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A teenager in Ohio has sued Planned Parenthood affiliates in Cincinnati, alleging that when she sought an abortion, its employees failed to report that she was a victim of incest.
The lawsuit comes at a time Planned Parenthood in Los Angeles is fighting back against a pro-life activist who posed as a pregnant 15-year-old and recorded […]

I had a colleague, a young’un who grew up during the 80s, who tried to tell me once that music in the 70s was “all white.” ‘Scuse me? How did he get that? The 70s was when Stevie Wonder broke out of the Motown mold and came into his own. And forget Christina Aguilerra or […]

Best rockers on stage, even compared to Zeppelin (though Zeppelin comes in at a close second). From their first album, Aerosmith, released in 1973, their signature rock ballad, Dream On. It’s obviously not from the 70s. They’re older, and Tyler isn’t as energetic, but it’s still damned good stuff:

Rockin Walk This Way (from Toys in […]

Hands down the gods of progressive rock, Yes was the only progrock band that wasn’t a studio band (well, except for ELP), and jammed on stage. Yes was a guaranteed hot show. Laser and light show, and who needs psychedelics when you’re seeing Yes in concert? Yes was a psychotropic experience. Progressive rock died when […]

Gather round, kids, let me tell you what life was like when I was a kid (well, high school, undergrad, that age). There were no CDs or optical technology. We had turntables and albums. There was no MTV. In fact, nobody had heard of a music video. You had two options: You could listen to […]

Nay, not so, says Andrew Ferguson, and he makes a good argument. Thanks to Betsy Newmark for the link

Rather than comment on the debate itself (Sister Toldjah has a good rundown), because it wasn’t really a debate (you can’t have a debate with that many candidates), I’ll contrast the first and second debates. The first was brought to us by MSNBC and hosted by Chris Matthews, and the second was brought to us […]

It’s official: Ron Paul a Space Alien

Thanks to Glenn Reynolds, I saw this :
Run-in changes lawmaker’s stance
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Phillip Morris
Plain Dealer Columnist
It’s funny how a gun can in stantly change your perspec tive on things, make you wish you could rewrite history.
State Rep. Michael DeBose, a southside Cleveland Democrat, discovered this lesson the night of May 1, when he thought […]

You gotta see this.

The current school board found out that it’s not a good idea to just decide to waste 115 million dollars on an unneeded new school, do everything they can to silence the opposition, and ram it through. In perhaps the biggest upset in the county, all the incumbents lost the primary:

Number of votes and percentage […]

If you are so unfortunate as to have been reading the local rag since the last election, you’d be under the impression that the county has gone Democrat. I’ve seen at least six stories, all nothing but anecdotes, about how many people are supposedly changing their party registration from Republican to Democrat. Well, if that […]

From the local rag:
ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta, who gained national prominence by targeting illegal immigrants living in his small northeastern Pennsylvania city, cruised to the Republican nomination for a third term on Tuesday - and unexpectedly won the Democratic nomination, too.
Barletta trounced GOP challenger Dee Deakos with nearly 94 percent of the […]

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