Nazi, Al Qaida, Stalin, NAMBLA. These are only a few of the comparisons the likes of Bill O'Reilly have drawn when describing Dr. George Tiller. The women whom Dr. Tiller treated use other words to describe their physician. Compassionate, gentle, kind. And most of all, courageous.

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Barack Obama has finally cinched the nomination, and although we both in the end supported him, my mother is feeling none of my euphoria.

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At dinner on Tuesday (Fried Chicken Night at Rudy's Can't Fail Café) my husband and I discovered that we are under surveillance. We had fought the night before--neither a rare nor a common occurrence for us. We see eye to eye on almost every question of importance that arises in...

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