Two great abortion related articles
Mon Dec 12, 2005 at 01:30:26 PM PDT
Salon's
Broadsheet (subscription/ad view required) often does great articles on abortion like
this and
this. It's become one of my regular reads because it's so refreshing. (On all sorts of topics, not just abortion. It's just so rare that I hear level headed sense on this issue.) And really, what a great name.
Today Rebecca Traister (one of the Broadsheet ladies) wrote two abortion related articles back to back.
See them on the flip.
Mark Dayton on Rice as SOS
Tue Jan 25, 2005 at 01:43:36 PM PDT
This is a pasted entry from an email. I looked on the web and didn't find it so I'm posting it here. If I find a link (or someone else does) I'll update the diary and just post the cool parts.
The email I got was in all caps so I adjusted it. I tried to re-cap titles and such but I might have missed a few. Capitalization errors are mine.
[Update] lesliet posted another diary on this same thing. Recommend her diary
Working to combine as soon as I figure this all out.
Thank you, Mr. President. I rise today to also oppose the nomination of national security adviser Condoleezza Rice for Secretary of State.
I do so, because she misled me about the situation in Iraq before and after the congressional resolution in October, 2002, authorizing that war, a resolution that I opposed. She misled other members of congress about the situation in Iraq, members who have said that they would have opposed that resolution if they had been told the truth. And she misled the people of Minnesota and Americans everywhere about the situation in Iraq, before and after that war began.
The 3 new pillars of the Democratic Party
Fri Jan 21, 2005 at 02:43:48 PM PDT
Well, they should be.
As I see it, the Democratic Party doesn't have a platform. It has a steaming pile of policy. We do not articulate why we support what we do, why we do what we do. There isn't a cohesive underlying message. This is not to say that we don't have ideals or a core set of moral values. It is to say that we have not distilled our message to a few basic principles and thus we cannot and do not articulate it.
When I look at the policies and agenda of the Democratic Party, I see three ideals that we uphold: liberty, responsibility, and justice.
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Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) practices sensorship
Fri Dec 10, 2004 at 10:49:04 AM PDT
Apparently
this was originally in the LA Times, but I found this most disturbing. This seems to be old news, but it's the first I found out about it so here goes. :)
In an apparent reversal of decades of U.S. practice, recent federal Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) regulations bar U.S. companies from publishing works by dissident writers in countries under sanction unless they first obtain U.S. government approval.
"It strikes me as very odd," said Douglas Kmiec, a constitutional law professor at Pepperdine University and constitutional legal counsel to former Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush.
"I think the government has an uphill struggle to justify this constitutionally."
Our non-profits are dieing.
Thu Dec 09, 2004 at 12:26:02 PM PDT
Yesterday I had lunch with a very good friend of mine who is the Director/founder of Missing Children Minnesota. What she told me concerned me very much. Our non-profits are dying.
There are many factors contributing to this.
