{"id":19757,"date":"2011-01-03T22:30:43","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T05:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/03\/unblogged-bits-mon-3-jan-11-2230.html"},"modified":"2011-01-03T22:30:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T05:30:43","slug":"unblogged-bits-mon-3-jan-11-2230","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/03\/unblogged-bits-mon-3-jan-11-2230.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Mon. 3-Jan-11 2230)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. The new litmus test<\/a> – “But that was before the GOP fell off the right-wing cliff. Now every Republican who was even remotely sensible on this ‘better have an explanation, an excuse or a mea culpa for why this won’t happen again.'”<\/li>\n
  2. Scalia: Women Don’t Have Constitutional Protection Against Discrimination<\/a> – So, despite the plain language of the 14th Amendment, Scalia believes that those who the writers at the time would not have thought of as covered by it (Women, Gays … Jews? Latinos? Atheists?) are not. Presumably he thinks the same about the other civil rights amendments — the First Amendment would only apply to religions that the Founders would agree should be free to practice, to political speech the Founders would have recognized as such, etc. Lovely.<\/li>\n
  3. Fischer Says Leading GOP Presidential Hopefuls All Fall Short<\/a> – I’m sure Fischer would be more than happy to be recruited to the cause …<\/li>\n
  4. Lindsey Graham Threatens To Hold Debt Ceiling Vote Hostage For Regressive Social Security Cuts<\/a> – And the plan becomes clearer. They aren’t crazy whackos out to blow up stuff for no good reason; they are just playing as crazy whackos in order to extort what they can’t get through normal legislative channels.<\/li>\n
  5. North American English Dialects<\/a> – I need to examine this in more detail, but it looks very cool.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. The new litmus test – “But that was before the GOP fell off the right-wing cliff. Now every Republican who was even remotely sensible on this ‘better have an explanation, an excuse or a mea culpa for why this … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Mon. 3-Jan-11 2230)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50202,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/28\/scalia-has-an-odd-understanding-of-the-first-amendment.html","url_meta":{"origin":19757,"position":0},"title":"Scalia has an odd understanding of the First Amendment","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 28-Apr-15 3:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Or he's been reading too many Conservative Christian fear mags.As Justice Kagan noted, Jewish rabbis who choose not to marry mixed-religion couples are still licensed by the state to officiate at marriages. 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