Lester Crawford, the FDA Commissioner who was appointed only two months ago and then proceeded to block over-the-counter sales of Plan B emergency contraception has resigned.

Crawford won a contentious confirmation battle in the Senate after Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt assured Senate Democrats the FDA would act on over-the- ( Read more... )

Well, let's look here:

The Republican-led House approved a bill that lets churches and other faith-based preschool centers hire only people who share their religion, yet still receive federal tax dollars ( Read more... )

I was trying to access the Speaking of Faith website in order to remind myself about an interview that I heard this week and what do I discover? It's been hacked by idiots.


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1. Good Intentions - Lyle Lovett
2. Moonshiner's Child - Miss Tammy Faye Starlite And The Angels Of Mercy
3. Jewels - Lucas Michailidis
4. It's No Use - Merle Saunders and Jerry Garcia
5. Good Love (Shouldn't Feel So Bad) - Kris Kristofferson

This interesting little story comes via Salon's War Room's Tim Grieve:

At the beginning of a press briefing at the Pentagon today, George W. Bush took a few relatively tough questions about Hurricane Rita, the administration's failure to capture Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, what he's going to cut to pay for Hurricane Katrina and why ( Read more... )

Update day, verse three.

I received a reply from Russ Madison on Monday to the e-mail that I sent him last Friday. Sorry it's taken me so long to post it, with the various car problems that I've been dealing with this week, it slipped my mind.

Mr. Smith ( Read more... )

Welcome to follow-up day, take two.

Remember when I mentioned that U.S. District Court Judge Janet Hall had overturned the USA PATRIOT Act gag rule which prevented librarians, bookseller, et al. from even saying that their records had been subject to a warrantless search?

Well, the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York decided that ( Read more... )

Last week, I wrote a post about two progressive groups attempting to use the Information Quality Act to convince the government to correct the lies told to kids in various Abstinence-Only Sex-Ed curricula ( Read more... )

Honest to goodness, this isn't accurate. I've taken the more "official" versions of this test multiple times and every time I come out ranked as a moderate libertarian (which is what I tend to see myself as).

My basic beliefs come down to these:

• Socially: Don't hurt other people
• Economically: Governmental action is necessary to ensure a ( Read more... )

After the Philharmonic

Two paths diverged in a well-known park,
One well-lit, the other -- dark.
And since I did not wish to die,
I took the one more traveled by.

--James Camp

Okay, that was short. Here's another one:

Shake and shake
The catsup bottle.
None will come,
And then a lot’ll.

--Richard Armour

This is fun. One more:

you fit into me ( Read more... )