Dr Laura has only one child. She doesn't understand breeders. Some of us like sitting at home with our children around, talking to them, watching with them, teaching them. If your children are not around, you find someone where you can sit with their children, or you visit your grandchildren.

I am watching a 4 year old eat ravioli right now, as she watches football, and I listen to it.

It will be the same civil war that happened in the late sixties and early seventies. Don't think ACW, think the IRA in the UK and northern Ireland or the SLA or Black Panthers.

And sure, I can easily see the Left, if they lose, trying to start it up again.

You would think they would lose, as they did the first time, but the establishment left is much more leftist now then it was then... so who knows?

True, ray, they'll try to start it again. They already have. However, without the specter of the Vietnam War to drive young people into their camp, they're going to have a hard time attracting more than a tiny fringe. I expect them to become far more shrill if McCain wins... it should be fun to watch, if nothing else.

"I'm unable to discern..."

Add to the list of possibility that you don't understand the issues of school sex education.

Consider the possibility that it is not the mechanics of condom use that are objectionable, but rather it is the values (or more likely, the lack of them) that are taught along with the mechanics.

I don't know what the curriculum is now, but in the past, we not only taught how to use a hammer, we taught when it was appropriate to use a hammer.

You can see it today in Pakistan and Thailand and Ukraine. Thank the spirits I live in peaceful, free, and united China. Free especially of loony dim libs. We went thru that phase. Never again

I just hope we institute a formal feminine hygiene education program. If they don't teach it in schools, girls will be bleeding all over the place never having known what a tampon is.

After all, its an uncomfortable subject. Its critical that public school teachers(the smartest humans on the planet)be relied upon to impart this information. Parents simply aren't up to the task.

Know what I'm sayin'?

Phyllis Chesler is incorrect. The Culture Wars will intensify if Obama is elected as the radical Left has been even more enthusiastic about imposing their views on the public through the law than the Christian Right. Though Obama tries to hide it, from the lips of his mother to Wright and Ayers his associations and sympathies are and have been with the Radical Left. Witness the talk about the fairness doctrine and the desire to increase the reach of hate speech legislation. I believe the Religious Right's political power has waned as evidenced by Pat Robertson's willingness to overlook Guiliani's pro-choice position-- not to mention Rick Warren's rise to evangelical leadership. It had become more important for "his side" to retain political power than to pick someone whose views aligned with his on one of the defining issues of the Culture Wars. This does not mean that their power overall has decreased just that their ability to drive the political process has shrunk considerably. This is a good thing in my opinion. Political activists tend to hang around long after they've outworn their welcome. Like an artist unable to finish his work because he lacks the discipline to deny the urge to dable one more time to perfect it, too often they don't walk in their own victories and begin to poison the well they initially tried to heal. However if under threat by more liberal legislation from an Obama administration with solid control of Congress and thus 2 new liberal Supremes they will be galvanized again to enter politics as they were before.

I think that most Americans (regardless of their individual tastes) reject such tribalist nonsense

I disagree. The Politically Correct Multiculturalism that the left pushes into every sphere of politics and public discourse is explicitly tribalist and explicitly intended to break down our cultural and political institutions.

Well, I donīt even know whether their values are so different from each other, not even they really got something we would call values (I am talking about politicians). They are driven only be egoistical issues, seeking for power. Just tell me why no one of the presidents would forbid gun possesion? Because of the right to self-defense? Pff, there must be much trust in the abilities of american authorities. But thatīs not true, itīs just because of the gun industrie. and thatīs only one example. Well, glad to not live in the US.

Libertarianism is a very big tent because people can have any beliefs they want as long as they don't use government to enforce those beliefs.

Thus you get an anti-abortion Palin vetoing an anti-abortion measure.

Lead by example - not force. I like it.

Unfortunately, it's not a free country, just more free than the competition.

A free country doesn't declare periodic wars upon segments of its citizenry, looting and incarcerating them for the pleasure of a real or purported majority.