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AB1056 Provides that a student NOT VOCALLY ACKNOWLEDGING a persons sexuality is to be considered intolerant of a persons sexuality, and it will be dealt with like any other infraction of school rules.

Here is a link to the text of the bill; [link="http://www.aroundthecapitol.com/billtrack/text.html?file=ab_1056_bill_20060911_enrolled...

I'll just start a new thread since Moderateman can't handle heated debate on his thread.

I do hope that you reconsider your blacklist of Davad70, he is bright and reasonable. I have debated with him many times, both in agreement and disagreement. But let me respond to his question, as a Jew and a lifelong Democrat.

"Why should I, or any other Democrat, apologize for there being some whackos on our side?" I'm not looking for an apology, what I am looking for is a statement that the anti-Sem...

U.S. involvement in Iraq has been incredibly successful and developments there have been "nothing short of a miracle," Sen. James Inhofe said Monday.

Enough said!

Wait...maybe he meant that it's a miracle more people aren't dead. It's amazing that he's actually been to Iraq like 11 times. Then again, maybe he doesn't actually leave his hotel room when he's there...who knows.

I've read the following on conservative blogs time and time again;

Black people just don't realize that the GOP has their best interest in mind.

The democrats have taken them for granted for years.

The democrats are actually more exclusionary and racist than the GOP.

The GOP is and always will be "The Party of Lincoln".

What I never hear is why that is. If it's so obvious to everyone, then why haven't minorities bothered to notice? Are they all brainwashed? Are they just too ...

Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman boldly made the following statement yesterday;

"The situation seems far more stable than when I was here two or three years ago," he said in an interview in the fortified Green Zone. "The security seems better, people are more relaxed. There is an optimism, at least among the people I talked to."

Bodman was in Iraq meeting with the Iraqi oil and electricity ministers.

This statement is in stark contrast to the recent statements made by Rep. Gil Gutkne...

A few days back I saw an interview with the comedian Lewis Black on CNN. He was asked whether the increased seriousness and frequency of world events made things more difficult or easier for him. He said that it was easier, but harder to keep up with.This week Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) lightened the load on comedians and satirists. Emanuel was responding to a recent report by the National Journal regarding White House staffer's salaries and more specifically to the information that there is so...

Three people who were caught looting liquor six days after Hurricane Katrina were convicted today, and sentenced to 15 years in prison.From CNN;The judge said he wanted to send a message that looting would not be tolerated when he gave the maximum sentence to Coralnelle Little, 36, Rhonda McGowen, 42, and Paul C. Pearson, 36, all of Kenner.A jury convicted the trio May 2 on a portion of the state's looting law that took effect two weeks before the Aug. 29 storm. The amended law set a three-year...

ABC News reports;The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dennis Hastert, is under investigation by the FBI, which is seeking to determine his role in an ongoing public corruption probe into members of Congress, ABC News has learned from high level official sources.

Federal officials say the information implicating Hastert was developed from convicted lobbyists who are now cooperating with the government.

Part of the investigation involves a letter Hastert wrote three years ago, urgi...

I'm going to miss you, Tom Delay...

I don't know that I should really admit to this, but I like hating the GOP.

For years it has been so easy to hate them when they have leaders like DeLay, Frist, and Cunningham.

But now Cunningham is gone, and DeLay is going. That just leaves me with Frist. Frist isn't that much fun to hate, because he comes off as a clown most of the time.

The easy path to take is for me to just start bashing Bush. However, I think there are plenty around to do ...

Read this at Washington Monthly;THE NEWS FROM BAGHDAD....Riverbend watches the news on Iraqi TV:

I was reading the little scrolling news headlines on the bottom of the page.... Suddenly, one of them caught my attention and I sat up straight on the sofa, wondering if I had read it correctly....The line said: The translation: “The Ministry of Defense requests that civilians do not comply with the orders of the army or police on nightly patrols unless they are accompanied by coalition forces wo...

South Dakota sounds like a scary place.Writing in Slate, Bert Brandenburg of The Justice at Stake Campaign examines the latest controversy regarding judicial independence: The newest front in the war on the courts is being fought in South Dakota, where, in the shadow of Mt. Rushmore, a group called "J.A.I.L. 4 Judges" is promoting one of the most radical threats to justice this side of the Spanish Inquisition. It's extreme and it's incoherent, but it's got more than 40,000 petition signatures—a...

From Raw Story Link

Vanity Fair is set to publish a tell-all interview with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, noting that his plea-bargain sentence can be "substantially reduced" by co-operating with investigators.

The piece makes much of many prominent Republicans' denials of having worked with Abramoff. Abramoff reminisces about jokes President Bush, who now claims not to remember him, made about his weight training program. Abramoff also recalls discussing the Bible, opera, and gol...

By DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer NEW YORK - Contending that women have more options than they do in the event of an unintended pregnancy, men's rights activists are mounting a long shot legal campaign aimed at giving them the chance to opt out of financial responsibility for raising a child.

The National Center for Men has prepared a lawsuit — nicknamed Roe V. Wade for Men — to be filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Michigan on behalf of a 25-year-old computer programmer o...

Today Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said this;

"I will say this about Iran. They are currently putting people into Iraq to do things that are harmful to the future of Iraq. And we know it."

A few moments later Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Peter Pace said this;

PACE: The most recent reports have to do with individuals [from Iran] crossing the border into Iraq.

QUESTION: Do you believe it’s backed by the government or are they individual elements not backed by the centr...

A Federal Court Judge listened to testimony yesterday from Mohammed Bawazir, regarding him being force fed to keep him alive at Guantanamo Bay.

Bawazir, who has been imprisoned since 2002, not only claims that this process was so painful that it made him give up on his hunger strike, but that the act of strapping him to a chair for hours is inhumane.

This is the first case to be heard that would test the new "Detainee Treatment Act" that was recently passed.

Officials at Guantanamo bega...