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Christopher Gelpi, associate professor of Political Science at Duke University and author, Choosing Your Battles: American Civil-Military Relations and the Use of Force (Princeton University Press, 2004).
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James Bamford, contributing editor at Rolling Stone, former Washington investigative producer for ABC's "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings", and ...

Tim Noah, senior writer at Slate and editor, The Woman at the Washington Zoo by Marjorie Williams (PublicAffairs, 2005)
- on the life and death of his wife, Majorie Williams

» The Woman at the Washington Zoo (PublicAffairs)
» Marjorie ...

Paul Leventhal, founding president and senior advisor at the Nuclear Control Institute a research and advocacy center for preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism.
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Joseph Cirincione, senior associate and director for Non-Proliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- on Mohammed AlBaradei's recent statements ...

Farhad Manjoo, writer for Salon.com
- on Dalton Conley's very controversial op-ed in the Times last week, and how Farhad changed his mind over the last few weeks

» Farhad Manjoo writing on Salon's blog, Broadsheet (subscription or watch an ad)

That's how one Politicker reader figures it. Go figure!

"Mike Outspent?" on the Politicker

Um, this is embarrassing to share, so just have a look but let's not talk about it. Key sentence: "The only rational man in this entire media debate over men's right to control women has been talk show host Brian Lehrer".

"Forced childbirth, forced abortion" on Alternet

Subject: changing minds (blog)
Women's absolute authority over their reproductive systems comes with absolute responsibility for their choices. There is however, no right to an easy choice. Compelling an unwilling father into legal parenthood is just as foul as compelling willing mothers into legal abortion. There are no happy endings here as you point out, but if through accident or idiocy a couple is forced into these unhappy choices it is her right to terminate and his right to walk. Just because both of these are arguably moral doesn't mean that the law should be required to make the choice easy; or worse not a choice at all.
-BR

Subject: Baby discussion
It can't be both ways:
If women are equal participants in sex, then pregnancy is a "no-fault" event.

And yet, men ARE forced to provide monetary support and women are not.

The discussion you are having pre-supposes that the mother remains competent to raise a child once she's given birth. Clearly, this is not true. Some significant proportion of females are not good mothers. Where are the laws compelling them to provide financial support for a child that the father raises?

The law should reflect that once having decided to give birth to a child, support is the female's responsibility provided the father has signified immediately upon learning of the pregnancy that he is against it.
-ES

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Rice faces mounting European criticism over CIA flights (Spiegel International)

Italian prosecutors allege they were misled by the CIA (Washington Post)

Plame to leave CIA (LA Times)

Mayor Bloomberg and Rep. King join calls for full accounting ...