Rick Perry shouldn’t have his manties in a bunch about not getting on the Virginia GOP Primary ballot. Nina Dobrev won a People’s Choice Award after being a write-in nominee.
The West Wing Explains The Debt Ceiling
For the sake of this demonstration, you are Kristin Chenoweth. Hat tip, Vulture.
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There are terrorists and racists and Stalinists and theocrats, but those are titles that must be earned. You must have the resume. Not being able to distinguish between real racists and tea partiers, or real bigots and Juan Williams and Rich Sanchez is an insult — not only to those people, but to the racists themselves, who have put forth the exhausting effort it takes to hate. Just as the inability to distinguish between terrorists and Muslims makes us less safe, not more.
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Hooray for California! To those who complain that judges made this decision and not voters I remind that the role of courts is to protect the rights of minorities who don’t have political power. Should the state of Arkansas have had a referendum asking: “Should Linda Brown be allowed into the white-only school in Little Rock?”, or was it appropriate for the courts to determine that her exclusion violated the equality promises of our nation? Should there have been in Virginia a referendum asking: “Should Mildred Jeter (a black woman) and Richard Loving (a white man) be allowed to marry in the state?” or was it appropriate for courts to step in and, despite the fact that it may have not been popular with the people of Virginia at the time, rule that the state’s ban of inter-racial marriages violated the equal protection clause?
