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Wednesday, August 10, 2011, 10:00 AM

Contraception and Healthcare Rights
Public Discourse, Christopher O. Tollefsen

Mormonism and Mitt Romney’s “Weirdness”
New York Times, Ross Douthat

New York City Will Mandate Sex Education
New York Times, Fernanda Santos

Life in Prison For Polygamist Leader Jeffs
Associated Press

John Lennon and the Jews
The Jewish Daily Forward, Hillel Halkin

We’re Arguing Definitions, Not Rights
Evangel, Amy Hall

5 Comments

    Brian
    August 10th, 2011 | 10:22 am

    So Mitt Romney is “weird”, huh? Well, his insistence on defending Romneycare when the GOP base hates Obamacare with the same sort of passion that the Dem base hated the Iraq War IS quite strange.

    Obama’s got quite a range of campaign strategies depending on his GOP opponent next year:

    For Romney: Don’t vote for that weird and crazy Mormon!

    For Bachmann: Don’t vote for that weird and crazy !

    For Perry: Don’t vote for that weird and crazy Texan!

    Brian
    August 10th, 2011 | 10:51 am

    Note: Hmm. My anti-Bachmann slogan got truncated somehow during posting. Imagine that after “crazy” comes your favorite denigrating term for women, such as any of those regularly used by the left to refer to a certain former governor of Alaska…

    Ray Ingles
    August 10th, 2011 | 12:44 pm

    Brian –

    …such as any of those regularly used by the left to refer to a certain former governor of Alaska…

    ‘Cause “the left” are monolithic and travel in lockstep and all. And there are no weirdos on “the right”.

    “There is no cause so noble that it will not attract some kooks.” – Larry Niven

    Brian
    August 10th, 2011 | 1:11 pm

    Ray: Considering I never said, implied, or believed the statements about the left or the right that you apparently are objecting to, I have no idea what the point of your post is supposed to be.

    Ray Ingles
    August 11th, 2011 | 6:54 am

    Brian – If you’d said “some on the left”, or even “many on the left”, I wouldn’t have bothered.

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