Spotted at the Nassau County Democrats annual Low Country Boil: a yarn-based replica of the U.S. Capitol. Everything down to the shrubbery is knitted. Surely useful as a metaphor for how Congress is tied up in knots. (I’ll be here all week, try the veal!)
Dahlia Lithwick on Slate: The court’s liberals voted to find a ministerial exception to employment discrimination laws for religious schools and churches; ruled against the EPA in a wetlands case; and, as Adam Liptak points out, the court’s liberals pretty much crushed the Obama administration again this term. Yet you don’t find liberals burning their […]
I, Kenton Ngo, a man who works for a Democratic consulting firm, was just served an ad from Univision selling political ads. A wormhole has just opened. They’re using ads to feed more ads. The advertising spaces of metro Washington, DC where I grew up are filled with ads that aren’t meant for you. Commuters […]
Former President Bill Clinton joined his former adviser and now Mayor of Jacksonville Alvin Brown at the Times-Union Center to discuss job creation.
On May 8th, 2012, North Carolina voted on a constitutional amendment to ban any sort of same-sex union.
Pennsylvania’s stagnant population growth led to the Republican-controlled legislature drawing two Democrats out of existence. In Southwestern Pennsylvania’s 12th District, two Democratic incumbents were drawn together. Rep. Jason Altmire was given a substantially larger portion of the new district he fought for with Rep. Mark Critz, but Critz was able to win his home base […]
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, a Democrat, won re-election on April 3. Dyer drew strong support in the minority areas of the City of Orlando, while his main opponent did better in high-turnout white areas. Dyer cleared the 50% required to avoid a runoff.
