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The Obama-Notre Dame Controversy Is Just Hysteria of a Catholic Right-Wing Fringe
Tweet Share on Facebook March 31, 2009 Comment (140)New Gallup poll data show the controversy over President Obama's commencement speech at Notre Dame University may be much ado about nothing. Except for fringe church radicals, that is.
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Women in Power Would Mean Higher Taxes, If a Better Country
Tweet Share on Facebook March 30, 2009 Comment (25)By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
My TJS colleague Mary Kate Cary refers us to an interesting Christian Science Monitor opinion piece by her former Bush #41 speechwriting colleague, Mark Lange, who proposes that women might do better running the world than men:
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Health Insurance Blacklists Almost Make National Healthcare Look Good
Tweet Share on Facebook March 30, 2009 Comment (46)I'm totally against nationalized healthcare of any sort. I've heard horror stories from too many friends living in countries where healthcare is nationalized. One Canadian told me about having to wait months for a CT-scan to find out whether her brain tumor was benign or malignant.
An Italian national described being required to show up at a public clinic every three days for prescription drugs (because nationalized healthcare is too cheap to give them out in 30-day supplies.) But the Miami Herald ran an investigation into how insurance companies secretly blacklist millions of Americans with common ailments. The investigation's results are so infuriating it's enough to make even me think socialized medicine might be an improvement (just kidding.) At the very least, as the Obama administration tackles healthcare, this sort of thing ought to be banned and its perpetrators dragged to the public square and punished:
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Animals Feel Pain, and Jesus (Likely) Knew It
Tweet Share on Facebook March 27, 2009 Comment (49)By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.
To anyone who still believes animals don't experience pain, here's a new study to shock you into reality:
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Notre Dame Inquisition: Obama Commencement Flap and a Fading Catholic Church
Tweet Share on Facebook March 27, 2009 Comment (36)By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.
The controversy over Notre Dame University's invitation to President Obama to deliver this year's commencement address is too tempting for me not to join, so here goes. My colleague Dan Gilgoff has been doing a stunning job of recounting the battle, blow by blow.
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Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients Is Stupid
Tweet Share on Facebook March 26, 2009 Comment (204)By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.
This is one of the dumbest things I've heard recently coming out of state legislatures, forcing thinking people to pose the question: And what is your point?
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Hating Feminists? What Is Kathryn Lopez of the National Review Thinking?
Tweet Share on Facebook March 26, 2009 Comment (8)By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.
The NRO's Kathryn Lopez offered a one-line post yesterday that preceded an excerpt of an Agence France-Presse article on Saudi cleric hysteria over women's advancement in that country. Lopez's one-liner was questionable.
The article quoted clerics as saying, among other unbelievably atavistic statements, that it is "religiously impermissible" for Saudi women to appear on television and other babble as follows:
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Obama's Sloppy Stimulus Attracts Crooks, So the FBI Gets Swamped
Tweet Share on Facebook March 25, 2009 Comment (7)By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.
The following story drew the "duh" response from me and will from you, too:
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Obama's Historic Appointment: the First Woman as Solicitor General
Tweet Share on Facebook March 25, 2009 Comment (4)By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
Since I am the first person to point out President Obama's flaws, let me also jump to praise him with a little-noticed but significant appointment this past week. With nary a peep from the media, former Harvard Law School dean and noted lawyer Elena Kagan was sworn in last week as the nation's first female Solicitor General.
The solicitor general is not a well-known post, but it is a highly influential one. The solicitor general not only argues the administration's positions before the U.S. Supreme Court but also crafts administration legal positions on a host of crucial public policy issues.
So hear, hear for the Obama administration for placing the first female in this critical legal post.
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Obama Stimulus, Tax Increases Are Losing Democrats Key Support
Tweet Share on Facebook March 24, 2009 Comment (38)By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.
I would like to chime in with my TJS colleague, Michael Barone, and offer my opinion on why Democrats are doing worse in generic polls than they were before the November elections:
