Roy Edroso

What is minimalism? The case of the raped Ohio child I talked about yesterday very clearly shows one big specific problem with the overturn of Roe (and there's more to it than that, which I'll get to in a minute), That clarity is why conservatives…

I’m not surprised Texas passed this insane new law deputizing citizens to hunt down doctors (or even concerned loved ones) for bounties if they even try to help a woman get an abortion once they’re more than the ludicrously-brief six weeks pregnant.…

By now it’s pretty obvious that when conservatives swoon over the Founders, it’s not because they respect the rights their Constitution was supposed to preserve, but because, like themselves, the Founders considered women and blacks to be sub-human.…

Back in 1994 Kristen Clarke, now up for assistant U.S. Attorney General for civil rights, co-wrote a letter to the Harvard Crimson calling out defenders of Charles Murray's The Bell Curve, which famously posits that black people are intellectually…

© 2020 Elvert Barnes, used under a Creative Commons license [Here’s the third in a series of 2020 lookback pieces — see Part 1 and Part 2 if you haven’t already.] A year ago today, when nobody (that we knew of) had coronavirus, no fewer than 13…

Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but to me it's genuinely weird to see the President of the United States admitting that he's getting ready to steal the election. Oh, I don’t think so. I — we need nine justices. You need that. With the unsolicited…

Even with the departure of Jonah Goldberg, there remain some spectacularly awful writers at National Review like Victor Davis Hanson and David Harsanyi. But in these days of desperate last-ditch Trump defense, the less spectacular, more…

The Federalist: Sri Lanka Attacks Highlight Growing Worldwide Persecution Of Christians Author Kenny Xu leans hard on a Pew Research Center report -- but does not link directly to it, preferring for some reason the British Church Times, which screams…

The Federalist: Sri Lanka Attacks Highlight Growing Worldwide Persecution Of Christians Author Kenny Xu leans hard on a Pew Research Center report -- but does not link directly to it, preferring for some reason the British Church Times, which screams…

Jazz ain't dead, it don't even smell funny. • A snippet from a recent Roy Edroso Breaks It Down newsletter (TO WHICH YOU SHOULD SUBSCRIBE, he hollered with one hand to the side of his mouth like a newsboy in a '30s Warner Brothers picture, IT'S…

Last week, conservatives, who had previously made free speech heroes out of such shady subjects as would-be lady-killer Kevin Williamson and outrage peddler Milo Yiannopoulos, outdid themselves by nominating a new wingnut John Peter Zenger: Alex…

The normal pattern for American gun slaughters — a few days of thoughts and prayers, then we all forget it ever happened — was broken last week when surviving students of the February 14 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting decided to…

The Roy Moore circus continues, with Republicans and men of God going to the wall for the would-be Alabama senator accused of sexual improprieties and crimes. As I recorded last week, some conservatives were compelled by self-interest to declare…

As I watch wingnut bête noire Bill De Blasio cruising and Democrats romping in Jersey and Virginia, it is clear that for conservatives hoping to distract from the disastrous reign of Trump, the strategy of hailing the Sutherland Springs massacre as a…

As I watch wingnut bête noire Bill De Blasio cruising and Democrats romping in Jersey and Virginia, it is clear that for conservatives hoping to distract from the disastrous reign of Trump, the strategy of hailing the Sutherland Springs massacre as a…

Mueller Monday has arrived, and special counsel Robert Mueller’s first indictments in the Russian election interference investigation, against former Trump campaign officials Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, have been made official. Before giving…

Rightblogger reactions to Trump’s Obamacare sabotage last week remind us that despite the distance some of them try to keep between themselves and the president, when it counts he and they are basically on the same side. You may have been hearing…

It takes a lot to get conservatives to defend an employee’s freedom of speech. You never see them crying over people who lose their jobs for supporting Democrats, socialism, or “homophones,” or for saying things like, “Anyone know how to pass a drug…

Iowa's Steve King has gotten so obnoxiously and overtly racist -- defending his "we can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies" tweet by raving about "our stock," predicting race war, and recommending The Camp of the Saints -- that…

Iowa's Steve King has gotten so obnoxiously and overtly racist -- defending his "we can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies" tweet by raving about "our stock," predicting race war, and recommending The Camp of the Saints -- that…