Michigan's Republican party members vote to support changing the state's electoral college allocation.
BP civil trial over the Deepwater Horizon disaster starts today.
As expected, the Obama administration filed an Amicus brief calling on the Supreme Court to overturn DOMA.
Britain's most senior Catholic cleric, Cardinal Keith O'Brien resigns amid... you fill in the blanks.
The White House has agreed to give the Senate Intelligence Committee more Benghazi documents.
Will women have to register for the draft?
Afghanistan bars American special ops forces from Wardak province.
Chris Hayes responds to his CPAC invitation.
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Britain's most senior Roman Catholic cleric, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, is stepping down as leader of the Scottish Catholic Church.
It follows allegations - which he contests - of inappropriate behaviour towards priests dating from the 1980s.
Aaaaaannnnnd we have a new candidate for Pope, although I think Jerry Sandusky still has the edge.
in 1975 on my 18th birthday I went to the town hall and registered to vote, and then went to the post office and registered for the selective service, checking the box marked F. There were boxes marked F and M. I reasoned if my male classmates had to, then so should I. I still feel this way, 38 years later.
Attaboy, Chris Hayes!
I actually watch "Up" both days. Hayes is good. Hayes also has the empathy to recognize a conservative argument, even if he goes out of his way to dis it. Even so that puts him head and shoulders above the left's pit yorkies".
Nixon went to China, Hayes should go to CPAC.
Pick a topic like religion, and go through both sides of the argument, if nothing else for illustrating why the left thinks the way it does. It's not hard to demonstrate that if Sharia isn't welcome, neither is the Inquisition.
You really can't call showing that an argument is flawed or downright false "dissing". Most conservative arguments need to have have less respect shown towards them these days and Mr. Hayes does this as brilliantly as anyone I've seen in quite a while.
Do you understand that your attitude cuts off all possibility of discussion? The next step after that is either court or violence.
"... sometimes I kind of feel that conservatism (and the republican party it largely controls) is just the name we give for a variety of interests ruthlessly devoted to hierarchy and exclusion - keeping "those people" - whoever they might be - out."
That is my sentiment exactly. I challenge my conservative friends to address this perception, but they don't see it at all. The foaming-at-the-mouth rhetoric of red meat politics that prevails at CPAC is like a Siren's Song that crashes them into the rocks every time - and they don't seem to hear it for what it is.
Will women have to register for the draft?
Of course! Equality means precisely that - equal.
You can't pick and choose only the "good" parts of equality.
And I think knowing that the pool of potential soldiers includes both women and men in roughly the same numbers will greatly improve both the military and the rest of the country.
And no, the "conservative" movement is only worth saving (or thriving) while there is economic turmoil, rampant xenophobia and/or global agression. Think September 1, 1939. Now that was "conservatism"!
"Section 3 of DOMA violates the fundamental constitutional guarantee of equal protection."
'nuff said
Well, great news everybody: the Italian people have not given Berlusconi a pass in today's decisive election! He is, according to the most recent previsions, five points behind the left-wing. However, a huge surprise has come out of the first polls: the E-X-P-L-O-S-I-O-N (there is just no other word) of the Five-Star Movement, led by Beppe Grillo. 26% of the vote in the Chamber of Deputies, 27% of the vote in the Senate. It's just double the previsions of the most recent polls before the vote. And Monti is at 11%. So the chances of forming a government are not totally impossible. But a lack of coalition will automatically lead to a new election in 70 days. And those Italian bonds will rise again, as will the "spread" with Germany.
Told you Michigan wasnt done! Our state legislature truly doesnt care about the opinion of it's citizens. If theres going to be one honey badger - it will be here
Speaking of women and the draft and equality, will women still get paid less for the same work in the military?