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Wednesday, July 18, 2007
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Andrew Sullivan is pointing to a YouTube asking about the use of religion to deny gay rights.
"2008 pres"
7:11:33 PM 
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The Right's Field: "In many ways, the members of NICHE would probably just want to be left alone. But they've discovered that closing themselves off from the world is not likely to have the effects they might hope for. NICHE is the Network of Iowa Christian Home Educators, which acts as a clearinghouse for all things Christian home-school-related. The members, if not the organization itself, also act as a force in monitoring and shaping state and federal legislation concerning home education and intend to influence the outcome of the Iowa caucuses through their staunch support of a socially conservative candidate."
"2008 pres"
6:51:59 PM
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Yahoo! News: "The U.S. command said Wednesday the highest-ranking Iraqi in the leadership of al-Qaida in Iraq has been arrested, adding that information from him indicates the group's foreign-based leadership wields considerable influence over the Iraqi chapter. Khaled Abdul-Fattah Dawoud Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, also known as Abu Shahid, was captured in Mosul on July 4, said Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner, a military spokesman."
Thanks to The Moderate Voice for the link.
Mt. Virtus: "...you get the picture that our new strategy in Iraq is making a serious dent into our savage foe. So why of all times lose one's nerve on Iraq now? Give the surge a chance, and let's assess the situation in September."
"2008 pres"
6:14:50 PM
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David Schraub (via The Moderate Voice): " Obama's Judiciary: The qualities he says he's looking for are not what you'd expect from a guy whose been very keen in presenting himself as moderate, mainstream, and not wedded to the interested of the disadvantaged. I approve, though."
The makeup of the U.S. Supreme court post January 20, 2009 is one of the issues that should shape the 2008 election.
"2008 pres"
6:06:47 PM
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Patrick Ruffini: " Ron Paul will place second at Ames. You heard it here first." Thanks to Andrew Sullivan for the link.
Talking Points Memo: "Hillary campaign officially responds to Elizabeth Edwards' criticism of her record on women's-rights issues."
Jason Bane (via 5280): "I've written before about why fundraising numbers matter in more ways than the obvious, and it has to do with perception. Much of politics is about perception, because you have to look like a winner before you can be a winner. Candidates need money in order to get their message out next summer, but the amount of money they raise in the early going helps indicate how much support they have already."
Pollster.com:
A new CNN/WMUR statewide survey of likely voters in New Hampshire (conducted 7/9 through 7/17 by the University of New Hampshire) finds:
* Among 307 Republicans, former Gov. Mitt Romney (at 33%) leads former Mayor Rudy Giuliani (18%), former Sen. Fred Thompson (13%), and Sen. John McCain (12%) in a statewide primary.
* 71% of Republicans are "still trying to decide" who they will vote for in the New Hampshire primary; 22% are "leaning toward someone," 7% have "definitely decided."
* Among 333 Democrats, Sen. Hillary Clinton (at 36%) leads Sen. Barack Obama (27%), Gov. Bill Richardson (11%), and former Sen. John Edwards (9%) in a statewide primary.
* 64% of Democrats are still trying to decide who they will vote for in the New Hampshire primary; 26% are leaning toward someone, 10% have definitely decided.
John Heilemann (via New York Magazine): "Though it's not impossible to conjure a narrative in which McCain wins the nomination, doing so requires half a bottle of Maker's Mark, followed by a nitrous-oxide chaser."
"2008 pres"
5:56:14 PM
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From The Denver Business Journal: "Falling gasoline prices contributed to the 0.2 percent drop in the Consumer Price Index for the western United States from May to June, according to figures released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Labor. But the western index was up 3 percent from June of 2006. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the West hit 212.680 last month. That means a market basket of goods and services that cost $100 from 1982 to 1984 cost $212.58 in June."
"2008 pres"
5:51:07 PM
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Here's an article about a proposal to put an abortion ban on the November ballot, from The Denver Post. The write:
An anti-abortion group is working on an initiative that it hopes will eventually ban all abortions in Colorado. The ballot, planned for November 2008, will ask voters to define human life as beginning at conception. "If the state or the federal government ever defined when life began, then the rights of the unborn would be superior to the woman's right to have an abortion," said Mark Meuser of Colorado Equal Rights, who is pushing the constitutional amendment. "If personhood was ever defined, then the case for Roe would collapse." A title board hearing to approve the measure's ballot language is scheduled for today. After a one-week window to appeal the language, the group will begin gathering the 76,000 signatures needed to place it on the ballot, Meuser said...
"The proponents of this initiative have certainly been clear that their goal in Colorado is to make abortion illegal," said Lizzy Annison, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains. "We believe that a woman's right to control her own fertility is a fundamental human right." In Roe vs. Wade, the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, Justice Harry Blackmun wrote that if "personhood is established, the appellant's case, of course, collapses, for the fetus' right to life would then be guaranteed."[...]
Focus on the Family officials said they will support the initiative if it makes it to the ballot. There are similar measures taking shape in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi, said Carrie Gordon Earll, a spokeswoman with the Colorado Springs- based group. She added that amending the U.S. Constitution has been a goal of the pro-choice movement since 1973. "The state efforts are just a different tactic to that strategy," she said. "It's a fresh and novel approach to the issue."
"denver n2007"
7:05:53 AM
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