I just want to make sure that those donations [to Ron Paul] are in American dollars, not Liberty Dollars.

My donation dollars to Ron Paul were American, as were those I sent to Dodd. Give it up already -- must you try to turn every thread into an attack on contemporary, American libertarians of the Cato and Reason stripe?

Yes, I guess you are powerless vis-a-vis that impulse.

My libertarian co-blogger, Jim Henley, is often more likely to "spot" and decry racism and sexism than I am, and I sometimes think he is just being sensitive-silly. (And Jim is rarely silly.)

But he wants folks to donate to both Dodd and Paul. Points made in these Jim posts: http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2007/12/18/7597

http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2007/12/18/7600

If you mean me -- and it is hard to know since you did not identify to whom you were replying -- no. I'll give the links(s) to my Kucinich posts if you want. But I am reluctant to look as if I am promoting my own blog with any further links, unless requested.

I, a female, who has had to face the serious distress of a very unwanted pregnancy she did not abort, agree with virtually everything Glenn has written in his post and in comments. (Yes, yes I know, that was my "choice"; the point is that I do not speak from either ignorance or without significant understanding of how unplanned pregnancy can affect women.) Having heard my first son's heartbeat at 8 weeks via ultrasound stethoscope, I subsequently knew the entity inside of me -- when I was extremely unhappy about that fact -- was not mere protoplasm, and I had volunteered for the sex that resulted in each case of the children I conceived. I knew the risks, and assumed them, and did not make my unborn offspring do so with his life.

Pro-lifers sometimes do oppose capital punishment and unjustified war. Pro-choicers are often highly selective in what they think individuals should have choices about. I use the terms "pro-life" and "pro-choice" in my writing, however, because they are commonly understood, and how are each side describes themselves, and that has been true for decades.

Further, as a female, I hereby invoke my plenipotentiary Grrrl powers to permit all males to express an opinion on the subject, even the gay ones, and including those who disagree with me.

I'd like you to directly quote where anything Glenn wrote constitutes an "attack on abortion rights."

Anybody who supports an anti-choice politician such as Ron Paul, as Glenn Greenwald certainly seems to, is attacking abortion rights. Seems pretty elementary to me.

What Glenn ACTUALLY WROTE in his post, his emphasis:

As Ezra [Klein] somewhat hints at, many people (including myself) who think that Paul's candidacy has important positive elements (without wanting him to be President) believe that to be the case because he's injecting into our political discussions critical ideas and debates (such as his belief in a republic rather than an empire) which are otherwise all but excluded.

Glenn has praised and pushed the pro-choice Dodd, as well as Ron Paul. For essentially the same reasons, I've donated (only) to those campaigns.

I get so sick of these pro-choice hysterics. If Roe were overturned tomorrow -- and as South Dakota recently demonstrated -- even most red states would not criminalize first trimester abortions. Abortion is not a salient issue at this point.