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Now that the insulting question of whether Sonia Sotomayor is just
another Harriet Miers has subsided, a new one arises: Does Barack
Obama's nominee have more in common with conservative justice Sam
Alito? Liberals opposed Alito far more strenuously than they did
current Chief Justice and George W. Bush nominee John Roberts. An
Italian from working-class roots who also attended Princeton, Alito
wields the same, "up from the bootstraps" personal history as
Sotomayor. And—much like the Obama administration's emphasis on its
nominee's "wisdom accumulated from an inspiring life's journey"—the Bush White House stressed... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Sunday night was when I first found out abortionist Dr. George Tiller had been murdered. But unlike Elizabeth Weil, I knew exactly who he was. I grew up in a conservative Christian family: loving my dad's lapel pin of tiny baby feet, dropping change in baby bottles to raise money for crisis pregnancy centers, and keeping up with relevant legislation. My family and I are probably a pretty good representation of 99 percent of the pro-life movement—people who wouldn't sabotage a clinic or use violence to stop abortion, but do our best with community involvement, prayer, and our votes. So I knew who Tiller was. I've prayed for him before.
I was following the lead-up to his trial for 19 misdemeanor counts all through March. Updates hit my inbox... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com.)
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For the sixth consecutive week, Kate Gosselin’s on the cover of Us Weekly. “Mommy You Are Mean” screams the headline, while her husband Jon declares, “Enough is Enough” on the cover of People. In Touch and Star are selling the Gosselins as well. Only the Enquirer has chosen an old standard for its cover, Brangelina, and even the most famous couple in the world had to share the front page, with, you guessed it, Jon Gosselin.
Up until a few months ago, chances were good-to-great that if you picked up a tabloid one of the following subjects would appear on the cover: Brangelina, Jennifer Aniston, TomKat or Britney Spears. But recently, the attractive, famous folk who have dominated gossip for years and years (even when, as with Aniston, the relevant story happened eons ago), have suddenly, ignominiously been shoved to the side by a rag-tag crew whose members include the Gosselins, Octomom, Susan Boyle and, to a certain extent, Michelle Obama... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Judith Leavitt has written a history of fatherhood, specifically about the evolution of male participation in the process of giving birth. In a review of the book in the Wall Street Journal, Jonathan Last reports the less-than-shocking news: The 20th century saw men becoming more and more involved with the process of pregnancy, and less and less commonly banished from the premises during the birth itself. This has culminated, Last explains, in “all manner of idiocy,” from fathers who videotape the birth to fathers cutting the umbilical cord... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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"It's more fun to be an opposition bomb-thrower than a palace guard" was Dana Milbank's analysis in today's Washington Post noting the lackluster turnout of the former Take Back America crowd at the America's Future Now conference this week in D.C. Attendance at the gathering of liberal interest groups dropped to 1,500 from 2,500 last year, during the presidential campaign. The movement advocacy groups and think tanks may suffer a bit from brain drain as many organizers of progressive causes have migrated to the administration... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Without question, this was the first serious foreign policy speech Obama has made as president. In giving it, he broke a number of taboos and slid over several potential minefields, reaffirming America's commitment to Israel as well as to Palestinian statehood in front of an Egyptian audience, and going out of his way to make statements about democracy, womens' rights, and religious freedom. If the speech were the dawn of a new age of public diplomacy then I'm all in favor.
Two things worried me about it, however... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Yesterday, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham met with Sonia Sotomayor and decided she was not, after all that, a racist. "There is no evidence of that," he said soberly. What did he expect? That Sotomayor would look haughtily down at him and say, "Old white man, you can't cook marcilla for sh--!".., (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Recently, British film censors cut a movie scene where a woman appeared to ejaculate, because they believed the fluid must be urine, and British obscenity laws forbid urinating on fellow actors. But female ejaculation is a well documented medical phenomenon, according to this history of female ejaculation in the New Scientist, and only resisted by the medical establishment because, well, women can't be equal in everything... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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So Barack Obama's historic speech in Cairo is already getting rave reviews. It was, indeed, vintage Obama (if that's not an oxymoron), using his biography as a point of entrance and connection, eschewing what he views as old, false dichotomies, and stressing a pragmatic, hopeful way forward... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Forbes.com has released its "Celebrity 100" list of the world's most powerful celebrities and the top four slots are held by women: #1: Angelina Jolie, #2: Oprah Winfrey, #3: Madonna, and #4: Beyonce Knowles. Half of the top ten are women, although they make up only a quarter of the top 25... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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An interesting new study reported on by Science Daily suggests that evolutionary psychologists might be wrong to speculate that women are choosier than men about mates... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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