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  • Dahlia Lithwick Uses Recipes to Write a Legal Column About..

    ... ABORTION. Lithwick's very idea that women do not have reproductive choice, if they cannot extinquish the life growing in their own wombs, is in and of itself faulty. I mean, my God, did the female have sex with the guy, or did she not? As to being ''for change'' in everything but pro-Abort American policies at home and abroad, not everyone ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard2 on August 21, 2008

  • Hitch On Helms like White on Rice

    Gee Hitchens, why don't you and the Queen of England tell us how you really felt about that North Carolinian champion Senator Jesse Helms? I did not know him very well, living in the Midwest among Chicago Democrats and Suburban ''Collar County'' Repubs early in life, and then moving to New England, where both the Democrats and the Republicans have ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on July 7, 2008

  • Government abuse of power

    South Dakotas law relating to doctor patient communication and abortion: This is just another method for people using and abusing government power. They attempt to control others and legislate morality by forcing their beliefs (usually based on their religion) upon all of society. Their goal is to limit freedom and force conformity with their ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by den99md on July 4, 2008

  • A Young(er) Woman's Perspective....Why Hillary (not Gloria)

    In recent days a steady stream of women have celebrated and lauded Gloria Steinem's recent piece in the NYT. Many encourage others to circulate the piece further. Respectfully, I disagree. Ms. Steinem's piece, though well intentioned I'm sure, pits the women's movement against the civil rights movement. Such false competition is divisive, ...
    Posted to Politics by batnib on January 16, 2008