(Recorded March 28, 2015) This Week: (1) a quick-fire roundup of the week’s political news; (2) Ted Cruz announces his bid for the presidency; (3) a discussion of Al Sharpton’s place in history; and (4) Chris Borland & the NFL concussions crisis.
Monthly Archives: March 2015
#53: Poltical News Roundup; Israeli Elections; Budget Battle; Nemstov
(Recorded March 21, 2015) This Week: (1) A political news roundup; (2) the Israeli elections; (2) the GOP’s budget battle; and (3) the killing of Boris Nemstov.
#52: Congress & Iran; ΣΑΕ’s Racist Video; Death of American Democracy
(Recorded March 15, 2015) This week: (1) Congress writes a letter to Iran; (2) a racist video from the OU chapter of ΣΑΕ; (3) is American democracy doomed?
#51: Netanyahu’s Address; King v. Burwell; CPAC
(Recorded March 07, 2015) This week we discuss: (1) Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress; (2) King v. Burwell–It’s just a typo; and (3) the pageantry of CPAC.
This Congress, Your Honor?
Last week in the oral argument for King v. Burwell, Donald Verrilli got a good laugh from the audience in response to a hypothetical posed by Justice Scalia. See page 54, line 9 of the transcript. We noted this LOL moment in episode 51 (airing Tuesday), and I got to thinking, “There should be a Twitter bot that reads oral arguments and links to laugh lines.” So I accidentally pulled an all-nighter putting one together. Meet @LOLSCOTUS.
Hope v. Pelzer LOL p. 49 line 6 http://t.co/poKNftVNlY
— LOL SCOTUS (@LOLSCOTUS) March 9, 2015
Right now, it’s working through the back catalogue, but it should catch up with current arguments pretty soon. Above, you’ll find a tweet pointing all the way back to 2002.