[They see STDs and unplanned pregnancies as God's punishment for fornication.]

To play devils advocate for the moment, Planned Parenthood, and its involvement with providing abortion services, is a tangled web indeed. This may have been more about animus to that organization for its abortion enmeshment, and less about Sex Ed and disease prevention. Planned Parenthood should really spin off its abortion activities into a separate organization, with a separate name. Of course, abortions is where the money is, so bifurcation is probably not in the cards, and this will be an issue that simply will not go away, the way gay marriage will go away over time as an active issue.

Or maybe the "pro-life" alternatives to Planned Parenthood that these states want to get the funding instead should actually provide family planning services. Crisis pregnancy centers are not an acceptable alternative to Planned Parenthood from a public health standpoint. They don't provide birth control or treatment for STDs or women's health issues like breast cancer. All they do is tell pregnant women not to kill their baby and send them on their merry way. They do nothing to lower the likelihood of these women becoming pregnant again or help them in managing their health.

I would have less of a problem with this kind of thing if the pro-lifers were willing to create what was essentially a clone of Planned Parenthood minus the abortion services. But they have no interest in doing that. Because they really don't care about public health. They see STDs and unplanned pregnancies as God's punishment for fornication.

What's with all the blanket statements about social conservatives lately?

Alternatively stated, ubiquitous right-winger adherance to abstinance only "sex education" is a given notwithstanding results that range frrom middling to lousy.

Interesting. Please continue!

if one really wants a good country (bluegrass really) and hip hop mash up, check out Gangstagrass. They did the awesome theme to the. Tv show Justified, though the rest of their stuff is great.

First thing I thought when I heard the news this morning: 'Wonder what Al's going to post'.

You know you've been on the Forum too long when.....

Who cares about people who say they support civil unions? Bush said he supported it in 2004. The current pope said he supported it. Last refuge of the bigots.

The fact is civil unions are a worthwhile compromise in states where gay marriage itself won't fly anytime soon. Suppot for civil unions is uniformly stronger, and markedly so. Allowing CUs will also accelerate acceptance of gay marriage in many places where the great fear of the unknown and unintended consequences. It's pretty toug to argue that wen a state's recognized CUs for several years.

I'm not saying they should be pushed in states like RI & NJ where SSM seems on the neArhorizon, but in the majority of red and purple atates however.

Collins needs to step up.

Yeah, seriously.

She'll probably wait till it's too late (leggally or practically) for a primary challenge.

And for Portman it was clearly a personal decision affecting his family, and for Kirk a matter of electoral survival.

The man in the OP technically is employed so they didn't lie to him, only misled him into thinking he would be employed as a lawyer.

It's not even an outstanding claim.  At the peak of the recession unemployment for people with a BA never broke 5-6%.  I imagine third rate law degrees carry 97% employment.

If you want guaranteed employment, go into Accounting.  Otherwise, accept your fate.

Or, don't let schools falsely advertise guaranteed (or near-guanranteed) employment. It's consumer fraud, pure and simple.

There's only a dearth of sympathy because the plaintiffs are fledgling lawyers, and ergo our cultural myth assumes they're all going spend their life filing frivilous lawsuits and get rich doing so regardless.

Breaking down various forms of metal and "core" genres by voting habit is as useless as doing so for most sub-sets of hip-hop (e.g. krunk, southern, east coast, etc.).

Suffice to say that Christian and Country music fans vote overwhelmingly Republican. Almost as much as classic rock, an overwhelming white, middle-aged (or older), and skews male. "Pop", to the extent it isn't "urban", is heavily white female, and thus largely dependant on age, running from probably mixed voting for younger voters to notably (but not overwhelimingly) GOP for listeners closer to middle-age.

So... were the reports misleading or did a major economic crisis hit in between?

The former. It's well-established that law schools, especially the poorly regarded ones, basically blatantly lie in their marketing materials (e.g., they'll report a median income among graduates of $100k, but it just so happens that only 10 students of a graduating class of 200 responded to their income survey, and those 10 students just so happen to have the best jobs of all members of the graduating class--or they report 95% employment at graduation, but that excludes unemployed students who just happened not to respond to the survey, or it includes students employed by the law school in temporary jobs created specifically to massage the job stats). I'm not sure the students themselves should have an action (on the one hand, the law schools are engaged in deceptive marketing, but on the other hand alternative, accurate sources of information are easily and readily available*), but the ABA's failure to monitor law schools' publicly reported employment statistics is shameful.

The economy did hit the legal profession fairly hard, but that's not the real problem here.

*This is basically what the courts that have rejected these claims have said. "Yes, your law school lied to you, but we think law students are sophisticated consumers who should know not to trust law schools."

If you are taking law at one of these screwy schools, you really need to rethink that decision.

No, the problem is actually wisespread rather a few bad apples. I learned about it it from a co-worker who has written multiple articles regarding such deceptive practices by law schools. I believe feinstein has proposed legislation requiring they be more truthful and transparent in their claims. 

Hear, hear, I say.

Okay, random extremists in state legislature somewhere proposing nutty law is common.

The real question is whether this bill is getting any traction whatsoever in the GOP caucus.

I don't think she was.  What we saw was The Ashley Judd trial balloon.  The balloon wasn't made of lead, but it deflated.

This. She's an activist celebrity who was courted for high office against a very high profile office. Who wouldn't be tempted to seriously explore such a career opportunity.

Unfortunately for McConnell, reality reared it's ugly head to Judd, and now he'll have to contend with a much more serious contender in Grimes.

I think he'll run, but I hope he doesn't

I really like Kirk, and I wish he was in a state where the Democrats had no chance, but he's in a blue state in a presidential year. He's got no chance. It'd feel better if the Dems took an empty seat than snatching it from him.

As for the possibility of the Dems nominating a bad candidate, the most likely candidates are Madigan (In the off chance she doesn't primary Quinn), Mike Quigley, or Tammy Duckworth. None of those three are weak candidates who'd make fun of his stroke or do something stupid.

Duckworth is bad enough to lose to Kirk.

I've heard complaints about her but I don't actually know why she's so hated. Care to tell me why?

Not hated so much as underwhelming. By most reports, her campaigning and interpersonal skills simply don't match up to her stellar candidate resume. She's so great on paper, she apparantly fails to meet (perhaps inflated) expectations in person.

Judging from his voting record, his ideology is genuinely liberal, albeit perhaps of the noblesse oblige variety. Even when WV was reliably Democratic, he could've run substantially to the right (especially on social and foriegn policy issues) to solidify his position in the state. Remember, he had a close initial election in 84, and actually lost his first race for governor in the 70's.

He could've been a Zell Miller type (minus the crazy). He didn't because that's just not what he believes in.

'Have to post this from DKE:

And I just want to add, PPP nailed it yet again. They were the only firm to offer a public poll of a very difficult-to-poll runoff, and they found Sanford up 13. He won on Tuesday night by 14. Hard to get much better than that.

Only firm? Nope.



SuperPAC Poll, Pre-Primary: Sanford 49, Bostic 36

    A new poll by newly formed S.C. super PAC, Conservative Solutions, shows Sanford as a shoo-in.

Well, if PAC supporting Sanford says he's a shoo-in.......

Someone explain to me again why brashear isn't running...?

Excellant analysis, King.

Lack of aggragate consumption, not lack of investment, is what's hindering economic growth.

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Aye

Oh. I was thinking of Keystone Phil.

Me too. Here I thought somone had hacked my files at work.

Hmmmm. If bob kerry could make a surprisingly close race for comeback as senator thanks to a poor opponent last year, and jerry brown set the precedence of winning the governorship 30 years after leaving.....

This guy won't get 2%. Probably not even 1%.

Though in a close race between scott and crist.....

While he's probably favored to win, people are foolish to say he has it in the bag.

The Bush power structure doesn't exist in Texas anymore. George P. can get all the money he wants at fundraisers in Dallas. But can he get enough people to get out and vote for him?

Being a fundraising cash-cow and having great name recognition does not guarantee you anything in the Republican Party these days. If it did, then where's Senator David Dewhurst? Where's presidential nominee Rick Perry?

From all I've heard, geo p is widely popular with the gop party, from the fundraisers down to the county level.

Didn't see that coming. Huge break for mcauliffe.

Nay, FTR