led military force destroyed a dairy plant along Yemen’s Red Sea coast, killing more than two dozen people Wednesday in another...

Indiana woman jailed for “feticide.” It’s never happened before By Sarah KaplanApril 1 When Purvi Patel showed up in the St. Joseph Regional Medical Center’s maternity ward, bleeding and showing a protruding umbilical cord, Dr. Kelly McGuire immediately knew something was wrong. “There...

Ind. to ‘clarify’ new law decried as anti-gay By Sandhya Somashekhar and Mark Berman March 30 at 8:32 PM Republican lawmakers in Indiana promised Monday to amend a religious liberties bill that critics have labeled as anti-gay, bowing to protests that have rapidly spread to...

All-Canadian basketball player can now use his ‘F-word’ last name By Terrence McCoy March 25 at 6:13 AM Coach Craig Price’s phone won’t stop ringing. Everyone from reporters to award committee announcers want to know if it’s true what they say about his star basketball player. No one’s...

America is needed on Iraq’s front lines By Gary Anderson March 24 at 8:07 PM Gary Anderson, a retired Marine Corps colonel, was the chief of staff of the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab from 1998 to 2000. This month, the Iraqi government launched an offensive against Islamic State fighters...

Angelina Jolie Pitt: Diary of a Surgery By ANGELINA JOLIE PITTMARCH 24, 2015 LOS ANGELES — TWO years ago I wrote about my choice to have a preventive double mastectomy. A simple blood test had revealed that I carried a mutation in the BRCA1 gene. It gave me an estimated 87 percent risk of...

Of the hopefuls, I favour Marco Rubio or Martin O'Malley. Ain't gonna happen, though. The money already picked Clinton and Bush.