Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
There’s a story out of Santa Barbara today about a UC Santa Barbara professor who went berserk in a campus free-speech area when she saw a pro-Life display with graphic pictures of aborted fetuses. She tried to lead a mob against it, grabbed a display and ran off with it,
Continue readingSPOILER ALERT!!! I’m going to be discussing last night’s episode of Downton Abbey. If you haven’t seen it yet, and are still planning on watching it, STOP READING RIGHT NOW. * * * * Okay. Are those of you still with me okay with a spoiler? Good. Let’s get going
Continue readingOne of the reasons given for legalizing abortion was so that it could be done by doctors, rather than less qualified practitioners. (Although the Gosnell case revealed that being is physician is no guarantee of quality.) Given that a driving argument behind abortion was to put women in the hands
Continue readingI enjoy reading my Liberal-Lefty friends’ Facebook posts because they are so insightful into the mindsets of the Left. One insight that I have gained over time is that the differences between us conservatives and the Progressive/Left are so profound that they are unlikely to ever be bridged, barring some
Continue readingThe starting point for any discussion about abortion is, of course, Roe v. Wade. Pro-abortion people like to throw that case name around like a magic talisman that allows abortion from the moment of conception until some time after birth. They invariably forget that Roe v. Wade was a very
Continue readingKirsten Powers, one of Fox News’ resident Democrats, is the person who forced the Kermit Gosnell mass murder onto the front page. Before Powers shamed the media into pretending, if only for a few days, that the trial of one the most prolific serial killers in American history actually mattered,
Continue readingAs the mother of the Obama government’s Plan B (aka “Morning After Pill”) demographic, I have strong feelings about the move to let 15 year olds just go to the store and buy the stuff. The Watcher’s Council has a forum up on that subject and, as always, Council members
Continue reading(I was halfway through writing this one before I remembered that it was for Mr. Conservative and not for my own site. Now that it’s up there, though, I can reprint it here, and make my friends a part of the conversation.) You know what your 12-year-old daughter needs? Free
Continue readingLately, abortion has been in the news. It never gets far out of the news, but it intruded with extra force these past two weeks for two reasons. The first was the story about the media’s decision to ignore the Kermit Gosnell trial because it didn’t fit into the abortion
Continue readingStill working on coordinating my stiff, unresponsive brain this morning, so I have nothing interesting to say. I mean, my dog is perfect, and that’s always of interest to me, but it makes for very limited blog posts. Fortunately, as is always the case with the internet, even when my
Continue readingI had an interesting conversation with my mother, who may be 90, but is still sharper than most people you’ll meet. We got to talking about the Gosnell abortion/murder trial, which came as something of a surprise to her. Despite the fact that she watches the news and reads the
Continue readingI’m not 100% pro-Life. It’s hard for me to shake off the vestiges of spending 40 years in a pro-Choice world (the SF Bay Area) — and that’s despite the fact that I know that the pro-Life position is intellectually and morally the better position. I haven’t yet shaken a
Continue readingMuch has been made of Obama’s statement that the gun rights crowd should stop worrying, because Obama contends that he is “constrained” by the system the Founders put in place. If you don’t read his actual words with great care, it sounds as if he’s saying he’s contractually constrained —
Continue readingFor copy right reasons, I can’t produce the image here, but I can describe the cartoon that Joel Pett drew. It shows two young, earth-mother types sitting at a coffee shop. One is reading a newspaper with a headline stating “Restrictive abortion laws.” She turns to her friend and says
Continue readingKathleen Sebelius, showing one of her rare moments of good sense, had the FDA limit the Morning After pill to girls and women over 17. A federal judge in Brooklyn has overruled that, saying it must be sold over-the-counter without limits to help slow teen pregnancy. I’m not going to
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