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For what it is worth...

Yet even how Elrod goes about sizing up his place in the Republican universe leaves you wondering whether the guy just enjoys sticking a thumb in the eye of the party establishment. Republicans, he states plainly, have in recent years been too willing to let their leaders slide on traditional party dogma -- fiscal responsibility and smaller government -- so long as they made plenty of noise about hot-button social issues.

"As long as they got fired up about the definition of marriage amendment or the Terri Schiavo case, that was fine -- then you could spend whatever it is you want to spend. . . . And I'm not one of those. I really believe in narrowing the scope of government," he says...........

Elrod: His own conservative... Elrod's stance on gay marriage puts him at odds with some Republicans in his bid for 7th District seat

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We can understand somewhat. With that grim face of doom some doctors assume, they told us our son would only live a few hours at most, then a few weeks at most, and never in his twenty six years did they ever extend a prognosis of beyond six months. So we have a little bias against doctors to surmount. Thread by Sopater. Thanks, wagglebee, for the ping.

A couple who were advised to abort their baby when doctors said he had a rare brain disorder have spoken of their joy after their "miracle son" was born in perfect health.

Little Brandon Kramer was diagnosed with rhomboencephalosynapsis – a condition so rare it affects fewer than one in a million people worldwide – while he was still in the womb.......

In perfect health, the baby doctors said would be born deaf and blind ...and live only a few hours

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