Day December 9, 2004

1. Get that abortion you’ve always wanted.2. Drink a nice clean glass of water.3. Cash your social security check.4. See a doctor of your own choosing.5. Spend quality time with your draft-age child Visit Syria, or any foreign country for…

Police chief in Samarra resigns The police chief of the previously pacified city says he’s resigning after attacks on his home and car and an attempt to kidnap his son at school. I guess it never really was “pacified”, eh? US…

From OfByandFor.org Roger Cohen (NYT): The War on Terror: An Obsession the World Doesn’t Share The United States has a strategic problem:its war on terror, unlike its long fight against Communism, is not universally seen as the pivotal global struggle…