Give Gaza to Egypt

Last updated on: January 30, 2008 at 11:05 pm By Edward Blackadder

Conversations about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict tend to be rather like the Israeli/Palestinian conflict itself, quickly descending into a series of escalating attacks and counter-attacks, bitterness and recriminations. I don’t know if the conflict is really capable of being resolved in any satisfactory way, certainly not in the foreseeable future, but unless we want to just throw up our hands and admit defeat (not a bad strategy, actually), we need to be open to new and creative ways of resolving the... Read more

Abortion Culture

Last updated on: January 30, 2008 at 5:56 pm By M.Z.

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Since I have the power, let me write briefly on the abortion issue. The debate over what constitutes doing a lot on abortion doesn’t really interest me. Symbolic victories have benefits. However having babes salt poisoned rather than dismembered or having them dismembered in the womb rather than the birth canal doesn’t generate back slapping for me. Similarly, whether General Electric funds abortion for poor women through their charitable contributions or the government funds it through Medicaid doesn’t interest me... Read more

Why I Cannot Support Republicans on the Abortion Issue

Last updated on: January 30, 2008 at 5:46 pm By Morning's Minion

These arguments do really seem to go around in circles. The defenders of the Republican party seem to rely on a single line of un-nuanced linear reasoning: these Democrats (plus a few Republicans) believe something that is actually a great evil to be a “right”, somthing good, and hence voting for them is beyond the pale. Next you will be presented with abortion statistics that would lead one to think of an on-off switch: pull the lever for Republicans and... Read more

Edwards to Drop-out

Last updated on: January 30, 2008 at 5:06 pm By Policraticus

John Edwards will announce at 1pm EST that he is dropping out of the race for the Democratic nomination. Read more

Edwards to Drop-out

Last updated on: January 30, 2008 at 5:06 pm By Policraticus

John Edwards will announce at 1pm EST that he is dropping out of the race for the Democratic nomination. Read more

Florida Exit Polling

Last updated on: January 30, 2008 at 3:40 pm By M.Z.

There is some chatter this morning about exit poll data in Florida. The significance is being misinterpreted. The final results were McCain 36% and Romeny 31%. CNN didn’t release the margin of error in the polling. If it is like most exit polling, you can assume a 5% margin of error. (There is the other issue that these are non random polls. The pick polling stations based on past predictive ability for regions.) Having prefaced this, here is what we... Read more

“Imagining a Pro-Life America”

Last updated on: January 30, 2008 at 2:44 pm By rgarnett

Ross Douthat has a very interesting post, “Imagining a Pro-Life America”, up at The Atlantic. There’s something in it, I suspect, to challenge everyone. He opens with this: [A]ny successful attempt, in a post-Roe world, to ban or strictly regulate abortion in the United States would amount to an epic social experiment, with no obvious antecedents in our own history or any other country’s. I gather that what would make this attempt an “epic experiment” is not that there is... Read more

“Imagining a Pro-Life America”

Last updated on: January 30, 2008 at 2:44 pm By rgarnett

Why Do You Pick On Republicans?

Last updated on: January 30, 2008 at 10:32 am By Henry Karlson

In one form or another, many people ask the question, “Why do the bloggers on Vox Nova point out the inconsistencies of Republicans who claim to be pro-life when Democrats are not better?” A variation of this question was just put up by Christopher Blosser on Catholics in the Public Square. (more…) Read more

Comedy by McCain

Last updated on: January 30, 2008 at 9:25 am By Policraticus

From an old SNL show McCain did in 2002. Read more