lets start with a word from dianne feinstein ok now my own words. but before i talk about marriage this is the point where i get to hathors remarks earlier about theocracy and discuss the question of how faith should interact with politics. my thoughts people of any faith or no faith of course get to vote their values. and its only to be expected that faith will influence peoples political valu...
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tanehisi coates a thug for them deadenders thugging for me. eve is right about the general awesomeness of tnc. steven barnes why talk to the tree drima reading your way to a lonely place. michael ross at the root oh lord kumbaya. kelele the african bloggers conference. the republic of t equality in connecticu t. souther n poverty law center blog foxs cavuto wins splcs dobbsy award for pinning b...
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ok so if youre a corporate titanic and your failure is gigantic congress doesnt have a helping hand for you. not today anyway. and not till after rosh hashanah at least. lshana tova. or as marketwatch put it house to wall street drop dead. and surprisingly thats house republicans to wall street drop dead along with a significant minority of house democrats. but i promised you abortion links...
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my trip was great we all had a wonderful time helping to celebrate my sisters promotion and i had a good time meeting some of the bloggers i most admire eve tushnet met me for lunch on the same day i visited the afghan gold exhibition. eve turns out to be much the same mix of philosophy religion dominicanadmiration bookchat and probing questions i do hope she takes that lunch off her income ta...
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watch out i can feel the mad blogs stirring out there in watchmenan ticipation land ive got a course syllabus to plan and eve tushnet isnt helping with her......
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last week john schwenkler posted the latest in a series of welltaken criticisms of those of us antiwarriors who plan to vote for senator obama. the fundamental conflict here is between johns claim that if we all beat the drums nice and loudly on the issues that are close to our hearts and refuse to join into marriages of convenience where too many core principles are violated theres the possibilit...
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harriet mcbryde johnson on peter singer he is the man who wants me dead. no thats not at all fair. he wants to legalize the killing of certain babies who might come to be like me if allowed to live. . . . even as i am horrified by what he says and by the fact that i have been sucked into a civil discussion of whether i ought to exist i cant help being dazzled by his verbal facility. he is so r...
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