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• Larry Craig and The Old Superman Trick: Trying to Turn the World Backward on Its Axis

  Published: September 12, 2007, 3:05 pm

  Tags: Law Amp Amp Legal Matters, Glbt Issues, Evolution, Senate, Ideologies, Law Enforcement, Homosexuality, Larry Craig

  Larry Craig has apparently gotten his court date in Minnesota. His case is scheduled four days before his first proffered resignation date, September 30th. He’s going to apply to wind the world-clock backward, to take back time. It’ll be interesting to see how the judge will rule… Senator Craig’s new plea before the court

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• Fact-Checking General Betray Us

  Published: September 20, 2007, 6:04 pm

  Tags: Politics, Military, War, Iraq, Ideologies, Robert Gates, Political Correctness, Sectarian Violence, Left Wing, Surge, Gen Petraeus, Withdrawal, Refugees, Spin, Pentagon, General David Petraeus

  The Washington Post’s Ad Watch Fact-Checker evaluates the claims made by MoveOn.org in its recent NY Times ad and concludes : The Pinocchio Test The data provided by Gen. Petraeus on sharply declining Iraqi casualty rates is certainly open to analysis, debate, and challenge. We plan to take a closer look at them in a future post. However,

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• Disentangling Perpetrators from Victims

  Published: September 25, 2007, 6:16 pm

  Tags: Law Amp Amp Legal Matters, Minorities, Racism, Crime, Ideologies

  When someone is accused of moral wrongdoing, they have the right to procedural protection and a fair hearing, and should not be presumed guilty of the act without cause. When someone has been morally wronged, they have a right to compensation and restitution, and should not be assumed to be lying about the wrong in absence of specific evidence to

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• 12-Year-Old Will Battle Bush For Democrats On Children's Health Care Issue

  Published: September 28, 2007, 6:53 pm

  Tags: Politics, 2008 Elections, Congress, Polls, Health, Health Care, Democrats, George W Bush, Republicans, Ideologies, Children, Family

  If the Democrats win big in 2008 partially due to the furor over President George Bush’s impending veto of a bill to fund children’s health care, they can thank the “little people.” Kids like a 12-year-old boy who the Democrats have picked to give the Democrats’ answer to the President’s weekly radio address

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• A Weak America Means a Weak Europe

  Published: October 9, 2007, 7:28 pm

  Tags: Europe, Ideologies, Anti Americanism, The Netherlands

  Does anti-Americanism threaten European interests? According to this op-ed article from the NRC Handlesblad of The Netherlands, America’s decline endangers European prestige, and will require EU leaders to do something they are ill-prepared for: fill the vacuum left by retreating American power. NRC Handlesblad, The Netherlands “As

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• Bush S-CHIP Veto

  Published: October 18, 2007, 8:43 pm

  Tags: Congress, Legislation, Health, Health Care, George W Bush, Republicans, Ideologies, Children, Family, Babies

  Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

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• Bush S-CHIP Veto

  Published: October 18, 2007, 8:43 pm

  Tags: Health, Congress, Legislation, Health Care, George W Bush, Republicans, Ideologies, Children, Family, Babies

  Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

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• Obama Suggests Hillary Clinton Hiding Behind Gender In Campaign

  Published: November 2, 2007, 12:49 pm

  Tags: Politics, 2008 Elections, Gender, Democrats, Republicans, Hillary Clinton, Ideologies

  Senator Barack Obama really took the gloves off this morning on NBC: Amid some buzz, newspaper and blog reporting that noted that in the most recent Democratic debate it was all the guys gang-blasting Hillary Clinton, Obama has raised the issue of whether Ms. Clinton is now using that “high concept” media and blog perception to try

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• Abortion: What It Takes To Make It To Earth

  Published: November 6, 2007, 12:21 am

  Tags: Abortion, Christianity, Evangelicals, Roman Catholics, Judaism, Medicine, Ideologies, Protestants, Political Correctness, Feminism, Religious Right, Christian Conservatives, Children, Family, Mother, Father, Babies, Philosophy

  I had a night dream long ago about how hard it was to get to earth. For those of us who get pregnant when just passing through a room where a man is reading a newspaper and no more, it has sometimes seemed as though women becoming pregnant, carrying to term, and laboring to bring a living baby into this world is easy, common, like falling out of a

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• So, What Exactly is a Moderate?

  Published: November 19, 2007, 10:38 pm

  Tags: Christianity, Ideologies, Political Philosophy, Religion, Moderates, Politics, 2008 Elections, Miscellaneous

  Several years ago, Slate magazine linked to a post from my blog and described me as “liberal Mark Daniels.” At about the same time, a blogger linked to something I’d written and called me “very conservative.” It’s an experience that I’ve had many times through the years. If that isn’t confusing

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• Civility is Okay So is the Constitution

  Published: November 20, 2007, 8:15 am

  Tags: Philosophy, Us Constitution, Political Philosophy, Ideologies, History

  [This is a rerun of a post I wrote for my personal blog a few weeks ago.] Not long ago, I listened to some of Talk of the Nation’s interview with Chris Matthews. Matthews told two interesting and evocative stories from his days as an aide to Democratic Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill. Both involved O’Neill and Republican

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• Romney Re-Launches

  Published: December 6, 2007, 10:58 am

  Tags: Moral Decline, Civil Liberties, Ideology, Religious Right, Christian Conservatives, Moral Values, Human Rights, Mormons, Ideologies, George H W Bush, Freedom Of Speech, Society, 2008 Elections, Mitt Romney, Christianity, Secularism, Evangelicals, Politics

  Just saw part of his speech HERE. Now he is being congratulated by George H. W. and Barbara Bush. Earlier this morning, I read excerpts from the speech he planned to give and concluded that Romney does not sufficiently respect the necessary separation of Church and State. MSNBC First Read comments on the excerpts. According to Political Wire,

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• Head Winds for the Reign of the People

  Published: December 9, 2007, 1:08 am

  Tags: Human Rights, Torture, Capitalism, Pro Democracy Movements, Political Philosophy, Communism, Freedom Of Speech, Ideologies, Liberalism, Foreign Affairs

  Arethe boom years freedom over and the forces of democracy in retreat? According to this column by Thomas Klau of Germany’s Financial Times Deutschland, with the world of ‘capital’ migrating toward authoritarian regimes like Russia and China and ‘decoupling’ from the liberal democracies, ‘democracy could be only

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• The American CIA: Defender of Humanity'

  Published: December 19, 2007, 7:47 pm

  Tags: Anti Americanism, Tyranny, Muslims, Fbi, World War Ii, Communism, Saddam Hussein, Islamism, Cold War, Cia, Ideologies, Iraq, Afghanistan, War, War On Terror, Sunnis, Terrorism, Islam, Shi Ites, History

  Has the CIA gotten a bad rap - especially in the Arab world? According to this op-ed article from Iraq’s Kitabat newspaper, the agency has performed, ‘noble and honorable works that have always been on behalf of the entire world and for the good of civilization, security and stability. It annihilated the Nazis, the communists, the

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• Awarding the Olympics to Beijing: A Mistake that Keeps on Giving

  Published: April 13, 2008, 5:04 pm

  Tags: Communism, The Netherlands, Nazis, Human Rights, Newspapers, Capitalism, Hypocrisy, Tyranny, Ideologies, China, History, Sports, Europe, Political Cartoons, Cartoon Commentary, Freedom Of Speech, Business

  After the failure of the 1980 U.S.-sponsored Olympic boycott, hadn’t the world learned its lesson about the ineffectiveness of such actions? According to this editorial from the Nederlands Dagblad, things have changed since then - not the least of which is the fact that unlike South Korea, which rapidly democratized in the run-up to the

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