Criminalizing abortion is just another way conservatives try to control things they don't want to know are happening in this imperfect world. Unfortunately it is women who suffer. Women who are already having to face an awful decision as it is. This is not the 'walk in the park' contraception that so many on the right would lead you to believe can somehow be deterred through law. Conservatives, as in their usual manner, turn their backs on the most needing because of bad decisions and would rather end the potential of a bad decision maker mother than the potential of a pure being, one who hasn't yet showed the flawed human being that they are. It's a shame that more on the right don't practice the forgiveness aspect of Christianity and...

So you're equating the kind of fighting that happens in pubs every night with the danger of sniper rifles? There's a significant difference between beating someone up and promoting assassination, dontcha think?

I'd be happy if she would just admit that what she did was wrong. Wannabe leaders will never do that though for fear of looking weak. When will we all say that it's ok for leaders to admit they screwed up.

no worries horatio.. i think there are quite a few gay-haters and even repressed homosexuals like kevlar on this website.

The cross hairs and specific nature of pointing to people with a sniper rifle of palin's chart is worse. Both sides are guilty of some form of it. To think he would have killed regardless of all the hate speech is to give up on a possible solution to future violence.

the non-christian children were probably struggling with " why the heck is this freaky old man asking me about my rectum?"

In my experience university professors and the higher educated tend to be more liberal than not. The uneducated, less traveled, underprivileged white folk tend to be conservative. Unless you mean informed about nascar.

It's just that Navybrat immediately went to name calling with Horatio, a true second grade tactic. But I'm not surprised and do see it a lot here when there's little intelligent content to be said.

Go get an education Navybrat.

yes that's true. and what scare's me is that the more insensitive and lack of compassion a person has, the more capable he or she is of committing atrocious acts. All of this exaggeration desensitizes the masses and polarizes and even dehumanizes the "other" side.