It's fascinating that the economic forces that led to the one-child policy thirty years ago are now forcing the Chinese to consider eliminating it.

As the Associated Press reported back in April:

For years, China curbed its once-explosive population growth with a widely hated one-child limit that at its peak led to forced abortions, sterilizations and even infanticide. Now the long-sacrosanct policy may be on its way out, as some demographers warn that China is facing the opposite problem: not enough babies.

The rebuilding of the World Trade Center tower certainly has been a long time in coming. Do you think Americans will feel differently about a nearby mosque once the symbolic tower is finished?

New York Governor David Patterson is trying to get the developers to move the project, while President Obama doesn't regret his support for the project.