Posted on May 18th, 2007 by Stephanie
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has proposed a law that would make even attempted copyright infringement would mean facing severe penalties. I don’t just mean jail time; the proposal would include penalties similar to what they do for drug offenses.
The government could seize personal property, wiretaps would become legal for the first time, violators could face [...]
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Posted on May 2nd, 2007 by Stephanie
As a work at home mother, one of the things that can drive me nuts is people talking about how stay at home moms are taking us backwards from all the gains made by feminists. I happen to feel that that is utter nonsense.
The kind of feminism I subscribe to is that women and men [...]
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Posted on April 16th, 2007 by Stephanie
The whole deal with Imus being fired has really blown up much bigger than I like. Now it appears that Media Matters wants to go after other shock jocks, including conservative ones.
I read about this over at Gun Toting Liberal, and I have to agree… this whole thing is a bad, bad idea. We may [...]
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Posted on April 7th, 2007 by Stephanie
I became aware of the Blog Against Theocracy blogswarm earlier today and just had to participate. It has long seemed to me that evangelicals have been trying to move the United States in that direction, and more recently have been making headway with willing politicians.
Obviously, I don’t approve.
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Posted on March 22nd, 2007 by Stephanie
There’s been quite a fuss about the firing of eight US Attorneys. People are screaming that they were politically motivated, unjustified and so forth.
I must admit the firings came at an unusual time. It’s common practice for an incoming President to fire existing US Attorneys. Nothing wrong with that at all, even though it’s obviously [...]
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Posted on March 20th, 2007 by Stephanie
I have absolutely no problem with the idea that abortions are too common in this country. I think of it as a problem. But I am pro-choice and firmly oppose making abortion illegal.
So this makes me pause and think when I read that Georgia is considering requiring women to have the chance to view an [...]
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