On Islam, there tends to be carelessness in painting with a wide brush. All religions have fanatic elements – the Islamic jihadists are many degrees more extreme.

On the privacy issue the opposite is equally interesting – conservatives say save the zygote, but once saved youre on your own. Unless of course you are convicted of a capital crime or you decide to join the military – then we may help you on your way to the next place.

The feminist movement is as important to our society as any other. Despite the fact that women are still not treated on equal terms, the one point you emphasized is choice. Prior to the feminist movement, there was no choice. Though I too see the shortcomings it has brought on society (ie, family, cost of living), society has yet to catch up – but the wealthy are taking advantage and making the choice to stay home (women and to a lesser degree men alike).

The best seller sounds like a Femi-Nazi. My response is choice – be happy you can make one.

When I say “fear of judgment” I mean anyone’s.

Tanstaafl’s point about privacy is interesting. Somehow liberals find killing an innocent unborn baby acceptable but killing a convicted murderer unacceptable.

And the personal freedoms that liberals prize, e.g., abortion, gay marriage, feminist movement, are eroding society, particularly the family.

What I just said is JUDGMENT, that’s what liberals hate most. Abortion, gay marriage, feminist movement are BAD and I’m not afraid to say it just because it may not be “politically correct.”

For instance, at first blush one would think that the feminist movement has helped women. But the reality is that it has hurt women and most importantly families themselves. Women entered the work force, our economy adjusted to that, and now most families can’t get by without a 2-person income. For most women, staying home to raise the children is a luxury they simply cannot afford. So the feminist movement has resulted in LIMITING choices for most women, not expanding them.

And it is children that are hurt most. There’s a whole generation of kids growing up who spend 10-12 hours of their waking day in the care of someone other than a parent. No wonder schools are encountering record numbers of discipline problems. The school is no substitute for the family.

It’s my understanding that famous feminists like Gloria Steinem are puzzled and angry why so many women who become doctors, lawyers, and other high paid professionals leave to stay home with their kids. Isn’t it interesting that when women become wealthy enough to have CHOICE they choose to raise their children? This choice has been taken away from less affluent woment thanks to the feminist movement. Apparently, Gloria sees this as a betrayal to all the women who gave up having their own kids so that they could “crack” the glass ceiling and pave the way for these women to follow. God forbid they make a different choice and decide to stay home with their kids. There’s even a current best seller out right now that makes the case that women who get advanced degrees and stay home are hurting society and other women. Unreal.

One would think that feminism should stand for the right of women to make ANY choice about their livelihoods, but not to the National Organization for Women. NOW won’t even acknowledge stay-at-home moms as any kind of a valid choice. Their organization will not write of them or speak of them except to ridicule and shame them for not “working.”

So here at last is a personal freedom that the left doesn’t support — the choice to stay at home and mother my own children.

Liberal is an overplayed description of people who dont fall in line with the current conservative thinking.

The tangibility of freedom is not limited to land and cash, particularly those who have neither (some would call that entire class – liberals), but to unquantifiable and unqualifiable freedoms you both allude to – religiuos, personal, privacy, speech and judgement.

Is this the same phactoid that claims islam is intolerant of any other religion – convert or die? When you say “religion” – do you mean “Jew” or “Christian”?

Fear of judgement? Whose? God’s?
“Those who are religious believe in right and wrong.” So, its ok to kill people but killing a few hundred human cells with the potential for being a person is immoral, deviant and wrong.

There is a sh#tload of “religious” politicians who dont know the difference between right and wrong. (and a few Catholic priests, too) to name a few.

Regarding the post specifically, New York is on Orange alert infinitum, the Magnificent Miami 7 could be construed as nothing less than political, Zarqawi was the most underplayed political turn Ive seen – talk about a missed opp, NoKo and Iran are constant reminders of failing foreign policy (extending back to the Carter years) – no political points here, and the NYC tunnel threat was a LEAK! Where is the public outcry to bury the Daily News for leaking the story – it was an ACTIVE investigation and bad guys got away. In the same day they were still looking to bury the NY times for their reporting…

If we look at the world thru the political rhetoric on either side, there is no need to get up, just pray for the Rapture…

The left-jihadi connection is as meaningful as the right-fascist connection. Been there done that.

Look at what “privacy” means to them. It doesn’t mean private property. It doesn’t mean you get to keep what you earn. It means women can scrape out babies they don’t want. It means sociopaths be left alone to make their plans. It means celebrating all sorts of deviant behavior. God forbid anyone should say this crap is eroding society. What are you, some kind of sexist, facist, homophobe? Well, they are at least capable of judging others.