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Case, and i don't think we've heard it in the argument from my friend, any legitimate difference between married gay couples on the one hand and straight married couples on the other, that can possibly explain the sweeping categorization of doma, section three of doma. and no one has identified any legitimate federal interest that is being served by congress's decision for the first time in our nation's history to undermine the determination of the sovereign states with respect to eligibility for marriage. i would respectfully contend that this is because there is none. rather, as the title of...

Sign this brief in yesterday's case urging the court to strike down california's prop 8. >> it sort of scrambles my circuits. you know what i thought when i read this, was if the supreme court doesn't strike down doma, i wonder if this very, very issue would lead to a congressional repeal of doma, because this is such an urgent matter, and this is -- to me, i went straight to the logistics of this. if you were on a base and you're married and you have kids, are they denied access? because everything is provided by the federal government. so if you live on a base with your spouse and children, ...

Not defending it. so who's defending it then? somebody else had to be brought onboard to defend it, and in this case it was the house republicans. hi, john boehner, who decided that they would defend it with your taxpayer money. they argued laura paul clement to argue to uphold the law. and paul clement's argument today was that this isn't discrimination at all. it's just that the federal government likes to keep things simple. listen. >> i think what that shows and that when the federal government gets involved in the issue of marriage, it has a particularly acute interest in uniform treatmen...

Okay, fair warning. i am obsessed with this story. this is the uss guardian stuck off the coast of the philippines. a giant ship being stuck on something is never a good thing. but this one happened to get stuck specifically on a unesco world heritage site, embedding its rudders in the middle of a national park in the philippines. early on once we got stuck on it, the plan was to tow the reef off at high tide. that did not work. in fact, the mine sweeper only got more stuck. ultimately the navy had to give up the ship. navy agreed for the first time in 40 years to scrap the ship.

Of the ship containing the auxiliary motor room. so that leaves two pieces of the ship still left on the reef but ready to go. it's expected to be completed by the end of next week, and the remaining 990 tons of steel should be lifted out of there the week after that. meanwhile, on land, as you might imagine, this has sparked anti-american anger in the philippines. shortly after it happened, protesters threw paint at those guarding it in manila. look, they've got guys in scuba suits out there with tape measures recording the exact amount of reef we have damaged. we are going to have to pay a b...