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Jon Carroll, in today’s San Francisco Chronicle, offers a very angry and personal take on the latest front in the culture wars: “gay adoption.” According to the Catholic News Service, “Catholic Charities of the Boston Archdiocese announced March 10 that it will stop providing adoption services rather than continue to comply with a state law … Read more
A friend pointed me to a story on jambase from Michael Kang (String Cheese Incident) and Chris Berry (Panjea), who are traveling in Africa, and this quote in particular: I highly suggest all of you leave the Unites States at some time soon to remove yourself from the “psychic net” our government has craftily woven … Read more
I love this quote from Jamie Raskin, a candidate for State Senate in Maryland: “Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You didn’t place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.” – Jamie Raskin, testifying Wednesday, March … Read more
Molly Ivins gets my vote again: I can’t see a damn soul in D.C. except Russ Feingold who is even worth considering for President. The rest of them seem to me so poisonously in hock to this system of legalized bribery they can’t even see straight…. Every Democrat I talk to is appalled at the … Read more
Molly Ivins on the South Dakota anti-abortion law: The state legislature of South Dakota, in all its wisdom and majesty, a legislature comprised of sons and daughters of the soil from Aberdeen to Zell, have usurped the right of the women of that state to decide whether or not to bear the child of an … Read more
This letter appeared in today’s San Francisco Chronicle: A thankless job Editor — Poor, dear, Mike DeNunzio, chairman of the San Francisco Republican Party (Letters, “Pelosi’s dodge,” March 2). It’s his job to defend the indefensible, and so in Thursday’s paper — as so many times before — Mike issues his canned denunciation of those … Read more
This is a transparently self-serving campaign couched entirely in altruistic terms, putatively for the good of his competitor. In other words, the present-day Republican Party in a single sentence.
From morons.org South Dakota recently passed a bill outlawing most abortions. Now of course such a bill is almost certainly unconstitutional according to court precedent from Roe vs Wade, and the bill is likely to be immediately challenged and prevented from taking effect. But that’s the idea. See the same people who whine and complain … Read more
zorca: … the bottom line is that cheney’s behaviors during quailgate only serve to exemplify his much greater sins of greed, callousness, power-mongering, and secrecy. if these larger sins aren’t what is at the heart of media discussions about the event, if there is no attempt to shine a light on the larger discrepancies, then … Read more
From the New York Times: LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Conservative commentator Ann Coulter, speaking at a traditionally black college, joked that Justice John Paul Stevens should be poisoned. Coulter had told the Philander Smith College audience Thursday that more conservative justices were needed on the Supreme Court to change the current law on abortion. … Read more