Townhall.com | Patrick J. Buchanan | April 24, 2007
Partial birth abortion is a grisly and revolting procedure.
An unborn baby is brought halfway out of the birth canal, then has scissors rammed into its skull and its brains sucked out for easier passage. Sen. Pat Moynihan called it “infanticide.” Seventeen Senate Democrats defied the feminist fanatics to vote to outlaw it.
Townhall.com | Nicole Gelinas | April 25, 2007
Why did NBC News—as well as its competitors and print-media counterparts—show that video? Through the spectacular posthumous attention that the media have awarded him, Cho Seung-Hui has shown just how easy it is for an intelligent killer to manipulate sophisticated news organizations into serving as barely filtered propaganda pipelines.
Townhall.com | Michael Medved | April 25, 2007
When it comes to the issue of gay marriage, the Jewish Theological Seminary blinked and gave way to society’s shifting mores. So one must ask the question: Should we guide religion, or should religion guide us?
FrontPageMagazine.com | Rich Noyes | April 27, 2007
Back in 2001, when Bryant Gumbel hosted CBS’s The Early Show, he polled his on-air colleagues. “At the risk of starting an argument, are you a believer in global warming?” The responses were unanimous: “Absolutely.” “Of course.” “Yeah.”
Reason Magazine | Steve Chapman | April 23, 2007
What the Supreme Court hath wrought
Most Supreme Court decisions can be read over breakfast, at least after your first cup of coffee, but the one last week upholding a federal ban on partial-birth abortion is not one of them. This procedure is one of those topics, like war and sausage, in which ignorance is bliss. But five justices refused to be accomplices in shielding the public from the truth.
The court cited one nurse’s account of this procedure. The doctor, she said, “delivered the baby’s body and arms — everything but the head.” At that point, she said, “The baby’s little fingers were clasping and unclasping, and his little feet were kicking. Then the doctor stuck the scissors in the back of his head, and the baby’s arms jerked out… The doctor opened up the scissors, stuck a high-powered suction tube into the opening, and sucked the baby’s brains out.”
Wall Street Opinion Journal April 24, 2007
The Schip strategy for government-run health care.
Any doubt that “universal” health care has returned as a dominant political issue vanished with last month’s forum for Democratic Presidential candidates in Nevada. “We need a movement,” Hillary Clinton declared. “We need people to make this the No. 1 voting issue in the ’08 election.”
Ed. Chronicle of how Republicans became like Democrats.
Wall Street Opinion Journal April 23, 2007.
How a Reaganite idealist lost his way.
It’s sad when someone you’ve known for decades gets in trouble and you’re not surprised.
After the FBI raided the home of California’s Rep. John Doolittle this month in search of records from the fund-raising company run by his wife, Julie, Republican House leaders didn’t wait even a day before they pressured him to step down from his seat on the powerful Appropriations Committee. Everyone knows that such a raid only occurs after a judge has issued a search warrant in response to government claims that there is probable cause a crime has been committed.
Wall Street Opinion Journal Jonathan Kellerman April, 23, 2007
Why the Virginia Tech shooter was not committed.
I was in graduate school, studying clinical psychology when they began shutting down the asylums. The place was California, the time was the early 1970s, and “they” were an unprecedented confederation of progressives, libertarians and fiscal conservatives.
Reuters Philip Pullella April 23, 2007
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican’s second-highest ranking doctrinal official on Monday forcefully branded homosexual marriage an evil and denounced abortion and euthanasia as forms of “terrorism with a human face.”
The attack by Archbishop Angelo Amato, secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, was the latest in a string of speeches made by either Pope Benedict or other Vatican officials as Italy considers giving more rights to gays.
Ed.: Noonan makes several worthwhile observations about the Virginia Tech shootings including: 1) the studied and cultivated softness of men (where have the real men gone although she calls them “grownups”); and 2) the lack of any sense of the evil of the shooter.
Wall Street Opinion Journal Peggy Noonan April 20, 2007
Virginia Tech and the heartlessness of our media and therapy culture.
I saw an old friend on the Acela on the way to Washington, and he told me of the glum, grim faces at the station he’d left, all the commuters with newspapers in their hands and under their arms. This was the day after Virginia Tech. We talked about what was different this time, in this tragedy. I told him I felt people were stricken because they weren’t stricken. When Columbine happened, it was weird and terrible, and now there have been some incidents since, and now it’s not weird anymore. And that is what’s so terrible. It’s the difference between “That doesn’t happen!” and “That happens.”