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Miers

Posted: Thursday, October 27th, 2005 @ 11:27 am in Politics, General | Comments Off

This morning I read notes for an old speech that Miers had given in 1993. Captain Ed said this speech was the straw that pushed him off the fence, toward opposing her nomination. Certainly it is poorly written, even for something that was to be delivered as a speech. I had to […]

Poverty and religion

Posted: Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005 @ 9:08 am in Politics, Christianity, General | Comments Off

I found this post from The Quietist through MaxedOutMama; well worth reading.

Laughing at NOW

Posted: Friday, July 22nd, 2005 @ 4:15 pm in Politics, Feminism, General | Comments Off

Here are the Resolutions from the latest NOW National Conference, and I am succumbing to the temptation to ridicule them.
WHEREAS, throughout its history, the National Organization for Women (NOW) has used both traditional and nontraditional means to achieve full equality for women, including women’s access to safe, legal abortion and birth control….
Access to abortion doesn’t […]

Here we go again…

Posted: Tuesday, July 19th, 2005 @ 9:11 am in Politics, Feminism, General | Comments Off

… with the Minnesota Women’s Press columnists. She does have one thing right: we need to spend more on education; her ignorance of economics is appalling. Subsidized health care and child care and “living wages” and so on for everyone is a nice idea, but how are you going to pay for […]

Yay

Posted: Friday, July 15th, 2005 @ 7:27 pm in Foofy, Politics, General | Comments Off

My Peace through Superior Firepower pin came today! Awesome!

Bush

Posted: Wednesday, May 4th, 2005 @ 5:10 pm in Politics, General | Comments Off

Keir wants to know why I voted for Bush.
I voted for Bush partly as a vote of confidence. He’s been a far better leader since the Sept. 11 attacks than anyone thought he could be. He has shown a lot of courage in pursuing what is right, rather than what is popular (both […]