Carmakers' arrogance hurts their case for assistance A good bit of humble pie is being consumed on Wall Street these days. The investment banking industry as we knew it 12 months ago no longer exists. Several top banks have collapsed or been folded into others. …
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Our view on reproductive rights: Abortion foes take new tack
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/11/our-view-on-rep.htmlOur view on reproductive rights: Abortion foes take new tack By seeking common ground, they can make procedure less common. Realism seems to have struck some ardent foes of abortion. After 35 years of trying to outlaw the procedure nationally while chipping away at abortion rights state by state, they have decided to add a new and sensible initiative. …
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Opposing view: Compromise equals betrayal
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/11/opposing-view-c.htmlOpposing view: Compromise equals betrayal By Joseph M. Scheidler Some "pro-life" organizations are proposing to begin working with groups that support abortion. Their concept is to accept as fact that we cannot outlaw abortion any time soon, and so we should work on reducing the number of abortions. …
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Joe Scheidler Takes on the Faux Pro-Lifers
http://www.suzyb.org/blog/_archives/2008/11/21/3988605.htmlabout working with pro-aborts to find "common ground" on abortion. Unfortunately their definition of common ground doesn't include actual restrictions on abortion -- the one thing proven to reduce it. Noted pro-life leader Joe Scheidler responded in today's USA Today:
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Roundup: For Some Anti-Choicers, "Compromise Means Betrayal"
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2008/11/21/roundup-for-so...there. Often, the woman feels she has no choice because someone important in her life refuses to support a decision to keep the baby...We see the effort to combine pro-life and pro-choice forces as a betrayal on the part of the pro-lifers. But USA Today itself editorialized in favor of the new approach: Even before Election Day, a loose coalition of conservative academics, prominent anti-abortion pastors, lay Catholics and other activists began working with old enemies in the pro-abortion rights camp to push a new
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USA Today: Abortion Foes Work Toward a New Agenda
http://blogs.northlandchurch.net/2008/11/21/usa-today-aborti...Meanwhile, if this first sign of détente in the abortion wars helps make the procedure less common but still available, it will be a notable accomplishment. Posted at 12:21 AM/ET, November 21, 2008 in USA TODAY editorial. Find this article at: http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/11/our-view-on-rep.html
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Get Energy Smart! NOW!!! —
http://getenergysmartnow.comDOMINIC LUBERTO: I don’t go half way, I go all the way or I don’t do it at all, and that’s the way people should do it, if you’re going to do something just do it right, go all the way and do it right. One reaction to Luberto’s display, from Boca Raton, Florida, At the risk of being labeled a Grinch or Scrooge himself, given the urgency of our climate change situation, perhaps it is time to seek moderation and find new ways (or old — candlelight perhaps) to
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Positive Pillar
http://liquidthinker.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/positive-pilla...USA Today
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The Next Bailout: Healthcare
http://bobmaistros.com/?p=132are ready to buy into Obama’s plan requiring universal coverage, stating, “Business groups want to reduce the cost and improve the quality of care.” Like that’s gonna happen. Lower costs? In a USA Today op-ed today, my pal, former colleague and cogent analyst of just about every subject, John Merline, puts his dazzling and daunting reportorial skills to work to burst the bubble surrounding Prezelect O’s promise of an average savings of $2500 on health
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¿Es justo comparar el fundamentalismo religioso con el Ateísmo duro?
http://dios.sobrenatural.net/2008/11/20/fundamentalismo-reli...que solo quieren destruir a América. Claramente dichos expertos no están familiarizados con la sicología de proyección. Incluso en ese tan positivo artículo en el diairo USA Today, el autor no pudo evitar totalmente degradar a los Ateos: La reputación de los Ateos no ha sido bien servida por los hoscos ataques a la religión por algunos abanderados Ateos de alto perfil. Desde los bien vendidos manifiestos Ateos de años recientes hasta la nueva película Religulous de Bill Maher, las ¿Perdón? ¿Los Ateos son presentados como equivalentes morales a los fundamentalistas religiosos porque algunos abogan fuertemente su posición? No, para nada. ¿Cuántos Ateos hacen seriamente propoisiciones de política pública para declarar
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November 20, 2008
http://www.edspresso.com/index.php/2008/11/november-20-2008/s most prominent scholars are offering President-elect Barack Obama’s advisers and other Washington policymakers their collected wisdom on research-backed strategies the next administration can use to improve schooling. Tailoring School To The Child USA Today, November 20, 2008 There’s no doubt that home schooling is now a serious alternative to private and public schools. The National Center for Education Statistics reports that the number of home-schoolers grew 29% from 1999 to 2003.
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Where religion and environment meet - cool! … but how exactly is this going to work?
http://blog.climateandenergy.org/2008/11/20/where-religion-a...hit the link at the bottom of the entry to read the rest. The original entry also has lots of links to resources that aren’t going to make the transition to this reprint, so go back and check them out if you are interested. Reprinted in full from USAToday
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Dr. Robyn Silverman's Blog
http://drrobyn.wordpress.comenter their teens and adult years. This is part 2– part 1 is here. The questions for today are, how can we help parents to take a step back and allow children in their 20s to grow up and be self-reliant? Should we? Are adult children in their 20s too young to “go it alone” in today’s world? Do you think parents are having a problem “backing off” these days and allowing children to make mistakes and take risks? As a parent, how have you approached the “letting go” proces
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