Tuesday Evening Open Thread

That was NOT the official White House response to Jim Cramer – but it’s close. What’s on your mind?

Now & Then

 Doug Kmiec now: March 2, 2009 – On Thursday, our law dean, Kenneth Starr, will defend Proposition 8 in the California Supreme Court. Knowing the dean to value open and civil debate, we write – respectfully – to dissent. One of us (Saxer)opposed Prop. 8 for civil rights reasons; Kmiec supported it for reasons of [...]

National Women’s History Month: Women, Engineering, and Emily Warren Roebling

Cross posted from Heidi Li on Equality at 51 Percent. NOW Those women that do choose the engineering profession … find that it’s tough being a woman engineer. Fact is, the U.S. engineering workforce is predominantly composed of white males. And ironically, though women make up more than half of the U.S. population, when it [...]

“Rush Week” and the Neverending Campaign

From Chris Cillizza at WaPo: Democrats are engaging in a concerted campaign to link the national Republican Party to conservative talk-radio show host Rush Limbaugh, an effort that will ramp up over the next few days in the form of another round of television ads and an increased rhetorical focus on the issue from Democratic [...]

Tuesday: Practicing politics to get to poetry

About a week ago, the NYTimes had a moving video about the recent resurgence of the Taliban in the Swat Valley of Pakistan.  The first thing the Taliban targets when it moves into an area is education for girls.  In this video, a pretty brave little 11 year old Pakistani girl tells what it is [...]