Earlier this month, the voters of Maine, Maryland and Washington voted to legalize same-sex marriage. Gay marriage is now the law in nine states and the District of Columbia. That leaves 30 states with constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage.
But public attitudes on this issue are evolving rapidly. Recent polls show that American people as a whole support gay marriage by a slender majority. Among Americans under 30, the majority is two-to-one. So what happens next?
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John Roberts, Chief Justice of the United States, was in Houston yesterday to help Rice University conclude its centennial celebrations. His appearance was billed as “A Conversation with the Chief Justice,” and a conversation was just what it turned out to be.
For over a century, British politicians has been wrestling with the knotty problem of what to do with the upper house of their national legislature. Prime Minister David Cameron and his coalition government are currently making another uneasy stab at reforming the House of Lords, and so far they have done little more than demonstrate once again how nettlesome the problem is.
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If an entire state could be crazy as a box of frogs, it would be Arizona. If a whole state could be crazy and brag about it, it would be Texas.
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Analysis of the Supreme Court decision on the health reform bill may be missing the mark by predictably focusing on what the government response will be and ignoring that changing America’s medical delivery system depends on two issues that are largely beyond government control.
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We’ve been subjected to everything from snarky bs to thermonuclear rhetoric, but we’ve never heard an honest, fact-based discussion about health care in the United States; what the problems are; what happens in the future if something isn’t done; and of course, the best way to fix it.
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Some liberal commentators have worked themselves into a righteous lather over the Supreme Court’s hearings on the constitutionality of Obamacare. In particular, E.J. Dionne, Jr. of the Washington Post accused conservative justices of acting “as an alternative legislature, diving deeply into policy details as if they were members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.”
It’s the conservatives, seethed Dionne, who are the real judicial activists, whom they pretend to deplore. What blatant hypocrisy!
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America: Armed and Dangerous
…the heat over the original intent of the 2nd Amendment and its relevance to life in 21st Century America has not cooled. Public debate over guns, gun ownership and gun control, when it occurs, rarely approaches rational…
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