Yesterday the Illinois Senate Human Services Committee voted 6-4 along party lines (Democrats for, Republicans against) for mandated HPV vaccines of all 11- and 12-year-old girls. The bill now goes before the full Senate. Here was the most interesting exchange of the hearing. Question from unnamed state senator: It is often said that although breast […]

One of the best scenes in the Godfather movie trilogy was in "Godfather II," when Kay Corleone (Diane Keaton) told her husband Michael (Al Pacino) she was taking their two children and leaving him. The dialogue: Michael: Do you expect me to let you take my children from me?…. Don’t you know that’s an impossibility, […]