Pro-Lifers and the Truth-Phobic Press

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Photosource: telecare Katrina Fernandez has pictures from yesterday’s March for Life, and she promises that more are coming. Watching yesterday on EWTN, I heard estimates of nearly half-million people marching peacefully and cheerfully, in the freezing rain, in support of life, which is — at its core, as Tim Muldoon writes — a march in [...]

Can a Standing O Shake a Worldview? UPDATED

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If you did not see the standing ovation given Newt Gingrich when went “smackdown” on John King during last night’s debate, here it is: I came to the debate a few minutes late so I didn’t see it live. At the end of the debate, when CNN replayed “highlights” the standing-O wasn’t included (it certainly [...]

Right now, Obama wins

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Rick Perry is out. Ron Paul is still in the game, and may yet run as a third-party candidate. But he won’t be the GOP nominee. It is down to Obama vs. Romney, or Obama vs. Gingrich, or Obama vs. Santorum. So, the White House has to be feeling pretty good about things, just now. [...]

Tebow on ABC This Week & Focus on Family Msg

After watching George Stephanopoulos do a less-than-stellar job of reining in his disdain during the recent ABC GOP debate (although at this point, I’m not exactly offended by hearing the contenders referred to as “characters”) it doesn’t surprise me at all to read that his Sunday morning show, This Morning, couldn’t resist taking some “good-natured” [...]

Gibbs, Jarrett and Mrs. Obama: The Tussle

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So, former WH press secretary Robert Gibbs apparently tussled with Obama’s seeming mother-substitute Valerie Jarrett, and he was very rude to the woman, in discussing First Lady Michelle Obama. This cartoon has foul-language (you’re warned) but depicts what seems to have gone down. Well, I’m not surprised that Gibbs tussled with Jarrett. Gibbs, after all, [...]

US Economics Headlines, Circa 2005-2006

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I happened to be looking for an old post which seems to have been lost in my moves, but while searching I a link to this headline from 2006: U.S. Economy: Growth May Slow From 5.3% Annual Rate (Update4) U.S. economic growth rose at an annual rate of 5.3 percent in the first quarter, slower [...]

Kim Jong Il is Dead; New Tyrants Come

While you were sleeping our already-roiling world took another hit to its tenuous stability: North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has died at the age of 69, state-run television has announced. Mr Kim, who has led the communist nation since the death of his father in 1994, died on a train while visiting an area outside [...]