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David Vitter survives because, not despite, of the prostitution angle

Niall Stanage has a piece up at Salon examining how David Vitter has managed to survive a rather comical sex scandal involving prostitutes and diaper-wearing. He makes a lot of good points about the situation in Louisiana and how Vitter is benefiting, but I think it’s useful to think about…

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Clearly, the culture war is not over

From Jessica comes the news that not only do 70% of Americans think that women should take their husband’s name, 50% of them said, “Yeah, sure” if asked if it should be legally required. It gets worse! What’s really distressing about this news – Laura Hamilton, the study’s lead author…

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Dance, hypocrites, dance!

For blatantly partisan reasons, I hope that H. Ross Perot makes a big stink out of the story of McCain’s first wife. From what I understand of the wingnut mind, the people already wary of McCain will feel vindicated about using his POW status against him as evidence that he’s…

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