Politics

It's not just for Americans anymore [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N03375226.htm]. Call it, "The International Civil Liberties Union," or "Doing Whatever We Can to Further Our Vision of How the Cosmos Oughtta Be and Disguising It under the First Amendment." (In

Like Amy Welborn [http://amywelborn.typepad.com/openbook/2005/12/for_my_health.html], I tend to stay away from Andrew Sullivan. Car wrecks are interesting, but when you see them every day, day-in-day-out, it gets tiresome. Sullivan sees everything through pink sunglasses, the type of guy who responds, "

> As a Justice Department lawyer in the Reagan administration, Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. helped devise a legal strategy to persuade the high court to restrict and eventually overturn Roe v. Wade , the historic decision legalizing abortion. WaPo Link [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/

Article about the "Friend or Foe" legal campaign by Christian lawyers to protect the religious implications of the season [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/11/20/MNGVDFRH081.DTL] . I'm not entirely comfortable with the campaign, but I tend to sympathize

Gamblers like to smoke? Who woulda thunk: Atlantic City casinos warned yesterday that a smoking ban could spell economic doom for them. [http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/57696.htm]

Michael Kinsley at WaPo mentions some uncomfortable political facts about abortion [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/17/AR2005111701452.html] : > The last thing in the world that Republican strategists want is repeal of Roe . If abortion becomes a legislative issue again, all those pro-choice women and

Who's shocked? Four state legislators in Massachusetts have introduced a bill that would soften the crime of bestiality. Link [http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47416]. Thing is, no doubt Massachusetts has its own pressing problems to deal with, but sexual liberation is still in

> Clarendon Presbyterian Church Pastor David Ensign has an alternative air about him. He wears an earring and has been known to pick up his guitar to play a few hymns during Sunday services. > But he surprised even some of Arlington's die-hard progressives Nov. 3 at the

It would appear it's now open season on Alito. How fitting, at least for those of us in Michigan: Today is the opening day of the 2005 deer season, a de facto holiday in the mitten state. From Washington Times: [http://www.washtimes.com/national/20051115-123456-9700r.htm] >

> Planned Parenthood has a new marketing strategy for their abortion services: the cross of Jesus. According to a report in the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader [http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/13138780.htm?source=rss&channel=kentucky_news] , Planned Parenthood's national chaplain, United Methodist Ignacio Castuera