Sen. Dave Schultheis, R-Colorado Springs, on Wednesday voted againt Senate Bill 179, which requires pregnant women to undergo HIV testing to ensure steps can be taken to reduce transferring the disease to the baby if the mother is infected...

..."What I'm hoping is that yes, that person may have AIDS, have it seriously as a baby and when they grow up, but the mother will begin to feel guilt as a result of that.

The family will see the negative consequences of that promiscuity and it may make a number of people over the coming years begin to realize that there are negative consequences and maybe they should adjust their behavior."  [Emphasis added]

We invented solar technology, but we've fallen behind countries like Germany and Japan in producing it.

and

I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it.  

Call it the power of love.

A female wolf has wandered more than 1,000 miles through five states in search of a mate and is now in Colorado's Eagle County, wildlife officials in Colorado and Montana said Wednesday.

Obama to Seek Higher Tax on Affluent to Pay for Health Care

Ken Tucker reviewed it on NPR's Fresh Air yesterday.

Indeed, the three-paragraph State Department press release on Ross's job was so vague on specifics that State Department spokesman Robert Wood soon found himself besieged by questions about what tasks and indeed what countries exactly were included in Ross's portfolio.

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On Wednesday, Wood provided more clarity on the list of countries that fall into Ross's portfolio -- Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Yemen, apparently -- but it was hard to escape the impression that State is diplomatically flummoxed about how to describe Ross's job.

Laura Rozen

Must be this, imo:

Other sources suggested the U.S. government was sensitive to Iran's perception that Ross, a former senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, is a pro-Israel hawk whose writings on U.S. policy toward Iran have suggested a high degree of continuity with the Bush administration's approach of carrots and sticks. ...

Roland Burris, having lied his way into the U.S. Senate, now won't resign. In theory, a perjury investigation could alter his plans--as could some action by the Senate Ethics Committee. So, we suppose, could something mundane, such as Burris' burdensome legal bills. Or, less likely, an attack of Sudden Onset Humility.

But until something dislodges him--did we forget to include the possibility of a special election?--we Illinoisans enjoy a dubious distinction: We're represented by the most isolated member of the Senate. We can't know whether senators offended by his deceits will demand his expulsion. We do, however, know that Burris will have no clout, no allies, no influence beyond his raw vote, in serving the crucial needs of Illinoisans.

Burris does, though, serve a valuable purpose: His tainted tenure, for however long it lasts, will remind all of us of how badly Democratic leaders in Washington and Springfield botched the filling of President Barack Obama's former Senate seat.

Sen. Dick Durbin has not-so-subtly tried to distance himself from this expanding fiasco. Durbin laments, with innocent exasperation, that the citizens of his state are "bone-weary" of "the Blagojevich burlesque."

Not so fast, Senator. This burlesque has more than one high-stepping dancer.