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Friday, June 15, 2007
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The Right's Field: "While campaigning in South Carolina, Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) spoke out against abortion -- for rape victims. 'Rape is terrible. Rape is awful. Is it made any better by killing an innocent child? Does it solve the problem for the woman that's been raped? We need to protect innocent life. Period.'"
"2008 pres"
7:40:04 AM 
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From ABCNews, "Within two months of his epiphany on this issue [Abortion], Romney appointed to a judgeship a Democrat who was an avowed supporter of abortion rights. In May 2005, Romney also declared his support for a House bill lifting President Bush's ban on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research -- a bill he now said he opposes."
eyeon08.com: "In light of the Kansas City National Right to Life convention, Sam Brownback has dropped the hammer on Mitt Romney. Brownback's political director says, "One would think that Mitt Romney is in training for an Olympic gold medal in verbal gymnastics, as his various political contortions on abortion are stunning in their timing and flexibility."
Talking Points Memo: "Rudy Giuliani takes indirect swipe at Bush, says we're lacking 'strong, bold, aggressive leadership.'"
"2008 pres"
7:17:03 AM
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Captain's Quarters: "It's baaaa-aaaaack. The immigration bill will return to the Senate floor next week after a a flurry of deals between Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, and the White House reinvigorated the compromise. Each party will get eleven amendments, and the White House has agreed to spend over $4 billion immediately to secure the border."
"2008 pres"
7:01:28 AM
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Andrew Sullivan: "The genius of America, it seems to me, is its capacity to include people of radically different worldviews within a loose, flexible and constantly adjusting constitutional system. Given the huge differences between, say, a born-again evangelical in Georgia and a pot-smoking post-boomer in Seattle, no single cultural strait-jacket can ever hold America together."
Sam Schulman (via Commentary Magazine), in a review of Christopher Hitchins new book, God is not Great, writes:
To our arsenal of defenses against future terrorist attacks, today's crop of professional atheists urge us to add a mistrust of religion in general, in whatever guise. Thus, according to books by Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion), Daniel C. Dennett (Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon), and Sam Harris (Letter to a Christian Nation), responsibility for an event like 9/11 ought not to be assigned solely or at all to the small group of radical Islamists who perpetrated the attacks, much less to Islam as a whole, but rather ought to be shared among all religions, including the very moderate kinds of religion that exist in the United States and Europe.
"2008 pres"
6:58:56 AM
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Here's an inside look at several of the candidates running for President, from the San Diego Union-Tribune.
"2008 pres"
6:24:21 AM
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