Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I’m on another vacation, sitting in a cyber cafe, working at a small computer with a microscopic keyboard, so it must be random thoughts day. Thank goodness DQ is doing the heavy lifting. The first thing that caught my interest is what Mitt said at the debate, which I really
Continue readingOne doesn’t even have to read the Supreme Court’s partial birth abortion decision to know that it is entirely consistent with the Left’s beloved Roe v. Wade. Contrary to most people’s assumptions about Roe v. Wade, that case does not create an unfettered right to abortion. Instead, it does a
Continue readingIn my post about the field of front-running Republican candidates, I got a comment from someone who said that s/he could not possibly vote for Giuliani, because Giuliani is personally pro-choice. Further, the comment writer said (or implied) that this would hold true even if it boiled down to a
Continue readingThe same Mary Davenport who took on the scientific falsehoods in Michael J. Fox’s ad has co-authored an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle regarding the parental notification proposition (Prop. 85) on California’s ballot. The Proposition requires that, before a teenage girl can have an abortion, the clinic must notify
Continue readingSome time ago, when I was still blogging at Blogger, I wrote a post asking what an American theocracy would look like. I asked this question because it occurred to me that, while liberals were frantically throwing around statements about Bush's "ultra conservatism" and "scary fundamentalism," none were articulating what
Continue readingI didn't realize that the medical community had been bewildered as to whether premature newborns could feel pain. Now, hi-tech evidence shows that they do, in fact, experience pain: Premature babies experience feelings of pain rather than simply displaying reflex reactions, a study says. Experts have never been sure how
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