“Last Thursday, the gay GOP group Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) placed a full-page ad in the New York Times that attacked Chuck Hagel as anti-Israel and anti-gay and urged President Obama not to appoint him as Defense Secretary. This was quite a strange event for multiple reasons.”* Does Chuck Hagel …

“Instead of trying to make sense of any of this, or even begin to explain it, I’m just going to ask questions right along with everybody else. Why would you be so trashy that you have a picture of your wife in a seductive pose wearing your favorite football team’s …

“Is a man who enters a sleeping woman’s dark bedroom and tricks her into having sex by impersonating her boyfriend guilty of rape? According to a state appeals court, no. But if she had been a married woman? Yes. Talk back LA The reluctant 2nd District Court of Appeal unanimously …

“If econometric studies were all there were to the story of lead, you’d be justified in remaining skeptical no matter how good the statistics look. Even when researchers do their best—controlling for economic growth, welfare payments, race, income, education level, and everything else they can think of—it’s always possible that …

“Prior to President Obama’s first inauguration in 2009, a controversy erupted over reports that he intended to appoint John Brennan as CIA director. That controversy, in which I participated, centered around the fact that Brennan, as a Bush-era CIA official, had expressly endorsed Bush’s programs of torture (other than waterboarding) …

“Spiritual leader Asaram Bapu courted controversy for suggesting that the victim of the brutal sexual assault was equally responsible for the crime and saying the girl could have called her assailants brothers and begged them to stop. Asaram’s remarks on the gangrape of the 23-year-old girl sparked condemnation across the …

“Some Republicans are itching for a fight on President Barack Obama’s nomination of former Sen. Chuck Hagel to be defense secretary. Sen. Lindsey Graham warned that Hagel would be the most “antagonistic secretary of defense toward the state of Israel.” Neoconservative guru William Kristol is already cranking up the attack …

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