Free Congress Foundation Online — conservative critique of the civil liberties encroachment emergency. I found this page while looking into the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act, coming your way soon in most states including my own. Click on the commentary by Steve Lilienthal (“A Bad Idea Coming Your Way”) :

MEHPA is, of course, just what the liberal public health community ordered

to maximize their power. Indeed, the spearhead for this model bill is a

center for public health law at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins universities

that is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Despite

its admirable sounding title, the CDC is as much – if not more – concerned

with enacting a political agenda as it is with ensuring public safety.

He pulls together some additional links to explore MEHPA.

Also at this site is an item by Connie Marshner, “Are We Homo Sapiens or Not?”, commenting about the human cloning issue. Interestingly, she echoes what Todd Gitlin said months ago, from the left, about how this will change the political landscape and make left-right distinctions obsolete:

What is it that can get the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective (you know, the feminists who gave the world that veritable compendium of the sexual revolution, Our Bodies, Ourselves) to stand shoulder to shoulder with the evangelical Family Research Council? What is it that can get the Friends of the Earth to stand side by side with the Vatican? What can get the General Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church and the Orthodox Patriarchate of Moscow singing off the same sheet of music?

When did this happen? At press conferences this very week, and in testimony before Congress last summer, these diverse groups were able to find common ground in their opposition to cloning. And in their opposition, currently in embryonic form to be sure, may be the promise of some new political landscape.