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July 7, 2008

Obama: Flip-flopping over abortion?

Throughout his candidacy, Barack Obama has consistently been seen as an advocate for abortion rights, earning him support from such organizations as NARAL. But after Obama clarified his position on late-term abortions this past Saturday, saying that he opposed "mental distress" as a reason for late-term (22 weeks or later) abortions, the blogosphere was quick to question Obama's true beliefs.

July 5, 2008

Another move to the centre by Obama

Aggregated from: Kiwiblog

Another huge move to the centre by Obama. He has just come out against late term abortions unless there is a serious physical threat to the mother. He has specifically rejected mental distress as grounds for late term abortions. A late-term abortion is generally regarded as being after 20 weeks, but...

July 3, 2008

New York Times!

Aggregated from: freedom writer

''When Mr. Obama began his presidential campaign, Muslim Americans from California to Virginia responded with enthusiasm, seeing him as a long-awaited champion of civil liberties, religious tolerance and diplomacy in foreign affairs. But more than a year later, many say, he has not returned their em...

July 2, 2008

Obama Nenay! (Madagascar for Obama)

Madagascar is a country better known for its cartoon portrayal than for its media representation, yet its blogosphere is actively voicing its opinions of the upcoming U.S. elections. One blogger, Ketablaogy [fr], explains the reason for creating the Facebook page, Madagascar for Obama/Obama Nenay: Parce-qu’il est urgent, pour des millions ...

June 19, 2008

Global: “I'm Voting Republican”

"I'm Voting Republican", a short film created by Charlie Steak and SyntheticHuman Pictures, has quickly gone viral and created quite a stir on the internet. A sample quote from the parody:   I'm voting Republican because I think new drugs should be made available immediately, whether they've been tested properly or ...

June 17, 2008

Barack Obama's Speech on Father's Day

Aggregated from: Darryl Wolk Blog

Barack Obama's Speech on Father's DayBarack addressed the congregation at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago, IL on June 15, 2008....

The Special candidate

Aggregated from: Rantings of a Sandmonkey » American politics

Hillary wasn't only the first woman with a strong chance of being nominated for President, as Hitchens reminds us: Posterity may well remember the Hillary Clinton campaign as the nearest that a member of the female gender had thus far gotten to the nomination of a major political party. But the...

Czech Republic, U.S.: Intermarriages

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

Sue of To Czech and Back, a U.S.-based American married to a Czech, guestblogs at Tanja's CzechMateDiary.com; Tanja is a U.S.-based Czech married to an American. ...

June 16, 2008

Updates: Pipes’ Pinocchios; Obama’s Gender; Undivided Jerusalem

Aggregated from: South Jerusalem

* The Washington Post’s campaign factchecker awards three Pinocchios to conservative rottweiler Floyd Brown - and to his pseudo-academic alter ego, Daniel Pipes - for promoting the canard was a Muslim as a child and is hiding the fact: “Both Brown and Pipes base their arguments and conclusi...

Abstinence Assumptions

Aggregated from: A Political Glimpse from Ireland

My internet connection has been acting up recently and I have been unable to figure out what is the problem after analyzing the signal, I am receiving low signal when Windows says I have “Excellent” Signal. Any ideas? I received another email from MoveOn.org the other day detailing Plann...