Nathaniel Peters at the First Things blog quotes a friend of the court brief filed by Mother Theresa in a 1994 abortion case. An excerpt: Your opinion stated that you did not need to “resolve the difficult question of when life begins.” That question is
Now I know something of what I was looking for: documentary evidence that Barack Obama at least WAS a hard-left radical. Not just in his college days but when he ran for the state Senate in Illinois. Thomas Lifson summarizes the case in Archives prove
More notorious than Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers is his wife, Bernadine Dohrn. Shouldn’t the media investigate the law firm headed by Ayers’ father that employed both Dohrn and, for a summer, Obama? From Ayers-Dohrn-Obama Tie Shouldn’t Be Dismissed: For those of you unfamiliar with
What do you think an Obama presidency will–or would–be like? Keep in mind that the Democrats would control not only the presidency but the House and the Senate so will pretty much be able to do whatever they want. Keep in mind too that the
One of the hopes for the global financial meltdown is that China can save capitalism. More likely, though, is that we will become like China, adopting its model of letting people make money under a state-controlled economy. In other words, letting people have wealth without
Frank Sonnek alerted me to another heart-breaking phenomenon, as if we needed any more. A number of states have passed “safe haven” laws designed to allow young mothers to leave their newborn infants at a hospital or other facility with no fear of prosecution, an
The Barack Obama campaign is organizing “Camp Obamas” to train young activists to work for the cause. Specifically, they are being trained in the “community organizing” tactics of Chicago radical Saul Alinsky, whose organization gave Obama his start as a “community organizer.” See this account
Barack Obama will be the next president of the United States. He came across in the debate as presidential and as connecting with the American people. He did so much more than John McCain did. That’s all Obama needed. We might as well start playing
Details about Barack Obama’s days at Columbia and the radical friends he had there are gradually coming out. One connection was Edward Said, the radical Arab activist and postmodern literary theorist, who was a professor there. We even have a photo of the two in
Sebastian Mallaby, writing in “The Washington Post,” argues that, contrary to much of the rhetoric, deregulation was not to blame for the financial meltdown. Excerpt: The key financiers in this game were not the mortgage lenders, the ratings agencies or the investment banks that created
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