Think about it. How is an American military urologist working in Iraq supposed to get a hold of the Journal of Urology if it’s illegal to purchase it from a military base? Is that urologist supposed to go find an Internet Cafe somewhere in Sadr City, and place an order there, so American law won’t be broken? Paul Broun’s bill may pretend to be about “honor” and “decency”, but the fact is that, if passed, it would put American soldiers at risk.

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“Divorce is just terrible,” Rep. Dick Harwood, R-St. Maries, said. “It’s one of Satan’s best tools to kill America.”
I don’t think you’d find many people in the United States who would proclaim that divorce is just a hunky-dory process that should be encouraged whenever possible. But there are times and situations in which divorce […]

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In a USA Today editorial this morning, Republican Congressman Trent Franks manages to warp the fabric of American freedom in two different ways in his effort to justify torture.
First, he claims that “America’s distinguishing hallmark, its bedrock foundation, is that we hold to the self-evident truth that all men are created by God”. Of […]

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Fred Thompson shows two of the worst Republican traits in his plan to change promised Social Security benefits for a generation of working Americans who have already been putting money into the Social Security system for years.
1. Fred Thompson’s plan would reduce the Social Security benefits young Americans just forming families now have been […]

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