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  • Polanski

    Just because an adult is sexually stimulated by the sight or actions of a child does not excuse his actions. Your author attempts to excuse Polanski by saying the thirteen-year-old victim he raped behaved provocatively. So where does this slippery slope end? With the three-year-old tot who has learned that ''flirting'' melts an adult and yields ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Mary Golden on October 14, 2009

  • Palin's Choice

    I love the thought of women ascending to high office. While women haven't hit the executive office yet, many fine and talented woman have been in the Senate, Congress, and cabinet positions for decades. As a child of the 70s I myself am abundantly gifted with the benefits of the 70s woman's movement. But the thing that bothers me about Sara ...
    Posted to XX Factor Extra by kgcobb on September 3, 2008

  • The Cost Of Reckless Sexual Appetite

    The Abortion Cartell is making Billions on plaing their bets between a zipper vs a knife. Now the Cartell prospers in the same fashion as the Bank prospers when one bounces a check. In the end does it really matter if it was by accident or reckless disregard? If an honest mistake, one can call the Bank and pleads one's case for mercy. ...
    Posted to XX Factor Extra by Volubrjotr on August 16, 2008

  • How can murder be "moral"?

    I don't understand where there is ''morality'' in abortion. Even if you can somehow muster up an excuse for the murder of the unborn, but where is the morality here? I can never understand why this is called ''a mothers right to choose'' - who has a right to choose someone ELSE'S life? That the baby is safely within the mother's womb gives the ...
    Posted to XX Factor Extra by Joshkala on August 14, 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