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...seems to represent the woman, the outlaw, the stranger, the barbarian," she writes. "He plays with the feeble inventions of human order. Women become freer, more powerful and dangerous than men. Roles are reversed, the king becomes a woman; magic overpowers logic...
While some of Forbes' rhetoric has changed, his views still make him unacceptable as the standard-bearer for that wing of the party. He will not push for a constitutional amendment to outlaw abortion altogether. "You have to recognize that in a democracy, people are not with you yet, and therefore you have to persuade," he says. So leaders like James Dobson of Focus on the Family, who met with him one on one, come away disappointed. As Dobson's lieutenant Gary Bauer puts it, "We're way too far down the road to be satisfied with snappy applause lines...
...basis of mere probabilities. Yet how much do these distinctions matter? If insurers and employers discriminate against people with an increased risk of getting some dreadful disease, they are making a rational assessment of probable future costs. We as a society may decide that such discrimination is unfair and outlaw it, but it is no more unfair than discriminating against a person with the disease itself...
Neighbor said that the technology, though expensive, is vital. "The state is preparing to outlaw punch cards, and optical software is the only alternative that works given our voting system," Neighbor said...
...narrow scope of the specific case is perhaps founded. In the case Hopwood vs. the University of Texas last year, the U.S. Third District Court's decision transcended the question of the case-whether the quota system employed by the University of Texas Law School was Constitutional-to outlaw any kind of preferences in admissions whatsoever...