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...Search of Deep Throat: The Greatest Political Mystery of Our Time" (Basic Books) just arrived in the mail...
...brainer (not to mention a slap in Al Gore's face), there is a great deal about the bill that makes many abortion rights advocates very nervous. The logic of the bill (an innocent life should not end because someone else commits a crime) leads neatly into basic pro-life theory: If we suspend a pregnant woman's execution out of respect for the "innocence" of the fetus, how can we justify any abortion? Because after all, one fetus is as "innocent" as the next...
...itself a state-sanctioned execution.) But what is the alternative to allowing that choice? The continued chipping away at Roe v. Wade. Instead of stripping female prisoners of their identity as human beings and making decisions for them, we could avoid this awful dilemma by taking much more basic action and abolishing the death penalty altogether...
...Bush interpretation says the choice of Cheney sends a signal of interesting self-confidence. Cheney is the choice of a candidate focused not on running for president but on governing after he wins. Cheney serves no ideological or geographic function on the ticket. But in the basic constitutional way, he is an ideal vice president - a manifestly able man qualified to be interim president should something happen to President George W. Bush...
Quote: "We're really working to get local low-income people involved.... There is going to be a big youth contingent and a big labor contingent.... We're basically saying that we expect our elected officials to deal with basic human needs and not the corporate agenda." -organizer Lisa Fithian...