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  • 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

  • Not quite correct

    It seems that ''Telling Doctors What to Think'' is somewhat misleading about exactly what the 8th circuit did. From my reading of the ruling the 8th circuit vacated a preliminary injunction against the law, but that Planned Parenthood's case against the law will continue in the lower court. This means that while the law will go into effect, ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by zosima on July 3, 2008

  • Why Serena Won't Vote

    No where in the Bible does it say not to vote. It clearly states that we are to obey those in Government authority and it is a voluntary law and our right to be able to vote. Many 'religions' take the Word of God out of context to suite their own traditions and their own lifestyles. Jesus called the religious leaders 'hypocrites' because they ...
    Posted to Explainer by taultales on June 28, 2008

  • Swinging with Passion Makes for Bad Case Law

    Justice Anthony Kennedy is a passionate man. He was a passionate judge and now je is a passionate Justice. But while one may want zealousness in one’s representation in the legal arena, passion in deciding law is dangerous, if not outright foolishness. Passions are swayed. Passions are fired up. Passions are capricious. On April 18, 2007, Ms. ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by IMKessel on June 20, 2008

  • For those opposing gay marriage...

    Some important points for those of you who oppose gay marriage: 1) This is not about religion. California's decision to permit gay marriages does not mean gay people are getting married in your church. Your church has every right to continue to prohibit gays from getting married. This is about the government granting gay couples rights such as ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by voxpop78 on June 18, 2008

  • Cost of Rights

    If the same imbecilic and offensive arguments were made for other groups discriminated against, Martin Luther King would be famous for saying ''I have a dream that everyone will understand the economic benefit of having my children eating at the same lunch counter as white children. I have seen the promised land and my children are going to sit ...
    Posted to Explainer by drewhyde on June 16, 2008

  • Everything Clintons do is intentional

    Are you kidding me? Everything Bill and Hillary do are designed. There is no spontanaeity, unless Bill tries to seduce a woman other than his wife. This was like the Nixonian code of the past. Remember, ol' Hillary was once a Republican, and a Goldwater Girl, when Goldwater was against Civil Rights legislation! Old habits die hard and the image ...
    Posted to Politics by LXG on May 10, 2008

  • Mayville, NY

    I was in Mayville, the county seat out on Lake Chautauqua a number of years ago around Halloween, in a diner just down the hill from the last public hanging in the state of New York. Across the street at the county courthouse was the media van with its satellite up link. A young man had been arrested for allegedly knowing he had AIDS, had sex with ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by georgejmyersjr on April 14, 2008

  • Lead With Bevel's Heroism...

    and drop halfway down to the dirty details. This is repugnant journalistic behavior. There is no amount of apology, lauditory comments or hero worship that makes up for his incest - NONE! And for the details to wait until AFTER the praise for Bevel's civil rights work is one more symptom of how men behave when it comes to sexual abuse and ...
    Posted to Chatterbox by mabelle55 on April 11, 2008

  • Re: Racism is not the only form of discrimination!!!

    As a woman who graduated from college in the '50s, I would not compare my status to that of African-Americans during slavery or Jim Crow. But I do bristle a bit when Michelle Obama or Barack, for that matter, or Inquisitor make light of the limitations on women of that era. Michelle Obama was able to graduate from Princeton, a university which in ...
    Posted to Chatterbox by alou on March 26, 2008
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