A common right-wing argument is that Roe vs. Wade was bad because abortion policy should be decided at state level. Somehow, though, I doubt they’ll object to Congress trying to ban abortions beyond 20 weeks.
•More protests about the “lying Muslim traitor” being too open on immigration policy.
•Rod Dreher suggests that while the recent Muslim terrorist attack in Paris was wrong, “decadence” like the kind promoted by the terrorists’ victims is a much greater threat to us.
•In an ongoing whistleblower trial of Jeffrey Sterling, the government insists that as journalist James Rosen refuses to talk to the feds about his sources, therefore the defense can’t call him as a witness.
•A Fox News psychiatrist says the person who should be on trial for Michael Brown’s death is Brown’s father. Because if he’d brought the kid up right, he wouldn’t have been so evil, so there you are. Somewhere …
•Mike Huckabee explains that if you’re not a thug, police won’t shoot you, so protesters shouldn’t pretend there’s a problem.
•Congressmen are pushing to exempt Internet providers from FCC net neutrality regulation.
•From last year (but new to me), a look at Oakland’s desire for a mini-surveillance state that will crack down on political protest.
•United has replaced unionized baggage handlers at the Denver Airport with cheap contract labor. Astonishingly, the quality of the work is less.
•Senator Marco Rubio is shocked that the courts can overturn Florida’s gay marriage ban—how can that be Constitutional? As someone says in comments at the link, it’s unlikely he’ll have the same reaction if the courts overturn Obamacare.
•Digby suggests American attitudes aren’t as far removed from the terrorists in the Paris killing as we’d like to think.
•The National Review fights against income equality—government shouldn’t make solar energy companies richer by giving them special benefits. Apparently the welfare millions of other businesses receive is A-OK.
