Chomsky and Zinn on Patriotism in America
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
An interview with two of America's leading dissidents on how the highest act of patriotism would be opposing the war in Iraq and calling for a withdrawal of our troops.
Here's a hot-button issue, just for the fun of it. *snicker* I can understand reasoning that you should probably not have a "partial-birth" abortion UNLESS the mother's life depends on it. Otherwise, I think it's a no-no. Not sure that the government should have ANY say though, it's a medical decision, not a political one.
Rambleman
Supreme Court Upholds Late Abortion Ban: Right-wing Judicial Activism Run Amok
Last year, in defending his decision to vote for the confirmation of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, Senator Bill Nelson (D-NE) said that it was based, in part, on Alito's "pledge that he would not bring a political agenda to the court."
Today, Nelson and the 18 other Democratic Senators who voted against the attempted filibuster of Alito reaped what they sowed. The new court -- the first in American history made up of a majority of conservative Catholics -- upheld the 2003 ban on so-called "partial birth" abortions, a made-up term that's become a hot-button issue for social conservatives, but is largely based on junk science and flies in the face of medical "best practices." It will go down as a text-book case of right-wing judicial activism, with the justices essentially overruling the medical community.
Global Warming Hits Southwest
Mike Davis, TheNation.com
EnviroHealth: The Arctic is not the only theater of unequivocal climate change and polar bears aren't the only heralds of a new age of chaos. Global warming is already affecting the U.S.
Human Trafficking in Mississippi
Lindsay Beyerstein, Larisa Alexandrovna, Raw Story
Indian guest workers are paid up to $18.50 an hour, but are crammed into windowless trailers and threatened with deportation if they report abuses.
U.S. Attorneys and Voting Rights: The New Watergate
Marjorie Cohn, AlterNet
Rights and Liberties: The attorney scandal is a cover-up revolving around efforts by the Bush administration to disenfranchise African-American voters in communities where the vote is close.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry's Dangerous Database
Jake Bernstein, Texas Observer
Rights and Liberties: Texas is amassing an unprecedented amount of information on its citizens.
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well I think as a woman that if you wish to have an abortion that you should have one. the goverment should not tell us what to do with our own body. just like if a 50 year old lady wishes to have a baby hell let her its her body and her life.
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