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37 Years On
On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court handed down the still controversial Roe v. Wade decision. That ruling effectively took the massive moral question of abortion out of the hands of the American people, and in the 37 years since, an estimated 50 million unborn children have been aborted. Since that time, we have learned that “Roe,” Norma McCorvey, was used by radicals and taught to lie about the circumstances of her pregancy in court. Today, she is strongly pro-life. There are Walks for Life today all over the country and Texas, including Dallas, Houston, at the capitol in Austin and in Washington, DC to mark the day.
Rather than recite Roe’s legacy of division and rancor that by now we all are familiar with, today’s anniversary is an appropriate time to note a few things that are happening right now. The American people are, for the first time since the question has been polled, more pro-life than not. In May 2009, Gallup found that 51% of Americans identify themselves as pro-life, while 42% identify as pro-choice.
(Posted at NewsRealBlog)
by Chris Rowan
Exhausted after a full day of kayak fishing in the waters off Green Island in the Lower Laguna Madre, I plopped down on the floor and crossed my legs under the coffee table in front of the TV. I stared at the laptop for a moment, then opened it and pressed the “On” button. Roused from hibernation, the laptop displayed what I had last seen – a reminder to watch “The People Speak” on The History Channel.
Ugh.
I had done a little research weeks ago on Howard Zinn and his pseudocumentary, so my expectations were rather low. Still, tired though I was, I felt compelled to watch.
I was able to endure fifteen minutes.
(From NewsReal Blog)
by Matthew Vadum
There’s something about Mao: the Obama administration just can’t get enough of its favorite mass murderer! It’s Mao mania at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue!
Glenn Beck revealed on his radio show today that President Obama’s car czar Ron Bloom is the second White House official in recent days to have been discovered to have a crush on Chairman Mao.
Beck played a clip of Bloom in which he said the following:
Generally speaking we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whole point is to game the system, to beat the market, or at least find someone who will pay you a lot of money because they’re convinced that there is a free lunch. We know this is largely about power, that it’s an adults only, no limit game. We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun. And we get it that if you want a friend, you should get a dog.
Here’s the video footage of Bloom’s statement:
It is unclear from Bloom’s statement if he idolizes Mao as his White House colleague Anita Dunn does, but obviously Mao is someone he respects enough to quote in a speech.
Dunn, who is President Obama’s White House communications director, backed away from her previous praise of Mao by claiming she was only joking when she called him “one of the two people that I turn to most.”
What is it with these people? Can’t they quote someone other than the Chinese Hitler?
(From Newsreal Blog)
by Matthew Vadum
Standup comedian Anita Dunn, who doubles as President Obama’s White House communications director, now claims she was only joking when praised Mao Zedong by calling him “one of the two people that I turn to most,” Glenn Beck revealed on his TV show today.
Hilarious! There have to be 70 million murdered Chinese rolling in the aisles! What a knee-slapper.
Beck revealed last week that Dunn idolizes Mao, the brutal Communist dictator of China responsible for the slaughter of tens of millions of innocent victims.
(From NewsReal)
by kathyshaidle
Good to know Attorney General Eric Holder has his priorities straight.
Last night, Sean Hannity of FOX News reported that a lengthy ethics investigation of former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson has been suddenly called off. Hannity cited an “anonymous source” who told reporters that the investigation “was killed in Washington.”
(Richardson, whom Hannity described as “a close ally of the Obama administration,” was up for the choice post of Commerce Secretary, until a federal grand jury began an investigation into a state contract awarded to one of Richardson’s major political donors.)
Instead, Holder has decided to focus his investigative powers elsewhere. As Joseph Klein wrote here August 25, Holder has appointed a “prosecutor to investigate alleged CIA interrogation abuses during the Bush administration. It is arguably one of the worst decisions to date of an already disastrous Obama administration. It chills effective intelligence-gathering as long as interrogators have to worry that everything they say and do may end up being used against them in a criminal trial.”
I feel safer already, don’t you?
