Looks like the California Supreme Court may have teed up exactly an idea I’ve kicked around for years: getting the State out of the “marriage” business altogether. I’d missed this par from the majority opinion on my first scan (well, it’s 200 pages long), as spotted by Chris Crain, via Andrew Sullivan:

Even though marriage becomes […]

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Down to less than 2%….

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By a one-vote majority, the California Supreme Court has struck down the state’s marriage law, to take effect in 30 days. Read on for some analysis and what’s likely to happen in the effort to overturn it this November…

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Cross posted from Brassneck:
In a speech presumptive Republican nominee John McCain is to give gave today in Columbus, Ohio, sketching out his fantasy first term (via Marc Ambinder), he offers a litany of promises about setting “a new standard for transparency and accountability”. Among the most intriguing:

I will ask Congress to grant me the privilege […]

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Bitter, much?
The Washington Post columnist Marie Cocco shares the aftertaste some feminists (though not, apparently, Naral) are feeling about Hillary Clinton’s all-but-failed presidential bid (John Edwards turned up at the end of the party to turn out the lights; roundup of effects from the blogger who had the scoop hours early), including this choice tidbit:
I […]

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per this event.
But the drum keeps beating:

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Today is the Day of Jubilee. It’s over. (Probably.)
Matt Drudge went first. Then Tim Russert, Chuck Todd, then Pat Buchanan and Karl Rove. Then Politico’s Ben Smith.
Clinton has cancelled her public schedule for today.
Ben Smith gets to the deep logic of why the race is over. By withstanding six weeks of Freak […]

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We’re so fond of Slate.com’s discovery of the widget - and this particular deathwatch - that we thought we’d give it our support. Yeah, we know it’s cheesy. And the analysis could be better. But when the boat finally sinks beneath the waves, it’ll be like the credits finally rolling on that horror film with […]

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Seriously. Is it irony to announce your anti-poverty czar plan the same day everybody learns that there are only 14,000 people in America who made more than you in the past 8 years? Or is it just the Clintons?
My favourite bits - the $475,000 in one day for two speeches in Canada, and the […]

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“C is for clinton…that’s good enough for me?” And is John McCain really a Minotaur?
We already told you what kind, though.
She’s done Colbert. She’s suffered enough. Obama should bring her back now.

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