Posted on 10/19/2006 8:20:41 AM PDT by PurpleMountains
One of the differences between liberals and conservatives, and therefore between most Democrats and most Republicans, concerns whether the fight to defeat the Islamic terrorists is best handled by the criminal justice system or by the military. This is one of the reasons why so many Democrats have opposed warrantless wiretaps on foreign Al Qaeda communications with domestic accomplices, why they opposed the Patriot Act, why they opposed tough questioning of enemy combatants, and why they opposed the Military Tribunals Act President Bush signed yesterday.
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Isn't she Jon Stewart's mother?
Stewart grew up in Lawrence Township, New Jersey with his parents, Marian and Donald Leibowitz. His mother is a physicist and his father is an educational consultant. He unofficially dropped his last name, Leibowitz, and altered the spelling of his middle name from "Stuart" to "Stewart." While he often jokes this is because people had difficulty with the pronunciation of Leibowitz or it "sounded too Hollywood" [1] (a reference to Lenny Bruce's joke on the same theme), Stewart has implied that the name change was actually due to a strained relationship with his father, who left the family in 1971 and with whom Stewart no longer has any contact [2]
I'd be surprised to find out that Lynne Stewart produced children.
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