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Souter Home Condemned?

Come on! Be reasonable. You're making this personal. With Souter, it's all about theory: > Angered by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that sided with a Connecticut city that wanted to seize homes for economic development, a group of activists is trying to get one

Psycho Killer Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa

> A new study from New Zealand, published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, raises important questions about the effect of abortion on women's mental health. Researchers found those reporting an abortion prior to age 21 had rates of mental disorders from age 21 to 25

Bring Me the Women

A writer reconsiders [http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/debrasaunders/2006/01/20/183138.html] the argument--which she previously rejected--that same-sex marriage leads to polygamy. > When social conservatives argue that legalizing same-sex marriage could lead to legalized polygamy, same-sex marriage advocates either laugh or

Catholic Neighborhoods

The same Atlantic article mentioned previously [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200601/primarysources] notes as an aside that Catholics are likelier to attend mass if they live in a heavily Catholic neighborhood, and that such neighborhoods have better economic and social indicators, including higher income and education levels and lower

Taking Revenge on Marx

> Pogroms and purges of Jews are a thing of the past in Russia, but as women scrubbed the bloodstained floors of Moscow's Chabad Bronnaya synagogue on Thursday, a day after a man burst in and stabbed worshippers, alarm spread over increasingly open anti-Semitism. > Jewish leaders

860 Million?

According to Catholic World News [http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=41869], a report says that 860 million children suffer world-wide. That strikes me as awfully high, but I don't know. How many children are there among the world's 6.5 billion? The

The Deluge

Mitch Albom discusses the small controversy over the Detroit Pistons' swimsuit calendar [http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060115/OPINION02/601150352/1082] . The calendar doesn't have pictures of Ben Wallace in a Speedo, but rather pictures of the Piston dancing team--the Automotion--in

Anti-Abortion Posters Torn Down

Home of the 1960s Free Speech Movement [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Movement]: > Bay Area abortion-rights activists say a Roman Catholic group's advertisements on hundreds of BART trains and in scores of stations -- attacking the Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision and

Catholic Charities Must Fund Contraceptives

A good overview of the NY Court of Appeals decision earlier this week [http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/102/53.0.html] regarding a state law that requires employers' insurance plans to cover prescription contraceptives. Excerpt: > [A] New York appeals court ruled 3-2 in favor of

Sleeping in Shifts

A novel idea to try to resolve the debacle that is the modern prison system: > With space scarce as the U.S. prison population grows, a top Idaho lawmaker is proposing that inmates share beds by sleeping in shifts, a practice sometimes used by the U.S. military. Link