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Posted at 6:55pm on Mar. 1, 2005 Iraqis protesting terror!
By reklov77
According to MyYahoo!, this is hot off the presses. Haven't seen anything on FOXNews.com or CNN, so here's just the brief overview...
More than 2,000 people held the impromptu demonstration on front of the clinic, chanting "No to terrorism!" and "No to Baathism and Wahhabism!"
Everyone loves to say "Thing's will get worse before they get better." I think this is yet another post-election sign that we're firmly in the "getting better" phase now.
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Posted at 6:46am on Jan. 27, 2005 Conservative reading list
By reklov77
I recently finished reading Dinesh D'Souza's Letters to a Young Conservative, and found it to be a pretty good...considering that I'm both young and conservative. At the end of the book, Mr D'Souza includes a "brief" list of books representing "the best that has been thought and said of modern conservative thought." Open thread to the community: Any books you would add/subtract from this list? Ideally, I intend to work my way down the list. Lots of free time. I'm currently 2/3rds of the way through Witness.
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Posted at 10:22am on Jan. 7, 2005 Video Games or Abortion?
By reklov77
Illinois needs to get its priorities straight.
Recently, Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich has been pushing legislation to ban the sale of video games to minors.
"As parents, our first responsibility to our children is to make sure they are safe, and to teach them right from wrong."
"Today, with the advent of so many types of new technology, it is a lot more difficult to know what our children are doing."
For starters, I find it ironic that Blago freely acknowledges that monitoring a child's behavior is the parents' responsibility, then introduces legislation that would remove any parental authority in the matter.
However, I am much more upset that while Blago is crusading against the evil video games, Illinois has no active laws
regarding parental notification or consent for underage abortions. The last attempt, the Parental Notification of Abortion Act of 1995, is currently enjoined by Zbaraz v. Ryan. An earlier law, the Parental Notification of Abortion Act of 1983 was taken all the way to the Supreme Court in the lawsuit Zbaraz v. Hartigan.
Although overall abortion is down 9.3% in Illinois from 2002 to 2003, it's worth mentioning that abortions in the 14 and under age group actually increased during this period.
If Blago is honestly concerned about "what our children are doing," there are obviously some bigger issues that need to be
addressed than what video games they're playing.
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