by Dwight Cathcart | Jan 22, 2015 | Fighting Back, Teenage Suicides
The president was in Boise, Idaho, on Tuesday, which is, as Rachel Maddow said, the reddest of red states, and the crowd around him was mesmerized, cheering him on. He spoke, briefly, of what has been accomplished in Washington. He touched lightly on his achievements,...
by Dwight Cathcart | Jan 16, 2015 | Marriage cases, SCOTUS
So, they took ‘em! This puts us in a different place entirely. Now the Supreme Court has granted the petitions from Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Having accepted that a split in the Circuit Courts is a bad thing, they pretty much had to, to resolve the...
by Dwight Cathcart | Jan 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
After showing a new video of the Kouachi brothers in Paris, Chris Hayes Tuesday night had a guest, Reza Aslan, a scholar of religions and author of No god but God, the Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam. Professor Aslan has studied the violence in the Middle East...
by Dwight Cathcart | Jan 6, 2015 | Fighting Back
Before the recent series of Supreme Court cases—Romer v. Evans (1996), Lawrence v. Texas (2003), and United States v. Windsor (2013)—, gay people had no constitutional rights in the United States. It was only after these court cases that gay people were recognized as...
by Dwight Cathcart | Jan 1, 2015 | Marriage cases, The future
So, this is the end of it.The best year ever for gay people (except for 1969 the year they rioted at the Stonewall, or 1996 the year they discovered protease inhibitors and HIV cocktails, and some others, like 1912 the year Marcel Proust first submitted In Search of...
