The Next Wedge Issue? And O'Reilly a C-and-R Advocate?
The next political wedge issue may be brewing now in the state that ranks, populationwise, No. 46 among 50: South Dakota, where legislators are pushing through a bill that would ban most abortions (today's burstiest phrase) for the state's 770,883 residents.
News of the bill's passage is found in seven of today's top links and six of today's most-cited news stories. State Sen. Julie Bartling, the bill's sponsor, is today's burstiest person, followed at No. 2 by Kate Looby, director of the state's only abortion clinic. "The Supreme Court has been loaded and they are ready," observes one LiveJournaler. The Centrist blogger invites all South Dakotans to Massachusetts as an alternative. Funny, says the native New Wisdom blogger, how a state can move into the future and past at the same time.
Did Bill O'Reilly REALLY say that?
Media Matters is today's No. 12 most-cited news item for featuring Bill O'Reilly's newest (and verbatim) proposal for an Iraq war policy: "the only solution to this is to hand over everything to the Iraqis as fast as humanly possible" because "[t]here are so many nuts in the country -- so many crazies -- that we can't control them." Isn't that this? Is he, as the Moderate Left blogger suggests, embracing his inner liberal?
Issues in perspective
A BlogPulse trend graph highlights what's on blogger's minds when it comes to the day's pressing issues:
Posted by Sue MacDonald at February 24, 2006 10:50 AM
