Category Archives: crossposted on TADA

Marrige Equality Wins In New York

I am a very happy camper right now. From the New York Times: Lawmakers voted late Friday to legalize same-sex marriage, making New York the largest state where gay and lesbian couples will be able to wed, and giving the … Continue reading

Posted in crossposted on TADA, Same-Sex Marriage | 18 Comments

Supreme Court, In A 4-4 Vote, Affirms Sexist Discrimination Against Fathers

[Crossposted at Family Scholars Blog.] I wrote about Flores-Villar v. United States last year. The Times summarizes the state of the law in 1974, when Ruben Flores-Villar was born: Children born outside the country to an unmarried American parent are … Continue reading

Posted in crossposted on TADA, Feminism, sexism, etc, Immigration, Migrant Rights, etc, Sexism hurts men, Supreme Court Issues | 14 Comments

Obama Breaks Law With Impunity And Cherry-Picked Legal Opinions

The New York Times reports on the process by which President Obama came to the Orwellian legal conclusion that our actions in Libya are not “hostilities,” and thus do not need Congress’ approval under the War Powers Resolution. As the … Continue reading

Posted in crossposted on TADA, In the news, International issues | 18 Comments

New York State on the verge of passing Same-Sex Marriage

From The New York Times: Three other Republican state senators, speaking on condition of anonymity because their conference had not yet formally debated the measure, said they believed the bill was almost certain to come up for a vote and … Continue reading

Posted in crossposted on TADA, Same-Sex Marriage | 5 Comments

Judge Ware Denies Motion To Vacate Decision Overturning Prop 8

Judge Walker, the judge who ruled against the defendants in the Proposition 8 case (the “defendants,” in this case, are those defending Prop 8; the “plaintiffs” are those who sued to have Prop 8 overturned), retired earlier this year, and … Continue reading

Posted in crossposted on TADA, Same-Sex Marriage | 3 Comments

In Defense of Partianship

“We are told that Mr. Blaine has been delinquent in office but blameless in public life, while Mr. Cleveland has been a model of official integrity but culpable in personal relations. We should therefore elect Mr. Cleveland to the public … Continue reading

Posted in crossposted on TADA, Elections and politics | 7 Comments

Open Thread and Link Farm: You Know What The Meat Drawer Is? Edition

Post what you want, when you want it. Self-linking is even better than maple bacon. To quote Feministe: The Best Thing You Will Read Today: A column on princesses, ultimate fighting, bikinis and gender roles. 18 Killed in Wave of … Continue reading

Posted in crossposted on TADA, Link farms | 112 Comments

Wanna Support Marriage? End The Drug War. Fight Unemployment.

[Crossposted on Family Scholars Blog.] As an unintended consequence of participating in so many arguments about marriage equality, I’ve read a lot of work by so-called marriage advocates. Although on the subject of same-sex marriage I haven’t found their arguments … Continue reading

Posted in crossposted on TADA, Economics and the like, Families structures, divorce, etc, Prisons and Justice and Police | 30 Comments

Kathryn Edin: “Everything we used to think about the poor with regards to marriage is probably wrong.”

[Crossposted on Family Scholars Blog] Kathryn Edin is the co-author of Promises I Can Keep. I’d recommend that every Family Scholar blogger and reader read this book (and probably many already have). An Amazon review usefully summarizes the book: Kathryn … Continue reading

Posted in crossposted on TADA, Families structures, divorce, etc | 2 Comments

Doing this is wrong, wrong, wrong. And funny. But wrong.

A liberal prankster volunteers at Jane Corwin for Congress’ phone bank. (Corwin is a Republican.) “Jesus!” a guy screams at me. “You know, I was thinking about voting for Corwin, but this is too much! You people have called me … Continue reading

Posted in crossposted on TADA, In the news | 5 Comments