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The pre-post on the current abortion rage

Annoyances, Current Events, Family, History, Liberty, Politics, Religion 4 Responses »

Feb 102012

A couple of you have asked me when I’m going to write about Planned Parenthood, Komen, Catholics, insurance, and so forth.

I don’t know. Sometime. I want to. It’s too big for the time I usually give myself for a post, and I haven’t figured out to my satisfaction how to break it down into multiple sessions yet. I’m thinking about it, though.

I haven’t had much to say about abortion here. I’ve occasionally mentioned in some context or another that I have a qualified pro-choice position. Though some aspects of it have tacked steadily right for several years, I don’t anticipate that ever changing.

However, you should interpret such neither as approval of the militant left’s rhetoric on the topic nor any sort of trivialization of the practical and emotional impacts of this family of “procedures.”

I’m extremely disappointed in the events of the past couple of weeks. I’m trying to channel that emotion productively. Shrieking is easy. I don’t want to, and I’m trying not to.

Stay tuned.

Alabama illegal immigration law slashes unemployment

Annoyances, Current Events, Liberty, Politics 2 Responses »

Jan 242012

Alabama’s unemployment rate fell to 8.1% in December. It was 8.7% one month earlier. In September, it was 9.8%.

Most of Alabama’s illegal immigration law—widely regarded as the toughest in the country—went into effect on September 29.

It seems “jobs Americans won’t do” might be a rather more diaphanous notion than any of the phrase’s supporters realized, eh?

We’ve got to get over the idea that it’s harmless to allow, and in some cases even actively enable, illegal aliens to access our country’s job market and government benefits essentially unfettered. The above result startles me in its degree. Clearly, it does matter—a lot.

Even if you believe it is a legitimate function of government to provide for people without regard for whether the government actually belongs to those people, how is it compassion for us to cut our own throats? Is that not what we’re doing?

Where has this Newt Gingrich been?

Current Events, Language, Liberty, Politics 3 Responses »

Jan 172012

Newt’s been pretty good in these debates. Last night he turned transcendent: If he’d been this guy since September, where would he be now? I can’t recall ever seeing a standing ovation at a debate.

Responding to four peeing Marines

Annoyances, Current Events, History, Liberty, Politics 3 Responses »

Jan 132012

It appears very much as if several soldiers recently urinated on some bodies, and video-recorded themselves doing so. It also appears very much as if this occurred in Afghanistan, these soldiers are U.S. Marines, and the bodies are Taliban. “It was inhuman and despicable, an unforgivable act,” said Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi. (Good to [...]

Tossing political grenades

Annoyances, Current Events, History, Liberty, Politics 4 Responses »

Dec 202011

Have a few. Find one on the basis of which you can call me a great American or a horrible SOB, then do so: Did we have this many debates last time? I’m kind of glad that stage is over. I’m ready for my dripping contempt of Barack Obama to have a face. The correct [...]