If you don't think the SCOTUS nominations are about overturning Roe v. Wade, think again
Mon Sep 26, 2005 at 12:07:16 PM PDT
There are cases coming up which could reinstate the ban on "partial birth" abortions (a term we have let the right successfully frame, IMO), and the Bush Administration is so confident that it'll get its nominations through, it is encouraging the Supreme Court to take them on.
Via the AP, and picked up by Yahoo News.
The Bush administration has asked the Supreme Court to reinstate a ban on a procedure that critics call "partial birth" abortions, setting up a showdown that could be decided by the president's new choice for the court.
More in extended...
Warning: Michael Jackson Sucks
Mon Jun 13, 2005 at 09:08:10 PM PDT
By that I mean (no, it's nothing dirty) that the news of the Michael Jackson verdict will suck the air out of every other news story this week. Watch the Bush Administration and their cronies carefully. I bet they'll be dumping the bad news like every day is Friday. Forget Felt, forget Cooney, forget Coin-gate, forget the quagmire that is Iraq. Michael Jackson is the star of this news cycle. That is, until another white woman goes missing.
The media: Look over here!
The public: Ooh, shiny!
My humble advice to Harry Reid and the Democratic leadership (who might not be paying attention to all this nonsense): if you have any important strategic initiatives, and you want anyone to actually notice, hold on to them for another week at least.
Why conservatives hate Canada
Tue Apr 19, 2005 at 07:50:05 AM PDT
Clearly, they have animosity towards any country that isn't 'merica and doesn't have any resources we can plunder, but I have noticed a particular vitriol in their rhetoric when it comes to Canada. I believe this is because Canada is an example of how
liberal policies work.
Check out today's New York Times editorial by David Frum (rhymes with "dumb") in the extended entry:
How to talk to a Republican
Fri Dec 10, 2004 at 10:26:37 AM PDT
As the saying goes, some of my best friends are Republicans. My best friend, in fact, counts herself as a member of the GOP. She votes that way because that's how her parents have always voted. Like many California Republicans (and I imagine there are others all over the country) she is fiscially conservative and socially liberal. And in the last election she voted for John Kerry.
(Psst... there's more below)
How to squash the Saddam issue
Thu Sep 23, 2004 at 09:34:43 AM PDT
Though Kerry has come out swinging this week on the Iraq issue (finally), Bush still scores points in every public appearance by claiming that Kerry thinks we'd be better off with Saddam still in power. Kerry needs to address this, and soon. If he has so far, I've missed it.
Americans are a fickle and contradictory lot. They'll say they believe the war in Iraq was a mistake, but at the same time they'll tell you they're glad that Saddam is out of there. Kerry wouldn't do himself any favors by taking the position that we should have left Saddam in charge, either directly or indirectly.
What he needs to say is that we shouldn't have been the only ones to take him out. He should have been removed, absolutely, but the burden should have been shared by an international coalition. That fairly simple explanation fits with his current theme and should put to rest the criticism that Kerry is somehow a Saddam apologist or sympathizer. Maybe Kerry has already said this essentially, but he needs to address and diffuse this specific comment head-on so that Bush can no longer use it in his stump speeches. I'm tired of hearing the applause this line usually gets from Bush's pre-screened, loyalty-oath-signing audiences.
The biggest threat to national security? SG-1 fans.
Mon Jul 26, 2004 at 11:41:16 AM PDT
Federal charges have been filed against the webmaster of this
Stargate SG-1 fan site, which is nothing new in the battle between fans and studios over copyright infringement, but what's interesting is that this time action was justified under the
Patriot Act. Scary.
And perhaps most disturbing of all, it was later revealed that the FBI invoked a provision of the USA Patriot Act to obtain financial records from his ISP. The FBI's abuse of its powers did not stop there. When they seized Adam's computer equipment, he was given written documentation stating that it would be returned within 60 days. The equipment that they did return did not arrive until more than 8 months later, and only then after much prodding from his lawyer. Much of it was damaged beyond repair - one laptop had a shattered LCD screen, an empty tape backup drive was ripped apart for no apparent reason, his fiancee's iBook was badly damaged when it was pried apart with a screwdriver.
Read the entire post for all the frightening details. Apparently, sci-fi fans are on a par with terrorists.
