Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
My views on abortion have changed mightily over the years. The selfish, immature side of me still longs for a pro-choice label, but the mature, moral side of me has concluded that, subject to a few exceptions, pro-Life is the way to go. I won’t expand on that right now,
Continue readingYesterday I wrote a long post about the fact that the abortion debate, at least on the pro-choice side, ignores social and medical advances that should make it a very different debate from the one that led to Roe v. Wade. I think this is an important conversation, because of
Continue readingI dreamed last night about the first ultrasound I had when I was pregnant with my daughter. I was sixteen weeks pregnant, and had been throwing up non-stop for 15 1/2 of those sixteen weeks. I was not happy. I resented the parasite within me. And then I saw the
Continue readingSen. Ben Nelson is mad. How dare the voters (and, especially, the conservatives) attack him simply for changing his mind on health care: “This is all orchestrated,” Nelson said Sunday. “It’s so thinly disguised … it’s almost laughable. Nelson, the lone Democrat in Nebraska’s five-member congressional delegation, told The AP
Continue readingWhether you are for or against gay marriage, Robert George issues a sound warning about the dangers that flow from letting the Supreme Court get its hands on the issue: It would be disastrous for the justices to do so [rule against California’s Prop. 8 and, by extension, make gay
Continue readingIf you read Michelle Malkin, you already know about Zombie’s post exposing the unrepentant eugenicist past of John Holdren, Obama’s science czar. Writing in the early 1970s, when the trendy concern was the population explosion (promising every a brutish Malthusian future), Holdren eagerly espoused a world order with forced abortions;
Continue readingThe Left is tremendously excited about what they see as the hypocrisy behind the pro-Life movement because one of their own murdered George Tiller, a late-term abortion provider. Their excitement isn’t surprising, since they seem incapable of separating a crazed individual from the vast majority of pro-Lifers, all of whom
Continue readingSotomayor’s statements about judges (better if they’re female and minority) and their role (to make policy) have been disturbing. It’s worth nothing though that, as James Taranto points out that, on at least one occasion Sotomayor came out strongly in favor of free speech, even though it was very ugly
Continue readingOn April 30, Daniel Henninger wrote a very good column about one of Obama’s pre-election gifts — his ability to prevaricate so smoothly that everyone listening ended up believing that Obama was agreeing with his or her point of view: Early in the campaign, in January 2007, a New York
Continue readingI’m ambivalent about abortion. I grew up pro-choice, and have always accepted that, in certain situations, pregnancy is simply too burdensome. When I was young, I set a very low standard for what constituted “burdensome.” As I’ve grown older and had children of my own, that standard has become very
Continue readingConservatives have two stark choices right now: they can self-destruct or they can create a workable paradigm for moving forward. The self-destruction possibility is playing out before our eyes. Kathleen Parker fired the opening salvo with her screed about the evil oogedy-boogedy Christians that are tainting conservatism. Charles Johnson is
Continue readingOkay, I admit it. I’m easy. Call me “winsome” and write a thoughtful, well-informed, interesting article about the continuing resonance abortion has on the political process — even if it did not serve as the centerpiece of this last political campaign — and of course I’m going to link to
Continue readingCharles Martel left a very good comment about the way in which the Pill changed, not only women’s approach to sex, but their approach to abortion too: (I’m going to use an anthropomorphic term here, designed,” only because it makes it easier to discuss how nature works.) Nature designed the
Continue readingIt’s time to end the post mortem and get moving, the only problem being that “getting moving” is proving to be as rancorous amongst conservatives as was the political cycle itself. One of the schisms I’m seeing in my own blog is between pro-Life and pro- (or, at least, not
Continue readingAt HotAir, you can read this long, detailed and thoughtful post examining Obama’s positions on myriad issues. As you read the post, think about what I was trying to say yesterday: figure out what beliefs you hold, and then match them to the candidate. We’ve been so personality driven this
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