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U.S. Will Give Up Control of Internet?

According to The Guardian, we'll have to: > A number of countries represented in Geneva, including Brazil, China, Cuba, Iran and several African states, insisted the US give up control, but it refused. The meeting "was going nowhere", Hendon says, and so the EU took a

Relativism = Every Nut Deserves Respec. Episode 231,311

> A man who is fighting to get the words "under God" out of the Pledge of Allegiance was back in federal court Wednesday, making some surprising comments about the case. > Although the hearing was a procedural matter with no key rulings, Michael Newdow said that if

Wait Till the ACLU Hears

ACLU: "We hope President Bush doesn't plan to infringe freedoms in the name of public health. If we let a pandemic flu destroy civil liberties, the flu has beaten the United States." > President George W. Bush said Tuesday that he was working to prepare the

A Katrina Wrap Up?

I think most of us have had enough of Katrina, but we shouldn't. There are lessons to be learned, and not about levee management. It's about people, sapping their spirit, creating an underclass that has been deprived of a basic moral upbringing. Kara Hopkins tells the

A Second Conservation Message?

The Bush administration is asking Americans to conserve gas. This is twice now. Wow. > With U.S. heating bills expected to hit record highs this winter, the Bush administration on Monday launched a conservation campaign featuring a cartoon mascot "Energy Hog" . . . > Energy Secretary Sam Bodman and

No Back-Alley Abortions

Interesting piece at NYT this morning [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/02/weekinreview/02leland.html] about a new pill that would make back-alley abortions highly unlikely, if Roe were to be reversed and states started outlawing abortions again. This is good information to have when a pro-choicer refers to

Acceptable Racism?

> A doctor has offered to perform free abortions on hurricane evacuees, saying it may be too dangerous for them to wait until they return home. Link [http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9514379/].

Dutch Expand Baby Killing

Good luck to the ugly Dutch babies: > The Dutch government intends to expand its current euthanasia policy, setting guidelines for when doctors may end the lives of terminally ill newborns with the parents' consent. > A letter outlining the new directives will be submitted to parliament for discussion

Internet Stays with U.S.

Chalk one up for officials that don't kowtow to the UN: > A senior U.S. official rejected calls on Thursday for a U.N. body to take over control of the main computers that direct traffic on the Internet, reiterating U.S. intentions to keep its historical

St. Casey?

I've said it before: I'm not a big fan of the Iraqi War, but I don't care for Cindy Sheehan's antics or attitude. "Narcissistic [http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/09/26/D8CS3A900.html]," Mark Shea has speculated, and I