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AS MORE than 80 young women arrived amid great fanfare in the Nigerian capital to take part in the Miss World contest, an illiterate 31-year-old woman sat in a stark room a few miles away contemplating a very different fate. Amina Lawal has been sentenced to death by stoning.
Isn’t this an issue that the National Organization for Women should be on like ugly on an ape? You would think so, but other than a press release, not a peep from the NOW gang, as they have much more heady issues to tackle. Weighty, deep issues, with much more urgency, like:
Trying to force Augusta National to admit womyn members.
Combatting the Bush/Cheney “weapon of mass distraction” by stepping up voter mobilization for 2004.
Promoting accurate and diverse portrayals of womyn and girls in the media.
Keeping on top of judicial nominations.
A full plate, indeed. The tragic thing is that NOW will probably spend more time and energy fighting the swimsuit portion of the Miss World contest than they will fighting for Amina Lawal. Maybe if they just pretend that Miss Lawal is a fetus, they can then live with themselves.
Congrats. (via the Blogfather)
Who Was Politicizing Homeland Security?
Who Was Politicizing Homeland Security?
Synopsis:
Dems claim Bush is politicizing Homeland Security.
Dems get it handed to them in the election, in part because voters think Republicans are better on National Security issues.
Homeland Security, as the President wanted it, appears close to passage.
Again, who was playing politics?
*** Update ***
A reader asks why I say only Democrats were playing politics. I say this, because this is what Bush and company have wanted from the get-go. Dems, if they were acting on principle and not because of polls, would continue their opposition. Changing your position because you lost an election is not standing on principle.
Bin Laden May Not be
But we can still hope. And if he is not, this is not a failure on Buhs’s part. He has never claimed he was dead, and he has continued to prosecute the war on terror as if he were still alive. Remember, it was Daschle, in an attempt to keep Bush from proclaiming any success, who wanted to claim that success would be defined as a dead bin Laden. Not Bush.
Daschle said the United States must find ex-Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar and Osama bin Laden and other leaders of the al-Qaida terrorist network, “or we will have failed.”
Fine, Mr. Daschle. You have failed. Bush never claimed, however, that this was a condition of victory, and Bush is the one who has continuously stated that the war on terror was going to last a long time.
Reality Check This is Censorship.
Reality Check
Cancelling a poetry reading by Tom Paulin, someone whose views are beyond the pale, is not.
There is a difference between telling someone you can’t say something and telling them we would rather not fund your opinions or provide you with a forum to espouse your idiocy.