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[Oregonlive.com] OregonLive.com: The Oregonian's Iraq Blog: The latest letters | More letters | Iraq Blog. Since the blog was launched, many people have sent in emails with greetings from home. Read their letters: ...

 [Andrewsullivan.com] www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish: One of the few studies of teen marriage in the United States, carried out by the Center for Law and Social Policy, a Washington think tank, found that the number of married teenagers in the U.S. surged by almost 50 percent during the 1990s--the most significant jump in early marriage since the 1950s. The report pegs the growing attractiveness of early wedlock in the U.S. to a complex variety of factors: the spread of abstinence-only-until-marriage sex education at American schools, a shift toward cultural conservatism among some teens and a growing fear among youngsters of contracting AIDS through promiscuity.Question: is it pedophilia for a forty year old man to have sex with a fourteen-year-old girl - or is it marriage? I was struck by these stats:

[Jameswolcott.com] James Wolcott: And unlike so many of the 101st Fighting Keyboarders, New Yorkers don't have the luxury of or inclination to demonize Arabs and Muslims and hat-tip Michelle Malkin or run sceered every time a couple of Them materialize in our visual field. Every time we step into a cab or enter a store, there's a good chance that the driver or manager may be Pakistani or Iranian or Iraqi or Palestinian and they don't represent the Other, they're fellow New Yorkers, we all have get on each nerves here as best we can, and if we wanted to hang around nothing but white people concerned about their car insurance and those noisy skateboarders who have no respect for private property we never would have moved here in the first place.

[Indcjournal.com] INDC Journal: They said, “We don’t care, we’re not going to be scared,” and they stuck their fingers in the purple ink. And a people who had known nothing but fear and oppression and dictatorship stood up and said, “I’m going to be treated like a human being, and I’m going to choose my own destiny.” A lot has gone wrong in Iraq — it’s embarrassing to not find weapons of mass destruction, and the ties to terrorism are widely disputed. But this is the good that will come from all this, a working democracy where before there had only been Saddam and Uday and Qusay.

 [No-pasaran.blogspot.com] ¡No Pasarán!: Michael Phillips on the <strike>religious</strike ...: «My point is that communism (with a small C) was a lefty value system that had several million Americans hewing to a “party line.” The party line replaced theism. Today the heirs to this system of thought still hew to a party line.

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