School Board Approves Birth Control Prescriptions at Maine Middle School
Posted on October 17, 2007 - Filed Under ACLU, Abortion, Child Exploitation, News | 10 Comments
We mentioned before that it was being considered, and now it has been approved.
Pupils at a city middle school will be able to get birth control pills and patches at their student health center after the local school board approved the proposal Wednesday evening.
The plan, offered by city health officials, makes King Middle School the [...]
Just a thought
Posted on October 17, 2007 - Filed Under ACLU, Global Warming | 1 Comment
Al Gore won a political prize for an alleged work of science. That rather speaks for itself, doesn’t it?
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Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize First Ever Given That Has Nothing To Do With Peace
Posted on October 17, 2007 - Filed Under Global Warming, News, Politics As Usual, UN | 3 Comments
Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been awarded the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize for 2007. According to the Nobel Foundation, the award was given “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to [...]
Read More..>>ACLU Trying to Ban Bowing Head During Prayer
Posted on October 17, 2007 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, ACLU, Activist Judges, Church And State, News | 4 Comments
I’m a little late on this one, but gotta post on it.
The issue of teachers and coaches praying — or appearing to pray — in front of students is being hashed out in one New Jersey high school, which is trying to ban its football coach from bowing his head and kneeling while his players [...]
Leaning ACLU
Posted on October 17, 2007 - Filed Under ACLU, Humor, News | 6 Comments
HUGE THANKS TO OGRE FOR THIS ONE
Read More..>>Justice Scalia: No Right to Abortion in Constitution
Posted on October 17, 2007 - Filed Under ACLU, Abortion, News, Supreme Court | 9 Comments
He has said it before, but he reconfirms it at a speech at Villanova Law School’s Second Annual John F. Scarpa Conference on Law, Politics & Culture. He speaks quite clearly, and I agree.
He said that notion is not guided by his Catholic views but by his understanding of the Constitution and his perspective as [...]
BBC “Fact-checking”
Posted on October 17, 2007 - Filed Under Global Warming, News | Comments Off
Yesterday, I put up an article by Roger Harrabin, BBC “Environment Analyst”, in which he claimed that Al Gore was “an environmental science graduate”. I raised my eyebrows when I saw that but did not have time to follow it up. The Devil’s Kitchen has however done so and it [...]
Read More..>>Vote to Kill ‘Fairness Doctrine’ Forever Could Come up Today
Posted on October 17, 2007 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, News | 5 Comments
In an effort to kill it forever, Representative Mike Pence (R-Ind.) is attempting to force a vote on the floor of the House today over the future of the so-called “Fairness Doctrine.” Pence already secured passage of the “Free Flow of Information Act” to protect the press and is now launching an effort to nix [...]
Read More..>>Reuters: Dems Love the Kids, GOP Hates Them
Posted on October 17, 2007 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, News | 1 Comment
The SCHIP Federal healthcare program debate is based on quite serious and substantive issues. The GOP doesn’t want this Federal welfare program to be expanded to include families that can easily afford their own health insurance (families earning $83,000 a year for instance) and Democrats want to expand this program to include far more families [...]
Read More..>>The Randi Rhodes ‘Mugging’: What Have We Learned?
Posted on October 17, 2007 - Filed Under News, Politics As Usual | 1 Comment
“What Have We Learned?”
This is a question my son likes to ask after seeing the universe reward stupidity in the usual way. For example, he said it after a particularly gruesome episode of “Scarred” featuring a skateboarder who slit his scrotum open on a metal spur while trying to grind down a railing.
Sadly, in the [...]
