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Well, the chief arbiters of life and death here in Florida are at it again. The Department of Children and Family Services (DCF) has spent time and resources unsucessfully attempting to keep a 13 year old girl in their care from having an abortion.
Read moreAP reports, “a provision in a House-passed energy bill would require federal compensation to private companies for costs associated with oil and gas leases that can’t be developed.” Specifically, the provision states that “if a permit denial or some other government action prevents a lease from being explored or developed,” taxpayers will be responsible for forking over billions to the oil companies to “compensate” them.
Read moreI found the following at A Scrivener’s Lament. The is the website for Delilah Boyd, who was kind enough to cite an article from this website in her weekly Blog Box column at Democraticunder.com which has over 60,000 subscribers. This was just too funny not to spread around. REPUBLICAN DICTIONARY
Read moreLast night, President Bush said the “whole goal” of his Social Security plan was to make sure ” nobody retired in poverty.” Bush’s sudden concern about “poverty” is touching, but millions of Americans could use the help before they retire. In President Bush’s first term, poverty rose for three straight years, especially for children.
Read moreFormer Vice President Al Gore says the GOP push to dismantle the filibuster is part of a larger movement to undermine the founding principles of the United States.
Read moreRepublican Alabama lawmaker Gerald Allen says homosexuality is an unacceptable lifestyle. As CBS News Correspondent Mark Strassmann reports, under his bill, public school libraries could no longer buy new copies of plays or books by gay authors, or about gay characters.
Read moreSo in 1979 the super-rich earned 3% of the money and paid 5% of the taxes. In 1999 the super-rich earned 10% of the money and paid 11% of the taxes. The Journal clearly has a different definition of “grew more progressive” than the rest of us.
Read moreThis from the LA Times is the prime example for why we must maintain the filibuster for judicial nominees. Here’s the kind of people the Bush Administration is nominating.
Read moreAs is so often the case, I?m trying to follow the logic in James “Krazy Kristian Kook” Dobson’s speech at the “Justice Sunday” (motto: Gonna Get Legislative On Your Asses) Conference. Ye ?ole bouncing ball of logic was careening around that Louisville church like a rabbit on a meth binge.
Read moreAmerica, with 1,516 U.S. fatalities in Iraq as of March 16, 2005, pays little public attention to its war dead. Indeed, aside from the printed obituaries in metro sections of dailies, there is little acknowledgment by the government or substantial reporting in the media of the soldiers who perish in Iraq and the families they leave behind. We do not see or hear them. They die alone on the hot sands of Iraq and their survivors grieve privately on American soil.
Read moreAmerica, with 1,516 U.S. fatalities in Iraq as of March 16, 2005, pays little public attention to its war dead. Indeed, aside from the printed obituaries in metro sections of dailies, there is little acknowledgment by the government or substantial reporting in the media of the soldiers who perish in Iraq and the families they leave behind. We do not see or hear them. They die alone on the hot sands of Iraq and their survivors grieve privately on American soil.
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