Pro lifers have long asserted that the ultrasound could make a profound change in the way people view abortion. Strong support for that view came in a story today of a Texas Planned Parenthood executive changing sides after watching an abortion via ultrasound. More details over at Secondhand . . . . Continue Reading »
Pushers of Obamacare have a mantra: “Affordable health care.” But the current plans would tax medical devises such as pace makers, which will increase the cost of care! From a column at NRO byDeroy Murdock:Obamacare promises to make medicine cheaper by making it costlier. . . . . Continue Reading »
The Argument:1. New Jersey exists.2. New Jersey is governed by corrupt politicians.3. The people of New Jersey have the power to remove those politicians through voting.4. The people of New Jersey persist in reelecting the corrupt politicians.Therefore: the people of New Jersey are either-a. . . . . Continue Reading »
The swine flu shot was reportedly given to some Brooklyn school children without parental consent. From the story:School nurses mistakenly gave the swine flu vaccine to two students who didn’t sign up for it - including a Brooklyn girl with epilepsy who wound up in the hospital. “I . . . . Continue Reading »
Escalating violence against Egyptian Coptic Christians coincides with a hardening of lines inside Egypt’s banned Muslim fundamentalist organization, the Muslim Brotherhood (Hamas is officially the Gaza branch of the MB).From a poster at this blog’s Forum:Egypt (AINA) — . . . . Continue Reading »
Australia’s suicide obsessed Philip Nitschke is bringing his how-to-kill-yourself class to the USA. I have a piece about his planned San Francisco suicide lecture in today’s San Francisco Chronicle. From the column:Shouldn’t there be limits to assisted-suicide permissiveness? . . . . Continue Reading »
As Hebrews 11 reminds us we are a Faith with great heroes. Some men and women are given the grace to do great feats for God and this weekend the Church honored them. Today is a lesser known celebration: the Feast of All Souls, a day to remember all the faithful departed. Put mythically: If yesterday . . . . Continue Reading »
This should not be a surprise to anyone : Edmunds.com, the premier resource for online automotive information, has determined that Cash for Clunkers cost taxpayers $24,000 per vehicle sold. Nearly 690,000 vehicles were sold during the Cash for Clunkers program, officially known as CARS, but . . . . Continue Reading »
How Tim Challies stays employed is utterly beyond my understanding because he writes more stuff pretty much for free than ought to be legal, let alone moral.And I’ll be honest: I like Tim personally but I find a lot of his blogging a little dry. But I saw him undertaking a project over at the . . . . Continue Reading »
There have been interesting polling, occasionally reported here, about how the country seems to be moving in a pro life direction, with the Gallup Poll now showing a majority opposing abortion. One reason seems to be that improved imaging techniques have verified the humanity of gestating . . . . Continue Reading »
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