Both conservative stalwarts have endorsed Christine O’Donnell in her Senate primary battle against centrist Republican Mike Castle. The primary is tonight. Where do you come down on this issue? Is Krauthammer right about the Buckley strategy in general? Does it apply to this scenario? Also, make sure you weigh in at the NB poll on the topic.
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Open Thread: Krauthammer: Palin, DeMint Endorsements ‘Disruptive and Capricious’
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The popular classifieds website Craigslist may not have a legal liability when it comes to use of its services for sex trafficking and prostitution, but they have a social responsibility to address the issue, Culture and Media Institute Assistant Editor Nathan Burchfiel told CBN’s “Newswatch” Sept. 9. The site recently shut down its “Adult Services” section after 17 state attorneys general sent a letter to the company outlining its role in illegal activities including child prostitution and sex trafficking. The section is no longer available to U.S. users, but Burchfiel pointed out that the change doesn’t seem to have had much effect. “What they’ve done is blocked off this one section of the site in the United States only, it’s still available internationally, and these companies, these businesses that have been advertising essentially prostitution, some of them underage prostitution, illegal sex trafficking, have just moved those ads to different parts of the site,” he told anchor Wendy Griffith. “They’re still getting up there. They’re still really easy to find, frankly.” A Sept. 8 Culture and Media Institute report noted that while Craigslist appears to have addressed the issue, ads for brothels and other “adult services” are still readily available across the site. Dozens of listings appeared in other sections of the Washington, D.C., Craigslist, including numerous ads for business under investigation by local authorities. When asked if there would be a change from the company, Burchfiel expressed skepticism. “Given their history, the way that they’ve addressed this issue in the past, it’s not really likely,” he said. “It’s unfortunate, because in spite of the fact that they might not have any legal liability on the issue, they really have a social responsibility as a company of the size and influence that Craigslist is to do something about this. Burchfiel added, “Not only is it an issue where they’re helping people commit illegal acts and in often cases making people victims of horrible crimes, but they’re doing this on a forum that’s really easily accessible to anyone, including kids. It’s not a site where you have to register or prove that you’re a certain age to get access to. So there’s a lot of social responsibility issues that trump the legal issues that aren’t really there.”
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Filed under: Oksana Grigorieva , Mel Gibson , Judge Scott Gordon , Celebrity Justice Sources tell TMZ … Oksana Grigorieva will appear in court tomorrow … in her child support case with Mel Gibson . We’ve confirmed the issue of child support is on Judge Scott Gordon ‘s docket.
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Image credit: Munts Family I once very publicly confessed my laziness in putting up a clothes line , and the battles over clothes lines and property values are well publicized by now. But whether you are an avid outdoor drier, or you wouldn’t be seen dead hanging your undies up in public, all too often the issue of clothes drying is presented as either the line, or the dryer. But there are other options. The trouble is, some of them … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Preconceived notions are dangerous things in journalism. They cause one to assume facts that aren’t in evidence, leading to false or incomplete results. A classic example has played out in the nearly three months since Arizona passed its “1070 law.” Among other things, it mandates that law enforcement officials verify citizenship status in situations involving police contact if they have a reasonable suspicion that someone is not in the country legally. It seems that virtually everyone covering the story has been assuming that Arizona’s law is the first of its kind. Well, maybe as a “law” it is. But in Rhode Island, of all places, Boston Globe reporter Maria Sacchetti finally noticed on July 6 (HT Hot Air ) that police have been doing what Arizona will start doing on July 29 since 2008 as a result of a gubernatorial executive order: R.I. troopers embrace firm immigration role In contrast to Mass., they report all who are present illegally From Woonsocket to Westerly, the troopers patrolling the nation’s smallest state are reporting all illegal immigrants they encounter, even on routine stops such as speeding, to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE. “There are police chiefs throughout New England who hide from the issue . . . and I’m not hiding from it,’’ said Colonel Brendan P. Doherty, the towering commander of the Rhode Island State Police. “I would feel that I’m derelict in my duties to look the other way.’’ Rhode Island’s collaboration with federal immigration authorities is controversial; critics say the practice increases racial profiling and makes immigrants afraid to help police solve crimes. But it is a practice that Governor Deval Patrick’s opponents in the governor’s race are urging Massachusetts to revive. The Patrick administration has staunchly opposed having state troopers enforce immigration laws, and shortly after he took office in 2007, the governor rescinded a pact by his predecessor, Mitt Romney, to assign 30 troopers to the so-called federal 287(g) program, which trains local police to enforce federal immigration law. … In 2008, Governor Donald L. Carcieri, a Republican, issued an executive order mandating immigration checks on all new state workers and ordering State Police to assist federal immigration officials. Sitting in his office in an old farmhouse off a country highway, Doherty said the State Police had collaborated with federal immigration officials before, but the relationship has become more formal in recent years. In 2007, he said, he trained all state troopers in how to deal with noncitizens because of widespread confusion and because Congress did not resolve the issue of illegal immigration. Troopers learned to notify consulates when noncitizens are arrested, how to recognize different forms of identification, and how to deal with different cultures. One can’t help but wonder how well Ms. Sacchetti or whoever came up with the idea of looking into Rhode Island’s posture is being treated in the Globe’s newsroom these days. Her bosses and the rest of the establishment press should be really be asking themselves why they didn’t bother to look into what other states are doing when the Arizona law passed. Or, worse if true, they should be justifying why parallels they did find (how could they have missed California, as noted by the NewsBusters staff on Friday ?) were somehow not worthy of coverage. Did they decide to not look at Rhode Island because “everybody knows” that such a liberal state couldn’t possibly be strictly enforcing immigration laws — when in fact it is? Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com .
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Antonia Senior of The Times of London revealed her extremist position in favor of abortion in a June 30 column . Senior bluntly admitted that the intentional killing of the unborn was a cause she would be willing to die for, and while acknowledging it was “taking a life,” she labeled it was a ” lesser evil ,” for, in her view, “you cannot separate women’s rights from their right to fertility control.” The British journalist, is the personal finance editor for The Times, began her column with outlining the extent to which abortion is a core issue for her. Senior noted that in the Tower of London, there’s an “interactive display that ask visitors to vote on whether they would die for a cause.” After eliminating dolphins and even her own country of England as potential choices, she continued that she “could think of one cause I would stake my life on: a woman’s right to be educated, to have a life beyond the home and to be allowed by law and custom to order her own life as she chooses. And that includes complete control over her own fertility.” Senior then revealed her own internal turmoil over the issue of abortion: Yet something strange is happening to this belief that has, for so long, shaped my core; my moral certainty about abortion is wavering, my absolutist position is under siege . It’s not a baby, it’s a foetus, you God-squaddies [British derogatory slang for someone who is militant, roughly equivalent to “grunt”], the teenage me would have crowed at the pro-lifers. It’s a woman’s body, her choice, end of, I would have proclaimed in whatever patois we were speaking back then. The report last week by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, which found that the human foetus cannot feel pain before 24 weeks, would have been waved triumphantly at anyone who crossed my path, along with an invitation to be taught the meaning of pain. This is not, you see, a rational debate, but one of passion and vitriol and tribalism. Then came a baby, and everything changed . I think of it as the Anna Karenina conundrum. If you read the book as a teenager, you back her choices with all the passion of youth. Love over convention, go Anna! Then you have children and realise that Anna abandons her son to shack up with a pretty soldier, and then her daughter when she jumps under a train. She becomes a selfish witch. Having a baby paints the world an entirely different hue. Black and white no longer quite cut it. The abortion issue hinges on the notion of life. The pro-life position is clear: a baby is a life, with rights, from the instant of conception. The pro-choice position insists that we are talking only about a potential life, with no rights. An embryo is not a person. Later, after delving into the semantics of the debate over abortion, the journalist made a remarkable admission, given her pro-abortion position: What seems increasingly clear to me is that, in the absence of an objective definition, a foetus is a life by any subjective measure . My daughter was formed at conception , and all the barely understood alchemy that turned the happy accident of that particular sperm meeting that particular egg into my darling, personality-packed toddler took place at that moment…. Any other conclusion is a convenient lie that we on the pro-choice side of the debate tell ourselves to make us feel better about the action of taking a life . Even with this admission, Senior cannot bring herself to part from her support for legalized abortion because of her die-hard feminism, and concluded her column by spouting some of her side’s talking points and included her “lesser evil” line about the murder of defenseless unborn babies: So we are left with a problem. A growing movement in America, spearheaded by Sarah Palin, is pro-life feminism, This attempts to decouple feminism from abortion rights, arguing that you can believe in a woman’s right to be empowered without believing in her right to abort. Its proponents report a groundswell of support among young women looking to reinvent their mothers’ ideology. But you cannot separate women’s rights from their right to fertility control . The single biggest factor in women’s liberation was our newly found ability to impose our will on our biology . Abortion would have been legal for millennia had it been men whose prospects and careers were put on sudden hold by an unexpected pregnancy. The mystery pondered on many a girls’ night out is how on earth men, bless them, managed to hang on to political and cultural hegemony for so long. The only answer is that they are not in hock to their biology as much as we are. Look at a map of the world and the right to abortion on request correlates pretty exactly with the expectation of a life unburdened by misogyny . As ever, when an issue we thought was black and white becomes more nuanced , the answer lies in choosing the lesser evil . The nearly 200,000 aborted babies in the UK each year are the lesser evil , no matter how you define life, or death, for that matter. If you are willing to die for a cause, you must be prepared to kill for it, too . Ms. Senior, the issue isn’t becoming “more nuanced.” By your own admission, our lives began at conception, and any claim to the contrary is a “convenient lie…to make us feel better about the action of taking a life.” It’s a crying shame that you can’t pull yourself out of your blind obedience to radical feminist dogma to make the right conclusion on the issue of abortion. [H/t: Ignatius Insight Scoop blog]
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photo via flickr California Senate candidate Cary Fioina is looking for an edge over her opponent, Sen. Barbara Boxer, and it looks like she may have settled on the issue of national security and climate change. Boxer, a long-time champion of clean energy and climate action, has been vocal about the link between national security and a changing climate, which could lead to conflicts over resources and border disputes. Despite studies from the military confirming the validity of Boxer’s concern, Fiorina and now Glen Beck are mock… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Olympic hurdler Lori “Lolo” Jones posed completely naked for a tasteful photo shoot featured in the ESPN’s infamous “The Body Issue”, which had Serena Williams nude on the cover MORE http://bumpshack.com/2010/06/09/lolo-jones-bares-all-in-the-body-issue-photos/ added by: c7girl
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