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Deputy U.S. Attorney General nominee linked to porn industry
Washington D.C., Feb 5, 2009 / 06:49 am (CNA).- President Barack Obama’s selection of David Ogden to become Deputy Attorney General is being criticized because of Ogden’s links to the pornography industry.
A brief from the Chicago-based pro-family group Fidelis reports that Ogden has represented pornography businesses such as Playboy Enterprises and Penthouse Magazine.
He opposed the Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000 as counsel of record for an amicus brief supporting the American Library Association in a case that challenged mandatory anti-obscenity internet filters in public libraries.
In the 1986 case American Council for the Blind v. Boorstin, he successfully sought a court order forcing the Library of Congress to use taxpayer funds to print Playboy Magazine’s articles in Braille.
Ogden also successfully challenged laws requiring pornography producers to personally verify that models were over 18 at the time their materials were made. According to the Fidelis brief, he argued that the decision would “burden too heavily and infringe too deeply on the right to produce First Amendment protected material.”
In other areas, Ogden has argued for homosexuals in the military and an unlimited abortion license.
In an amicus brief for the 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey decision which reaffirmed Roe v. Wade’s mandating of permissive abortion laws, Ogden argued that abortion “rarely causes or exacerbates psychological or emotional problems.”
“The few women who do experience negative psychological responses after abortion appear to be those with preexisting emotional problems,” he continued.
He argued that evidence shows abortion is more likely to make women “experience feelings of relief and happiness” and claimed childbirth and childrearing or adoption may pose “concomitant (if not greater) risks or adverse psychological effects” compared to the effects of abortion.
In a Wednesday press release, Brian Burch, President of Fidelis, called Ogden “a hired gun from Playboy and ACLU.”
“Ogden’s record is nothing short of obscene,” he charged, adding: “David Ogden has collected checks from Playboy and Penthouse to fight reasonable protections for parents and children from pornography.”
“He can’t run from his long record of opposing common sense laws protecting families, women, and children. The United States Senate has a responsibility to the American people to ensure that Mr. Ogden’s full record is fully reviewed before any vote on his nomination.”
“A vast majority of Americans support parental notification before a minor’s abortion and protecting kids from Internet pornography in our libraries,” Burch continued. “Yet David Ogden has fought tooth and nail against these common sense laws protecting our children from harm. At a time when America’s families are under increasing assault, Mr. Ogden is a dangerous choice for a position whose responsibilities include the enforcement of our nation’s laws.”
According to a July 2008 essay in New Yorker Magazine Ogden is not the only one with ties to the pornography industry.
The essay reported that Christine Hefner, who then headed Playboy Enterprises, played a role in supporting Barack Obama’s political career as early as 2002. Her support began after she met him at a gathering of an influential Chicago women’s group called Ladies Who Lunch.
“I was very proud to be able to introduce him during the Senate race to a lot of people who have turned out to be important and valuable to him, not just here but in New York and L.A.,” Hefner told New Yorker writer Ryan Lizza.
“I try and think about people who I think should know him,” Hefner said.
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In the 1986 case American Council for the Blind v. Boorstin, he successfully sought a court order forcing the Library of Congress to use taxpayer funds to print Playboy Magazine’s articles in Braille.
LOL... streeeetch.......
sheesh... i'd show you some real porn but i doubt that i have to...
In a Wednesday press release, Brian Burch, President of Fidelis, called Ogden “a hired gun from Playboy and ACLU.”
the ACLU defended Rush limabaugh too.. which i think was mistake.
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Still Glass, the point is...FBI raids last week, tax evasion by others, all of these Obama appointees are a piece of work.
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the FBI is doing it's job... the raid last week was in the former offices of the appointee, but not for or after the appointee.
there's corruption everywhere. and the dems are not immune any more than the GOP...
the question is will the DOJ do it's job or not..
under Bush? the DOJ became a political tool... Gonzalez should prolly be prosecuted for some of the things he did. we have evidence here (thanks to you) that Obama is not telling the FBI to stay away...
rush was defended by the ACLU on the drug charges. they believed his medical records were private. IMO, his rants about how awful teh ACLU is are the reason they should have ignored his case...
they will defend him because they beleive in principles and not personalities..
we live in the age of the cult of personality and principles seem to be a thing of the past....
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh (search) probably never expected the American Civil Liberties Union (search) to become one of his staunch supporters.
But the privacy rights group was on his side Monday when its Florida branch filed a "friend-of-court" motion on behalf of Limbaugh arguing state officials were wrong in seizing his medical records for their drug probe.
"For many people, it may seem odd that the ACLU has come to the defense of Rush Limbaugh," ACLU of Florida Executive Director Howard Simon said in a released statement.
"But we have always said that the ACLU's real client is the Bill of Rights, and we will continue to safeguard the values of equality, fairness and privacy for everyone, regardless of race, economic status or political point of view," Simon said.
The ACLU contends that state law enforcement officers violated Limbaugh's privacy rights by taking possession of his medical records as part of their criminal investigation into the commentator's alleged "doctor-shopping" to feed his prescription-drug addiction. Investigators seized the records last month after discovering that Limbaugh received more than 2,000 painkillers, prescribed by four doctors, at a pharmacy near his Palm Beach mansion.
The ACLU said it was trying to "to vindicate every Floridian's fundamental right to privacy by ensuring that the state be required to comply" with the law.
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Obama: Just another politician except this is one who was raised in Chicago urban politics.
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Obama's organizing history may give few clues about what policies he would pursue as President, but Obama the presidential candidate still shows his roots--a faith in ordinary citizens, a quest for common ground and a pragmatic inclination toward defining issues in winnable ways. Even when Obama was an organizer, Augustine-Herron told him he would be the nation's first black President. Now the Rev. Alvin Love, whom Obama recruited to DCP, looks at his candidacy and says, "Everything I see reflects that community organizing experience. I see the consensus-building, his connection to people and listening to their needs and trying to find common ground. I think at his heart Barack is a community organizer. I think what he's doing now is that. It's just a larger community to be organized. "http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070416/moberg
Hes more about helping us to get on the right path..He has always been concerned about helping people,communities.etc..he needed to get into politics as a way to get a handle on the source of the problems and weed out the bad...read that article if you really care about what you speak..
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So what exactly would Obama's critics do differently? Nothing on the bailout side. Instead, they have settled for carping criticism of the stimulus package, playing games by nitpicking lesser-cost programs while ignoring the big items that most governors, be they Republican or Democrat, eagerly want. The great fear of the GOP seems to be that some of the stimulus program might actually prove helpful to struggling Americans, but the Republicans can't just come out of the closet and say so.
What they have picked up on instead is that Obama's tax cuts provide some redistribution of income to favor the rapidly disappearing middle class at the expense of the super-wealthy, who have profited wildly from Bush tax cuts. Which brings us back to Gingrich's complaint that Obama is importing European socialism. If that means a system of governance in which a robust middle class is rewarded for work with a strong social safety net supported by higher taxes on the most affluent, well, let's get it on. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090323/scheer
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at this point, the whiney, harping critics don't really matter. They're like kids, outside in the yard, jibbering, while we adults in the house have business to tend...
quote:The great fear of the GOP seems to be that some of the stimulus program might actually prove helpful to struggling Americans, but the Republicans can't just come out of the closet and say so.
That's ridiculous! The big difference is that conservatives want to teach people to fish. The socialists want to give people a little bite of fish each day so that they are dependent on the government.
quote:What they have picked up on instead is that Obama's tax cuts provide some redistribution of income to favor the rapidly disappearing middle class at the expense of the super-wealthy, who have profited wildly from Bush tax cuts.
Also ridiculous! Obama hasn't done ANYTHING to help the middle class (unless you consider temporarily getting an extra $13 in your pay check to be "favor" from the Messiah). Yeah, that will help the middle class! LOL! Maybe if they save up for two weeks, they can go out for pizza!!!!!
quote:Which brings us back to Gingrich's complaint that Obama is importing European socialism. If that means a system of governance in which a robust middle class is rewarded for work with a strong social safety net supported by higher taxes on the most affluent, well, let's get it on.
Europe doesn't have a robust middle class. They have a robust class of deadbeats, which is why Europe has become irrelevant and impotent on the world stage. Work? What are you talking about. Obama is not promoting work - he's promoting welfare and increasing handouts for those that are too lazy to work! How is pushing a cap and trade system that will cost the middle class MUCH MORE in energy costs "helping"? How is spending trillions of dollars that will need to be repaid by the middle class "helping"? How is increasing taxes on the rich and on business "helping" when that will result in even more jobs moving overseas? Obama is an socialist and he is going to DESTROY the country!
Don't worry though Jordan, there will be plenty of handouts for you if you're content to sit home and watch soap operas all day, every day. Enjoy your new "middle class" life!
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quote:The great fear of the GOP seems to be that some of the stimulus program might actually prove helpful to struggling Americans, but the Republicans can't just come out of the closet and say so.
That's ridiculous! The big difference is that conservatives want to teach people to fish. The socialists want to give people a little bite of fish each day so that they are dependent on the government.
quote:What they have picked up on instead is that Obama's tax cuts provide some redistribution of income to favor the rapidly disappearing middle class at the expense of the super-wealthy, who have profited wildly from Bush tax cuts.
Also ridiculous! Obama hasn't done ANYTHING to help the middle class (unless you consider temporarily getting an extra $13 in your pay check to be "favor" from the Messiah). Yeah, that will help the middle class! LOL! Maybe if they save up for two weeks, they can go out for pizza!!!!!
quote:Which brings us back to Gingrich's complaint that Obama is importing European socialism. If that means a system of governance in which a robust middle class is rewarded for work with a strong social safety net supported by higher taxes on the most affluent, well, let's get it on.
Europe doesn't have a robust middle class. They have a robust class of deadbeats, which is why Europe has become irrelevant and impotent on the world stage. Work? What are you talking about. Obama is not promoting work - he's promoting welfare and increasing handouts for those that are too lazy to work! How is pushing a cap and trade system that will cost the middle class MUCH MORE in energy costs "helping"? How is spending trillions of dollars that will need to be repaid by the middle class "helping"? How is increasing taxes on the rich and on business "helping" when that will result in even more jobs moving overseas? Obama is an socialist and he is going to DESTROY the country!
Don't worry though Jordan, there will be plenty of handouts for you if you're contend to sit home and watch soap operas all day, every day. Enjoy your new "middle class" life!
"at this point, the whiney, harping critics don't really matter. They're like kids, outside in the yard, jibbering, while we adults in the house have business to tend..."
Yep, jabbering at the top of their lungs again, still playing the standard right-wing game of talking louder and interrupting so as to keep any opinion contrary to the word from one the masters, Fat Rush, Hanity, Coulter, Chanay, etc., from being heard.
It's wrong to say it gets old .......... it GOT GOT OLD years ago and it insults intelligence, even more so when it comes from a pure jerk!
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quote:That's ridiculous! The big difference is that conservatives want to teach people to fish. The socialists want to give people a little bite of fish each day so that they are dependent on the government.
We true conservatives fight for policies that will allow people to safely eat fish again.
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Too often, just as with picking a religion, people that have no idea what it is all about claim to be conservative when they aren't even close, just because it is what they hear all day and they feel like fitting in. Peer pressure doesn't stop with rampant acne.
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one thing I do know is..and I'll say it again..
I trust Obama with trying to help america and pointing the right way and not concern himself with personal agendas,.... WAAAY more than ccm,pms,ann,hannity,or any of the talking heads,for that matter, or me or beeg or glass or tex..no offense boys..
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quote:Originally posted by Propertymanager: That's ridiculous! The big difference is that conservatives want to teach people to fish. The socialists want to give people a little bite of fish each day so that they are dependent on the government.
you're FOS,
the GOP took over and the average household income in America went down. that's EVERYBODY...
the top 1% household income went up 300% but overall everybody's income went down... the top 1% whose income went up kept the overall decrease from being even worse. then, even they lost almost half of their savings... teach people to fish my ass, you're nothing but a rubber worm salesman.
i know, now you say Bush is a socialist, but you didn't say that until a month before he was leaving office. after 8 whole years.
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quote:Originally posted by Propertymanager: That's ridiculous! The big difference is that conservatives want to teach people to fish. The socialists want to give people a little bite of fish each day so that they are dependent on the government.
you're FOS,
the GOP took over and the average household income in America went down. that's EVERYBODY...
the top 1% household income went up 300% but overall everybody's income went down... the top 1% whose income went up kept the overall decrease from being even worse. then, even they lost almost half of their savings... teach people to fish my ass, you're nothing but a rubber worm salesman.
i know, now you say Bush is a socialist, but you didn't say that until a month before he was leaving office. after 8 whole years.
Plastic and rubber worms are useful baits and it's impossible to believe anything useful could be sponsored, fostered, or offered by him. I think useful is outside his mean nasty demeanor.
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quote:i know, now you say Bush is a socialist, but you didn't say that until a month before he was leaving office. after 8 whole years.
Bush acted like a RINO until just before he left office, when he put his socialist leanings on display for all to see.
I find it interesting that you lefties once again posted your usual hate-filled name-calling and gibberish, but no one attempted to refute the fact that Obama is NOT helping the middle class.
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quote:i know, now you say Bush is a socialist, but you didn't say that until a month before he was leaving office. after 8 whole years.
Bush acted like a RINO until just before he left office, when he put his socialist leanings on display for all to see.
I find it interesting that you lefties once again posted your usual hate-filled name-calling and gibberish, but no one attempted to refute the fact that Obama is NOT helping the middle class.
It doesn't need refuting, dumbbutt, like it isn't necessary to refute every fool that wants to claim that Babe Ruth was a poor hitter or that Einstein's theory of relativity is wrong.
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quote:i know, now you say Bush is a socialist, but you didn't say that until a month before he was leaving office. after 8 whole years.
Bush acted like a RINO until just before he left office, when he put his socialist leanings on display for all to see.
I find it interesting that you lefties once again posted your usual hate-filled name-calling and gibberish, but no one attempted to refute the fact that Obama is NOT helping the middle class.
well lesseee? Obama has been in office for what? 55 day or so? i stick to facts as much as possible.. it's a wee bit soon to be deciding how he's done.. or if what he's done will help..
my general attitude is that the govt can't really help th e oconmy, but they can hurt it bad. and Bush's 8 years of so-called conservative policy destroyed it
you on the other hand just cough up furballs over and over....
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Bush 2 is a free loading fascist hate him from day one.
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quote:well lesseee? Obama has been in office for what? 55 day or so? i stick to facts as much as possible.. it's a wee bit soon to be deciding how he's done.. or if what he's done will help..
You're kidding - right? It's certainly not too soon to judge whether his policies will help the middle class. How is pushing a cap and trade system that will cost the middle class MUCH MORE in energy costs "helping"? How is spending trillions of dollars that will need to be repaid by the middle class "helping"? How is increasing taxes on the rich and on business "helping" when that will result in even more jobs moving overseas?
The answer: Obama is NOT helping the middle class. He's taking money FROM the middle class and giving it to the lazy.
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quote:well lesseee? Obama has been in office for what? 55 day or so? i stick to facts as much as possible.. it's a wee bit soon to be deciding how he's done.. or if what he's done will help..
You're kidding - right? It's certainly not too soon to judge whether his policies will help the middle class. How is pushing a cap and trade system that will cost the middle class MUCH MORE in energy costs "helping"? How is spending trillions of dollars that will need to be repaid by the middle class "helping"? How is increasing taxes on the rich and on business "helping" when that will result in even more jobs moving overseas?
The answer: Obama is NOT helping the middle class. He's taking money FROM the middle class and giving it to the lazy.
Then you stand to reap a fortune!
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I make the same amount of money whether the rent comes from an honest, hard-working lower-middle class tenant or a lazy deadbeat getting government handouts.
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quote:Originally posted by Propertymanager: I make the same amount of money whether the rent comes from an honest, hard-working lower-middle class tenant or a lazy deadbeat getting government handouts.
I object to AIG stuffing the pockets of its favored and I object to you siphoning off funds from the treasury. Such funding should be never be allowed to elitist scum and social deadbeats. You and your kind are like massive ugly scars across the face of a child.
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Keep it up pm your turn in the barrel might be comming
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quote:well lesseee? Obama has been in office for what? 55 day or so? i stick to facts as much as possible.. it's a wee bit soon to be deciding how he's done.. or if what he's done will help..
You're kidding - right? It's certainly not too soon to judge whether his policies will help the middle class. How is pushing a cap and trade system that will cost the middle class MUCH MORE in energy costs "helping"? How is spending trillions of dollars that will need to be repaid by the middle class "helping"? How is increasing taxes on the rich and on business "helping" when that will result in even more jobs moving overseas?
The answer: Obama is NOT helping the middle class. He's taking money FROM the middle class and giving it to the lazy.
judge? you judge? LOL.. now that is funny.
you don't anything to make a judgement from.
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You should care Jordan. YOU should care that Obama is DESTROYING the middle class, which is in direct contradiction to his campaign promises. YOU should care that everyone in the middle class is getting a tax increase instead of a tax cut as Obama promised. YOU should care that your gas and fuel bills will drastically increase if Obama gets his cap and trade program through. YOU should care that the YOUR tax dollars are expanding the welfare state and that YOU are paying me rent for the lazy!
quote:Such funding should be never be allowed to elitist scum and social deadbeats. You and your kind are like massive ugly scars across the face of a child.
You're funny Bdgee! You and your leftie friends are the very people that are providing that money to me, so that lazy deadbeats can sit home all day long drinking beer and watching their big screen tv's!
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Ain't it strange. Pm is trying to hide his lust for the very wealthy and now by claiming he is singing a song of saving the middle class. Poor dumb bigot.
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quote:Originally posted by bdgee: Ain't it strange. Pm is trying to hide his lust for the very wealthy and now by claiming he is singing a song of saving the middle class. Poor dumb bigot.
yeah i noticed that too..
must be a new RNC bulletin out...
"current strategy total failure, must appeal to the middle again, somehow"...
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I have no lust for the very wealthy, however, I do have a genuine dislike for having my money subsidize the lazy. I believe that people have the right to be lazy, but they should suffer the consequences of their choices - WITHOUT ANY SUBSIDY FROM ME!
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Just about ever racial bigot I ever knew claimed he wasn't. They all seem to have some sort of contrived excuse that supposedly justifies their hatred and nastiness.
PM likes to think he is being rational and conservative, when in fact, whether or not he can see it, he truly hates anyone that isn't rich, simply because hey aren't rich and so far as being a conservative or being rational, he has no sense of what either might be. I suspect he is like the guy with sexual preferences he feels he has to hide and so is the first to volunteer for a night scouting for queers in the local bars to beat the sh-t out of. Poor Pm wants so bad not to be a common folk.
PM, being a tight assed stingy jerk will not let you into the upper class or the welthy.
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