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Guess who testifies today?

*cues up cspan.org*

Edit: I was afraid this was going to happen. Goodling is loyal to Bush, so she is being a hostile witness. This despite having immunity.

They shouldn't have granted her immunity so quickly. Now they can't prosecute her for the crimes she did commit (hiring career prosecutors based on their political affiliation).

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What five songs make you cry when you hear them?

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"The danger then consists merely in this: the president can displace from office a man whose merits require that he should be continued in it. What will be the motives which the president can feel for such abuse of his power, and the restraints that operate to prevent it? In the first place, he will be im-peachable by this house, before the senate, for such an act of mal-administration; for I contend that the wanton removal of meritorious officers would subject him to impeachment and removal from his own high trust."

--James Madison

No one should be fired for doing their job. That's the long and the short of it.

AH... a connection.

IF the U.S. government has the right/ability to torture, and IF the U.S. government has the right/ability to forcefeed someone on a hunger strike, then it has already established that there are no practical grounds to claim bodily integrity.

Which means that it becomes that much easier to encroach on abortion rights. Because the right to an abortion--that is, the right to privacy--is based on the idea that one has the right to determine what happens to one's own body (or at least that the government has no say in what happens to one's body--it cannot compel one to undergo a surgical procedure one does not want, for example).

When someone claims there is no right to privacy, they are saying there is no right to deny the government access to one's person.

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Banned for life: Gay men still can't donate blood: FDA wants to prevent HIV spread; Red Cross, others say it's 'unwarranted'

60-year-old N.J. woman delivers twins: Believed to be the oldest mom in the U.S. to give birth to multiples

Goodling: Gonzales tried to review story -- best article on Goodling's testimony so far. BTW, "review story" really should read "coach testimony" | Ex-Gonzales Aide Tells of 'Uncomfortable' Meeting With Former Boss -- ABCNews gets it

'Cowboy up,' Alberto Gonzales -- David Iglesias, one of the fired US Attorneys, pens an op-ed

Clay pots found at ancient Greece shrine