Sen. Orrin Hatch Questioning Elena Kagan About the Partial-Birth Abortion Memo
The exchange begins at 40:20.
View ArticleSaletan on the Kagan Partial-Birth Abortion Scandal
Here: “But if conservatives are being naive about the relationship between science and politics, Kagan is being cynical about it. “There was no way in which I would have or could have intervened with...
View Article"Kettle, Thou Art Black!" Pronounces Bart "The Pot" Stupak
The question is, why is he still carrying the water. Didn’t he get whatever it was he was going to get out of the deal? I do hope that Mr. Stupak is at least finding it difficult not to intone the...
View ArticleToday in Alphonse, Gaspar Noe Edition
“Mr. Noé’s sensationalist bent remains evident in ‘Enter the Void,’ which features a head-on car crash (repeated several times) and an abortion procedure complete with bloody fetus, but it appears to...
View ArticleSomething to Make Alphonse Snicker a Bit
Some scientists in the UK have have done a systematic review of the research. (Just imagine for a moment what said research must entail.) And they’ve concluded that fetuses feel no pain. So our...
View ArticleSPRM vs Sperm
Bear with me here. The news is rather old, but I was going through the website for U.S. Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) for a story I’m doing during my day job on the rise of abortions in the state of...
View ArticleHm.
Todd Phillips, who recently directed The Hangover, once directed an hour-long documentary on fraternities called Frat House. Available for viewing here, though you ought to know it’s a very graphic...
View ArticleFrom the YouTube Political Video Archives: The Republicans Drove the Car into...
A good analogy, and pretty accurate as far as I can tell. (On the other hand, in Washington State maybe D stands for Dino, I don’t know. Here‘s why I can’t vote for Patty Murray.)
View ArticleTwo out of three ain’t bad.
The Onion gives the American Voices treatment to the couple who put their decision to abort or not abort up for an online vote. Once again, these guys are the past masters of finding the funny in the...
View ArticleGuest Post from J.B. Toner: DEATH
DEATH The wage of sin, the price of Adam’s fall–All right, I’ve sinned, you reading this have sinned,We’ll pay our debt, blood, suffering, and all:Our souls to God, our bodies to the wind.Death follows...
View ArticleWhat a Shame…
To have not one but TWO bishops celebrate a Mass in honor of your inauguration as the new governor of Nevada ….and be unable to recieve communion at that Mass. Or should we infer otherwise from the...
View ArticleMother? Is that you?
A great little story from my homestate and homecounty. (Regarding Red Bank, NJ: I first learned to sail in the Navesink River; read and wrote poems on its banks; and kissed a girl in a boat we took...
View ArticleFor instance…
…a pro-life journalist could do a semi-sympathetic profile on this “health care professional.” First question to ask him: “Will you be available for an interview after serving time for multiple counts...
View ArticleI wrote a comment!
Over at Heather King’s Shirt of Flame! (Of course, you’re supposed to click for the original essay, not the comment.)
View ArticleLove in the Ruins – Canadian Style
Dr. Tom makes a trip ‘up Nort’ ? (Warning: Slightly Fleshy!)
View ArticleAlbert Camus – snuffed by the KGB?
There is now a theory, certainly credible if unproven, that the Soviets issued a warrant for the assasination of the French Writer, which led to his fatal car accident in 1960. This description makes...
View ArticleAnd yet, not a tear does the Gray Lady shed for China…
“About one hour later, the van stopped in the hospital. As soon as I was drug out of the van, I saw hundreds of pregnant moms there — all of them just like pigs in the slaughterhouse. Immediately I...
View Article“Do Pre-Persons Dream of Algebra?”
Well, look at that, Alphonse (and other attempts at getting at the infinite mystery and fragile pricelessness of personhood through fiction) isn’t kid’s stuff, after all… At least, not if we’re to...
View ArticleBut I thought corporations were people?
Hobby Lobby fails in bid to avoid HHS mandate: “Plaintiffs have not cited, and the court has not found, any case concluding that secular, for-profit corporations such as Hobby Lobby and Mardel have a...
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