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...During the press conference in which he admitted his affair, Mark Sanford warbled that he had broken "God's law," a sentiment that served only to emphasize the narcissism that had gotten him in trouble. Wrestling with God's law had apparently been the subject of many sessions of his Bible-study group, a seminar that may have spent a little too much time on the Song of Solomon, given Sanford's e-mailed encomium of his lover's physique: "I love the curves of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself...
...left to ensure that these kids grow up into estimable people once the Mark Sanfords and other marital frauds and casual sadists have jumped ship? The good among us, the ones who are willing to sacrifice the thrill of a love letter for the betterment of their children. "His career is not a concern of mine," says Jenny Sanford. "He'll be worrying about that, and I'll be worrying about my family and the character of my children." What we teach about the true meaning of marriage will determine a great deal about our fate...
...convention shall be prohibited from considering and proposing revisions to the Constitution that would affect (a) Property taxes associated with Proposition 13. (b) Any other direct increase in taxes." Yet for many liberals, modifying Proposition 13 would be one of the central reasons for holding a constitutional convention. Mark Paul, a scholar with the non-partisan New America Foundation, says, "It's silly to have a conversation about the future of California without talking about Proposition 13." (Watch a gay marriage wedding video...
...Tuesday, Obama himself sounded almost resigned that taxing health benefits is now front and center in the health-care debate. "This is something that's going to be debated in the House and the Senate," he told the Virginia audience. "[Virginia Senator] Mark Warner is going to have to weigh in on it. We're all going to have to weigh in on it." The President says he still wouldn't go as far as McCain proposed and completely eliminate the current exclusion on taxation of employer-provided health benefits. (McCain would have offset that with a tax credit...
...Russia had been planning its ban for some time, with parliament passing legislation in 2006 that would restrict gambling to four remote areas as of July 1 this year. But Ukrainian lawmakers were slower off the mark and only sprang into action in May, after nine people were killed in a fire at a slot-machine hall in Dnipropetrovsk in eastern Ukraine. After the fire brought national attention to an industry that was already widely frowned upon, lawmakers pounced. The legislation they passed places a temporary ban on gambling while plans are drawn up to restrict gambling to special zones...