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Abortion and Down Syndrome: The Other Side
As a rebuttal to the article a few weeks ago by a mother of a Down syndrome child speaking out against aborting babies based on genetic testing, here is an article written by a woman justifying her decision to get an abortion after testing positive for having a baby with Down syndrome. Her basic [...]
Torture and the Golden Rule
As I was reading this article about the legal aspects of US interrogation tactics (the whole article is worth reading), I was struck by this sentence:
The basic Army doctrine on interrogations is the Golden Rule: Before using a tactic, interrogators should ask themselves whether they think it would be permitted if used by an enemy [...]
Doesn’t Testicular Virility Account for Anything These Days?
SurveyUSA has a new poll with the approval ratings for all 50 governors (find your governor…curse or cheer them…fun for the whole family). All the way down at number 44 is Illinois’ own Rod “Testicular Virility” Blagojevich with 38% approval and 57% disapproval.
It’s really quite amazing how unpopular he is considering that (1) he [...]
Thanksgiving Vacation Recap
This year we went to South Carolina for the Thanksgiving holiday. We flew in on Friday (Nov. 18) about 3 pm. We carefully chose our flight times this year so as not to miss the Michigan-Ohio State football game. Two years ago, we were flying during the game and I had to [...]
Tax Cut Costs to the Wealthy
This article (by a co-author of Ben Bernanke, the soon-to-be chairman of the Federal Reserve) looks at an interesting perspective on some of the costs to the wealthy that come as a result of Bush’s tax cuts.
So, although the recent tax cuts have enabled the wealthy to buy more and bigger things, these purchases appear [...]
The Spread for the Aggies Against the Longhorns
27.5 points for the Aggies at home?! I’d actually be tempted to take the Aggies with those odds. Has the Coach Fran era gone horribly awry in College Station or are there some underclassmen and recruits brewing that are going to restore them to past glory? Any Aggies out there to comment? [...]
Keeping Raw Meat Away From Lions
Fitzgibbons rejected earlier plea deals that included jail time and planned on using the insanity defense at trial.
In July he told reporters “to place an attractive young woman in that kind of hell-hole (prison) is like putting a piece of raw meat in with the lions” and that he wasn’t sure “she would survive.”
Those are [...]
If You’re Looking for a Blogging Service…
Wordpress went live with their web-based blogging service, Wordpress.com, yesterday (well, it was invitation only before that). If you’re looking to start blogging and/or you’re not too keen on Blogger, Livejournal, or Xanga, you might check Wordpress.com out to see what they have to offer. We use an installed version of the Wordpress [...]
The BCS Picture As I See It
So, Saturday seems to have cleared a lot up. We know that the the following three conferences stand no chance of getting at-large bids:
The Big East. If West Virginia trips, there’s a plethora of more qualified two loss teams.
The ACC. Miami’s loss took care of this…there’s better two loss teams than the [...]
Is Intelligent Design Science?
Conservative writer Charles Krauthammer has a well-written article that enumerates some of the troubles with considering intelligent design to be “science”. George Will, another prominent conservative writer, has also published a couple of articles recently opposing intelligent design.
I feel obliged to point out what would otherwise be superfluous: that the two greatest scientists in [...]
Hang On, Sloopy!
In Jim Tressel, the Buckeyes seem to have finally found a coach that can pwn the Wolverines the way that Carr and Moeller pwned John Cooper.
Gonzalez seems to have got his mojo back in this game…that was a heck of a catch towards the end of the game.
Best line by the commentators was when [...]
A Bipartisan Flat Tax Compromise?
Reading the article about a crappy Democratic tax plan which mirrors the crappy Republican tax plan got me thinking how about a compromise along these lines:
Remove all tax deductions and credits.
One flat tax rate with an annual rebate for all households on the first X dollars of of taxed income. X is automatically adjusted [...]
College Football Lines
Here’s the lines for some of my teams this weekend:
Ohio St. at Michigan: OSU by 3. I’d definitely take the Buckeyes with that spread.
Clemson at USC: Clemson by 2.5. It’s close…Tommy has kind of pwned the Gamecocks…but I have a feeling Spurrier wins this one.
Northwestern at UIUC: Northwestern by 14.5. Heck, I’d [...]
Bruce Schneier on the Sony Rootkit
In case you haven’t been following the Sony Rootkit fiasco, where they basically unknowingly put malware on users’ computers when they listened to a music CD, here’s a good, concise summary by security guru Bruce Schneier. He hits on some interesting points about how the big security firms (e.g., McAfee, Symantec) appear to have [...]
The Pro-Life Morning After Pill
Here’s an interesting article by a pro-lifer examining the science behind the morning after pill.
As a longtime pro-lifer, I think anti-abortion groups had solid grounds to oppose the morning-after pill when its function was unclear — as I did. But given what we now know, it’s a grave mistake to keep opposing it. In [...]
Define “Spending Cut”
George Will gets an “Amen!” from the congregation for his op-ed today:
Conservatives have won seven of 10 presidential elections, yet government waxes, with per household federal spending more than $22,000 per year, the highest in inflation-adjusted terms since World War II. Federal spending — including a 100 percent increase in education spending since 2001 — [...]
Parent of the Year Award Nominee
This kind of rocks:
Tasha Henderson got tired of her 14-year-old daughter’s poor grades, her chronic lateness to class and her talking back to her teachers, so she decided to teach the girl a lesson.
How Liberal is Bush When it Comes to Spending?
Here’s about as close as you can get to a direct comparison.
Al Gore:
During the 2000 presidential campaign, the conservative media jumped all over Al Gore for proposing a drug benefit with an estimated price tag of $253 billion over 10 years. “Mr. Gore seems unconcerned about costs,” opined The Wall Street Journal.
George W. Bush:
The White [...]
America’s Most Dangerous Special Interest Group
Ever cringe when you see a once successful American company crippled to bankruptcy due in part to agreeing to infeasible union demands for benefits? Meet the union that shows every sign of doing this to America as a whole.
But I won’t be joining, because AARP has become America’s most dangerous lobby. If left unchecked, [...]
From the “Interesting Defense Strategies” Department
If it wasn’t so depressing, North Korea’s government would make a heck of a reality show. Kim Jong Il’s son has been ridiculed about his ability to lead the country.
Jong Il’s 24-year-old heir Kim Jong Chol has reportedly been dismissed by his father as “too girlish” to rule the country…
So, in need of street [...]