crossblogging for choice from Liberal Street Fighter

People are often suprised how strongly I feel about Abortion being legal and freely available to women. I'm a white guy, middle class, raised in the "heartland" ... I look like I could be a talk radio fan. My "extreme" liberal point of view often suprises people. "Why do you care?" questions alternate with a suspicion that I just want to make sure my options are open if an "accident" occurs.

Well, I do have a selfish reason, I guess, but not in the way people would think. My life, ALL of our lives, are enriched when people are free. I honestly and deeply believe this basic humanist principle. Who can say how many poets, writers, doctors, scientists, engineers, entrepeneurs, singers and so on NEVER CAME TO BE, all because we as a culture have insisted for most of our history in making half the human race slaves to biological imperative?

Liberal Street Fighter

Samuel Alito, a man manifestly outside the political and social mainstream of American life, is facing the Senate Judiciary panel all this week. Like most rightwing extremists in the modern Republican party, this man is completely unable to straightforwardly express what he believes. He bobs, he weaves, he spins out mealy-mouthed strings of blather:

LEAHY: Well, let's go into one of those specifics. Do you believe the president has the constitutional authority as commander in chief to override laws enacted by Congress and immunize people under his command from prosecutions that they violate, these laws passed by Congress?

with hope for the future from Liberal Street Fighter

Dear Governor Dean,

It wasn't that long ago that you thrilled so many of us with the following words:

Our history has been the story of change. The struggle to live up to our founding ideals—justice and equality—has been an ongoing one. When we have seen injustice and inequality in our institutions and our laws, the American people have risen time and again to challenge them.

When the majority of Americans awoke to the injustice of slavery, our citizens decided that no moral future existed for a Republic that allowed the ownership of our fellow human beings.

And once slavery had been abolished, the country went on to guarantee the rights of women.

more indignation from Liberal Street Fighter

Growing up can seem so daunting, for both the child and the parent. In our society, parenting is primarily described as protecting or sheltering children. Pedophiles seem to be around every corner, judging by the relentless string of reports in the Infotainment Media. Families are pummeled by commercialism, economic pressures, consumerism ... how, oh how to protect these poor, fragile flowers from such a harsh, cruel world?

Dispatch from the culture wars from Liberal Street Fighter