Words matter.  Definitions count. Take rape, for example.  House Republicans apparently believe that rape is only really rape if it involves force.  You’d be hard pressed to get Rep. John Boehner to publicly admit as much, but he doesn’t have to.  He just needs to stand behind one of his first policy priorities of the [...]

Instead of simply calling out the racists trying to repeal the 14th Amendment, how about we do a little horse-trading and swap out birthright citizenship in exchange for corporate personhood.

When repealing the 14th Amendment was merely a talking point of the fringe right, like many others I dismissed it as lunacy that could never gain any traction.  I mean, who in their right mind, in 2010, would want to return to the days of Dred Scott and de jure segregation, separate but equal and [...]