"...former employees of Sproul & Associates (operating under the name Voters Outreach of America), a firm hired by the Republican National Committee to register voters, told a Nevada TV station that their supervisors systematically tore up Democratic registrations. The accusations are backed by physical evidence and appear credible. Officials have begun a criminal investigation into reports of similar actions by Sproul in Oregon.

Republicans claim, of course, that they did nothing wrong - and that besides, Democrats do it, too. But there haven't been any comparably credible accusations against Democratic voter-registration organizations. And there is a pattern of Republican efforts to disenfranchise Democrats, by any means possible. [read full article]"

"The choice for ESC research is not between "destroying life" and not destroying life. The choice is between using the enormous store of frozen zygotes that will otherwise be tossed out for promising scientific research that can help millions of people over the next few decades, or simply tossing them out. That's the only choice we face. So to accuse Christopher Reeve of wanting to "deny life to others" to cure his disease is irrational. But then, the entire position against [Embryonic Stem Cell] research is irrational. Bush's absurd decision to restrict federal funding on ESC research to only those cell lines that had previously been cultivated, it must be said, has not done one thing to 'preserve life'. Not one of those little sets of barely differentitated cells sitting in the deep freeze that he shows such concern for has been 'saved' by his policy. Not one more life exists today than would have existed had his policy not been put in place. In other words, his policy has done precisely nothing tangible to 'preserve life', it is merely a symbolic policy to appease people who have been conned into thinking that this research has something to do with abortion and being 'pro-life'." [read all]