Still looking for the Perfect Christmas Gift? How about an Abortion?!

Indianapolis, Dec 2, 2008 / 04:23 am (CNA).- The Indiana affiliate of Planned Parenthood is offering gift certificates for birth control and other services, including abortion. While an announcement of the program encourages customers to purchase the certificates to “give the gift of health this holiday season,” one critic characterized the effort as “lethal.”
Indiana Planned [...]

Sarah Palin: NOT The right choice, not the right to choose

Senator John McCain, on the heels of Obama’s grand disquisition, announces that he has chosen Alaska’s Governor Sarah Palin to run with him. I have to say, Senator McCain has impressed me tremendously — not enough to sway me away from Barr (or, maybe, Baldwin), but enough that, were I willing to vote major party [...]

Minnesota Police State: A reason to be glad it wasn’t Pawlenty?

I mean not at all to suggest even that Pawlenty had anything to do with this, or even that he approves of it (although, as far as I know, he’s not condemned it), but it happened under his nose, so to speak. Palin isn’t without (seeming) scandal, but, as far as I know, police in [...]

More Culture11 goodness!

Joe Carter offers a thoughtful, lucid, important disagreement with Mr Suderman’s post on the GOP’s platform plank respective stem-cell research.
First of all, there is no real need for embryo-destructive research. Last November, scientists discovered how to create embryonic-type stem cells that can be produced directly from ordinary human skin cells, without first creating or [...]

The best candidate gets the job? How novel! How un-American!

The Indianapolis Star reports that the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and Indianapolis Fire Department “no longer must use racial preference in hiring and promotion, prompting public safety officials to announce Friday they will more strictly adhere to a merit-based system that they say will ensure fairness.”
“People have the right to expect that in the Police [...]

Wake up America: Another reason not to vote for Barack Obama

From the 31 July 2008 Washington Times:
Legislation that would make it more difficult for workers to hold a private ballot vote in unionization drives, which critics say would lead to harassment and intimidation, has spurred a pitched battle between powerful labor unions supportive of Sen. Barack Obama and big business in the presidential campaign.
Seen by [...]

NY _Times_ reports: “Russia Orders Halt in Georgia as Fighting Continues”

MOSCOW — President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia announced Tuesday that he had ordered a halt to his country’s military operation in Georgia, although he did not say that troops were pulling out and he insisted that Russian forces were still authorized to fire on enemies in South Ossetia.
I happily report this, having begun to [...]

More on Senator Tom “Dr. No” Coburn

Politico offers this report:
The Senate Ethics Committee has told Republican Sen. Tom Coburn that he’ll be engaged in a “serious violation of Senate rules” if he continues delivering babies back home in Oklahoma.
Coburn’s response: So what?
“On my own time, I’m taking care of women who have a need, and I’m going to continue to deliver [...]

Zing of the day

James, reaching, to-day, the zenith of wit, ponders, regarding John Edwards’ admitting to having had an affair (but not to having fathered Mistress Hunter’s love-child), “When You’re Living in Two Americans . . . how can you be expected to have only one woman?” How very true.

A far worse war criminal-president than George W. Bush could ever hope to be

Sixty-three years ago, to-day, Harry Truman became one of the worst war criminals known to man-kind, authorizing the dropping of an atomic bomb on the innocent people of Hiroshima, despite the helplessness of Japan at that point in the war.
God bless America.