New Trommetter Times

Grabbed from my blogmarks.

Pharmacists Don’t Want to Sell Morning After Pill Despite FDA Approval
The Food and Drug Administration may have approved sales of the morning after pill over the counter, but some pharmacists are reluctant to sell the drug. The agency’s move to sell Plan B without a prescription may expand the nationwide debate about a conscience clause for pharmacists to allow them to opt out of dispensing the drug.
()() The widespread practice of abortion as birth control in the United States will end with a whimper. We won’t need the big bang of a Roe v. Wade being overturned.

The Unlearned Lesson of Katrina
The disaster in New Orleans was caused, not by too little welfare spending, but by too much. Four decades of dependence on government left people without the resources — economic, intellectual, or moral — to plan ahead and provide for themselves in an emergency
The Nation’s Best Grocery Stores
Shopping for groceries can be an exercise in frustration, fraught with experiences you’d rather avoid.
The ideal? Lots of checkout lanes, wide aisles, and consistently fresh meat and produce — like at Wegmans, one of several stores which got top ratings in the October issue of Consumer Reports.
The ACLU: A bunch of theocrats?
Think about it a minute
Compare the concept of democracy – where individuals may speak and act and express their faith according to their own understandings – with theocracy, where an elite few dictate what all individuals can and cannot say, do or express concerning their beliefs.
Couric sheds 20 pounds in doctored publicity photo
The CBS network said on Wednesday that an overzealous employee in its publicity department was responsible for air-brushing about 20 pounds off Katie Couric’s figure in a recent promotional photo.
A photograph taken at a network event in May, showing Couric standing on stage smiling in a pin-stripped suit, was digitally altered to give the incoming CBS News anchor a trimmer waistline, darker clothing and even a thinner face.