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  Chaplain David Slater baptizes Lance Cpl. Adam Hand of New Bader, Ill., during a Protestant service at Life Support Area 7 in the Kuwaiti desert south of Iraq on Sunday, Feb. 23, 2003. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)

OMED: A recent topic on the Lars Larson radio talk program (KXL 750 AM in Portland and a multi-state NW network, weekdays) caught our ear. The question was about whether trans-gender people should be protected from job discrimination. Here is our response. If you are a fireman, and develop a heart condition, you lose your job. If you are professional baseball player and lose your arm, you lose your job. If you are a paint salesman and become color blind, you lose your job. If you are a talk show host and lose your ability to speak, you lose your...

<p>TOUGH times require tough decisions, Gov. Gray Davis said twice this week. Maybe soon he will say what some of them are.</p> <p>The time for revelation had not arrived, evidently, in either Davis' inaugural speech Monday or his State of the State oration on Wednesday.</p>

<p>"We ought to give that inspection thing one more shot." Former President Bill Clinton, on "Larry King Live," recently offered this advice to President George W. Bush. "If he has chemical and biological agents, and I believe he does," said Mr. Clinton, who opposes an immediate strike against Iraq, "he would have no incentive not to use them then, if he knew he was going to be killed anyway and deposed. He's got a lot of incentive not to use them now because he knows he'll be toast if he does."</p>

In Canada, Supreme Court appointees are never questioned about their special interests or biases. Appointees are secure in their well-paid and powerful positions until they are 75 or die. Their decisions change more laws in Canada than parliament makes. The prime minister, who introduced the "notwithstanding" clasuse in parliament in 1982, has never used it to avoid this advancing judicial dictatorship. These unquestioned judges change the laws and therefore make the laws -- not the politicians.

Bush has more choices to make as he extends terrorism fight President's next decisions may face increasing dissent 03/11/2002 By DAVID JACKSON / The Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON - In the six months since suicide hijackers struck America, the Bush administration has fought a war in Afghanistan, braced the nation for a global campaign against terror and tried to thwart new threats. This may have been the easy part. With the nation pausing Monday to commemorate the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush faces even tougher decisions as he seeks to expand the anti-terrorism campaign, analysts said. quot;We're coming face-to-face...