I haven’t posted anything about Haggard here, so I’ll leave you with a few words from Trevor Blake on American Samizdat:

I advocate the decriminalization of drug use among adults and sex work among adults. I don’t care whether or not Pastor Haggard used drugs or bought sex. I think it is generally wrong to ‘out’ [...]

Democrats erased the Republican Senate majority Wednesday with a cliffhanger victory in Montana, hours after taking control of the House in an election that delivered a rebuke of GOP scandal, the Iraq war and the course of a nation.
With Democrats now assured of 50 Senate seats, the battle for outright control came down to Virginia, [...]

South Dakota voters overturned on Tuesday a state abortion ban that supporters had championed as the best chance to challenge a 33-year-old U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing the procedure.
Full Story: Reuters.
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President Bush said Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is stepping down and former CIA Director and Texas A&M President Robert Gates will take over at the Pentagon and in prosecuting the war in Iraq.
In a news conference in Washington today, Bush congratulated Democrats on their election victories and said he looks forward to working with [...]

Always good to see lawmakers held accountable:

A lawmaker resigned from the Florida Legislature on Wednesday, bowing to pressure to quit because of messages filled with obscenities and a racial slur that were left on a colleague’s voice mail.

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New Jersey’s highest court ruled yesterday that same-sex couples are entitled to the same rights as heterosexual couples under state marriage statutes.
The court left the task of naming the newly recognized right — whether marriage, civil union, or something else — up to the New Jersey Legislature, which must vote within 180 days, leaving open [...]

The Michael J. Fox pro-stem cell research ads are working:

* Among all respondents, support for stem cell research increased from 78% prior to viewing the ad, to 83% after viewing the ad. Support among Democrats increased from 89% to 93%, support among Republicans increased from 66% to 68% and support among [...]

Ory’s now reporting their first victory - a small step, but an exciting one nonetheless - Kenyan MP Ukur Yattani has started answering constituent questions on his MP page on the site. His first post corrected information about his educational qualifications, but subsequent exchanges have gotten into substantive questions about gunfire between Ethiopian “bandits” and [...]

The online interactive reference site Wikipedia announced Tuesday that the site had apparently been made accessible in China, after being blocked for just over a year by the country’s government.
Wikipedia reported on its site that it had received word from multiple users in the country on Chinese-forums.com that the site had been restored, as first [...]

A new computer-aided analysis may help detect the earliest signs of cell damage caused by Alzheimer’s disease.
The system is able to analyse the extent of damage in areas of grey matter, where brain cells are tightly packed together.
The researchers say it could lead to earlier diagnosis of a disease that can be treated most effectively [...]