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The [Wednesday] PapersNow that Gatorgate is over, I'm going to try to ease myself back into the news which has been piling up over here due to procrastination, boredom, depression, frustration, and general so-sick-of-it-iveness. Fortunately, given the heat wave moving in, I'll be working from the comfort of the Beachwood's Bucktown Benny Bureau today through Tuesday. Great timing, Dr. Nick! - No Words
- Gag Rule Reflux "The administration said it will move forward with its new family planning overhaul, which critics deride as an abortion 'gag rule,' as it faces ongoing legal challenges from nearly two dozen states and organizations, including Planned Parenthood, the largest single recipient of funding in the program, known as Title X. States and groups opposing the new rules say the policy creates serious gaps in access for the roughly 4 million women who depend on the $250 million-plus program for birth control, cancer screenings and other health services . . . "Planned Parenthood, which serves more than 40 percent of the nation's Title X patients, confirmed Monday night it won't comply with the new rules. The group said Its clinics will start using their own emergency funds while it continues to fight the administration in court." * In Illinois, Planned Parenthood will lose more than $3 million in funding, according to Crain's. Planned Parenthood of Illinois has been preparing for such a rule since President Donald Trump took office, spokeswoman Julie Lynn said. Will they at least be there until the next election? * Also, I suspect Planned Parenthoods in many other states don't have the kind of emergency funds they do in Illinois, but maybe that's where the national organization comes in. * Family Planning Clinics No Longer Allowed To Family Plan. - The violent death of Eric Garner in New York City five years ago was captured on a cellphone camera for all the world to see. As a New York City police officer pulled him to the sidewalk and applied an illegal chokehold, Garner's last words were also recorded and quickly became a nationwide rallying cry for police reform. I'm not sure the analogy holds, but the FOP's hypocrisy certainly does. - Remembering John Paul Stevens Stevens was born on April 20, 1920, in Chicago, to a prosperous family that survived financial ruin in the 1930s. In the lobby of his family's downtown Chicago hotel, the young John Stevens crossed paths with the likes of Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh. He lived his youth through the Jazz Age, the beginning and the end of Prohibition. He was, famously, in the stands of Wrigley Field with his father when Babe Ruth hit his called shot during the 1932 World Series. * "Dissenting in Bush v. Gore he wrote - presciently - about the public loss of confidence in an impartial court: The [majority opinion] can only lend credence to the most cynical appraisal of the work of judges throughout the land. It is confidence in the men and women who administer the judicial system that is the true backbone of the rule of law. Time will one day heal the wound to that confidence that will be inflicted by today's decision. One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's Presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the Nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law. * "His most recent book, The Making of a Justice: Reflections on My First 94 Years, was published this past May. In an interview just a couple of months ago, upon publication of that book, he expressed deep distress at the current political discourse: 'You wake up in the morning and you wonder what's happened.'" * In the original, the link to the book was a link to Amazon. I've replaced that with a link to the publisher instead. I've long been annoyed by how book links to Amazon have become the default - I've been guilty of it here, too. Perhaps mostly it's because an Amazon link comes up first on searches. But why give Amazon the free referral? I wonder how much revenue - I mean, it can't be much, but I wonder - Amazon gets from links in news stories. Some sites, I know, acknowledge that they have referral relationships with Amazon and get a teeny, tiny slice of the pie from any sales that derive from such links, but I bet most are just simply organic. I'm trying to change my ways here on the Beachwood as I go, and I implore others to do so as well. - Anyway, John Paul Stevens in the Beachwood . . . * May 9, 2008: "Lake County - fondly referred to by its denizens simply as 'the Region' - is where I was born and raised," Mike DeBonis wrote early this morning on the website of the Washington City Paper. "And it's pretty much where I got my conception of what urban politics is all about. This was an unfortunate flub by Stevens, by the way, as described, again, by Slate. After all, Stevens also writes in the same decision that "The only kind of voter fraud that SEA 483 addresses is in-person voter impersonation at polling places. The record contains no evidence of any such fraud actually occurring in Indiana at any time in its history." * January 31, 2017: Kill the Lawyers,' A Line Misinterpreted. Justice John Paul Stevens, dissenting in Walters v. National Association of Radiation Survivors: - ChicagoReddit Is anyone else not happy with how ABC7Chicago.com lays out their news stories? from r/chicago This happened in Florida. Aren't any penises being cut off in Chicago? * Local TV news is often quite non-local. As long as there is video of violence or titillation, they'll use it. They are not serious news organizations and should not be treated as such. They exploit "news" as entertainment - including above all, crime news. It's immoral. But no one covers them; there isn't a true media beat in town that actually covers the content of these shops. And so it goes. - ChicagoGram - ChicagoTube 1970 Ford Mustang Boss 302 - Gateway Classic Cars #1631 Chicago - BeachBook 'Somewhere People Just Accepted What's Going On As Normal.' - TweetWood
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