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Personal, hard decisions

“The Elf”:http://www.elfnoodles.com/ is frequently exhausted, but otherwise fine. She’s even “posted herself about getting pregnant”:http://www.elfnoodles.com/wordpress/?p=248. We’re keeping our fingers crossed. As far as we know, everything is fine. But we’re anxious nonetheless.
It’s partly the fault of all the pregnancy books which do such a great job of telling you how many ways things can go wrong. [...]

War on Sex gets mainstream notice

The _New York Times_ has noticed that the anti-choice crowd has become more and more the “anti-sex crowd”:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/magazine/07contraception.html.
bq. Many Christians who are active in the evolving anti-birth-control arena state frankly that what links their efforts is a religious commitment to altering the moral landscape of the country. In particular, and not to put too fine [...]

Switchgrass

All us liberals just have an _unreasoning_ hatred of George W. Bush. It couldn’t have anything to do with how he says one thing but does the opposite all the damn time.
The talk:
bq. We will increase our research in better batteries for hybrid and electric cars, and in pollution-free cars that run on hydrogen. We’ll also [...]

State of the Union Today

I see that Bush has already had to back off his SOTU promise to replace 75% of Middle-Eastern oil imports with renewable resources.
bq. One day after President Bush vowed to reduce America’s dependence on Middle East oil by cutting imports from there 75 percent by 2025, his energy secretary and national economic adviser said Wednesday [...]

The Plame Game

I’ve heard a number of liberals insist that the Valerie Plame issue is not particularly important and we should be focusing on the “real issues.” I resent this for a number of reasons, chief among them being that I have a number of friends with security clearances who would have faced significant jail time for [...]

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