So now GOP Senator Orrin Hatch is proposing a law to mandate drug testing all unemployed workers. You would have to test negative for drugs to receive unemployment compensation. Small, minor detail: Such a law would be unconstitutional. It would be a major violation of rights. OK, we all know that the Republican claim to [...]




Let Molly Ivins Speak from Your Site!
The late, great Molly Ivins is still with us in spirit, of course. One can imagine her pithy commentary on current events.
Molly would have loved to be here to see Obama elected. She would have had a field day making fun of Coleman trying to sue to get back the Senate seat he lost to Al Franken in a close but scrupulously recounted election. She would have skewered the hypocrisy of—-well, just too many to list—and we would have all had fun watching her do it.