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POPSThe Truth In Pornography The more I think about it, the more I realize that the objection is not to it's existence, but to the existence of some of it's direct and implied messages that contradict conventional (and in my humble opinion, dangerous and destructive) moralisms.
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POPSHuckabee Soft-headed on Crime The more you look behind the smiling, nice guy, small town preacher facade, the more you realize you have met a plot device from a Steven King novel...
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POPSThat Inexplicable Clinton Magic I have never quite understood what it is about Bill Clinton that provokes hatred to such a degree that even otherwise fairly sensible people are perfectly willing to commit obvious and outrageous perversions of justice in what generally turned out to be futile efforts to discredit him. It turns out that this perverse "magic" predates his presidency and, of course, Ken Starr.
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POPSI'm not "Pro-Choice." I'm Anti-Busybody It's far more accurate to term militant anti-abortion activists as anti-choice than pro-life. Why? Because their own reasoning and rhetoric, as well as causes they support as well, show a complete disregard for human life that exists without adhering to their punitive moralistic code - and are entirely willing to call for the death (by stoning) of those who violate it. I'm not "for" abortion. I'm not "for" stomach-stapling, either. But in either case, I believe circumstances dictate cases.
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POPSAnd you didn't hear about this from the MSM either...
Sanchez's attitude was: "The women asked to be here, so now let them take what comes with the territory," Karpinski quoted him as saying. Karpinski told me that Sanchez, who was her boss, was very sensitive to the political ramifications of everything he did. She thinks it likely that when the information about the cause of these women's deaths was passed to the Pentagon, Donald Rumsfeld ordered that the details not be released. "That's how Rumsfeld works," she said. "It was out of control," Karpinski told a group of students at Thomas Jefferson School of Law last October. There was an 800 number women could use to report sexual assaults. But no one had a phone, she added. And no one answered that number, which was based in the United States. Any woman who successfully connected to it would get a recording. Even after more than 83 incidents were reported during a six-month period in Iraq and Kuwait, the 24-hour rape hot line was still answered by a machine that told callers