The Iowa Independent reports:
Steve Deace, who hosts a drive-time show on WHO-AM, said society helped create Scott Roeder, the man in custody for the killing of Tiller Sunday morning, by refusing to stop abortion by legal methods.
“Maybe the fact that we have a
The Colorado Independent has a reaction to the murder of abortion doctor George Tiller, from one of the only other doctors who performs late-term abortions in the United States.
One of the things that most infuriates conservative commentators like Michelle Malkin and Stuart Taylor about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is that in delivering a 2002 speech at UC-Berkeley, the judge said that “our experiences as women and people of color affect our decisions” and that “I More…
Noting that most of the criticism from the right of Supreme Court Justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor has completely ignored her long written record as a court of appeals judge, SCOTUSblog offers a detailed analysis of “an obviously serious candidate to serve on the Supreme Court.”
In language that may or not have been cleverly chosen, Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the newest member of the Democratic party, told reporters moments ago that he remains opposed to Dawn Johnsen, the Obama administration’s pick to head the Office of Legal Counsel.
Can we take that to mean More…
Here’s what Afghan President Hamid Karzai told Fareed Zakaria about the disgusting Afghan marital rape law:
“Now I have instructed, in consultation with clergy of the country, that the law be revised and any article that is not in keeping with the Afghan constitution and Islamic Sharia must
That Afghanistan law essentially robbing women of anything resembling autonomy over their own bodies is worse than I thought: it’s charmingly focused on the Shiite minority. If ever there’s a benchmark for U.S. aid crying out to be written, here it is. This is a U.S. client state, More…
Speaking at the U.N. conference on Afghanistan today at The Hague, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said:
The status of Afghanistan’s army, the lives of women and girls, the country’s education and health systems are far better today than they were in 2001. So if all of us
Amanda Terkel of ThinkProgress has a blow-by-blow timeline of an ambush by Jesse Watters, a producer for Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor” who asks accusatory, leading questions of people Bill O’Reilly doesn’t like. Terkel lives in Washington, but Watters stalked her on a vacation jaunt into Virginia. More…
As expected, the Senate confirmed Elena Kagan as solicitor general Thursday. Kagan, the first woman to hold the post, was confirmed by a vote of 61-31.
As I reported earlier, she had some vehement Republican critics. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) made a point of noting, in More…
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