I don't know the answer, but how did they get Michelle Obama to pose for the picture for this article at the home page?

I fear opening the hornet's nest, but Lincoln # 1? How do you reconcile Lincoln's direct contravention of the D of I's standard that the citizens have a right to alter or abolish their govt? Isn't that what the South wanted to do, just to leave? How does Lincoln's denial of the right of secession affect any attempt to disown the actions of the govt since?

anon, I assume you have set yourself up as arbiter of all that is and isn't conservative?

The accusation of being responsible for all the lives lost on 9/11 is so loony that I quit reading at that point.

I'm a baseball fan and it always rankles me to hear a baseball manager described as "good" or bad". Like most people, most managers have things they do well, and things they don't do so well. I think the same is true of presidents. Bush 43 did some things well, and had some clear weaknesses. Evaluating a prez requires more gradations than just bad or good.

This strikes me as assuming things we don't really KNOW about the Tsarnaevs --- that they were obsessed with Chechen injustice, or that the elder bro dominated the younger.

Exactly. If it was a meeting in the prof's office or something similar, it would be a different matter...but a public college lecture?

When I was in college many students audio-taped lectures rather than taking notes. With the new technology, video-tape doesn't seem unreasonable. How can a prof complain that students record their lectures?

John, I'm happy with your believing that I am wrong. However, I am not happy that you, as, presumably, a conservative would tell me that your opinion should trump mine. If your side wins at the ballot box, as it did with Prop 8, OK. If mine wins in some future vote, OK. That's what Saunders' column says ---- that to be lasting the vote has to come from the people, not from a court.

What? I don't know a single gay person who has a fondness for the occult or pedophilia. Child sacrifice???? WTF?