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The Health Care Bill is no longer about the socialization of medicine. It has now come down to the socialization of abortion. And it seems like a number of women don’t like the restrictions added to the bill. And to use a typically misogynist phrase: they are not going to take it lying down. House…

Wretchard at Belmont Club is having a discussion of the nature of faith prompted by an Obama speech Honoring the Fort Hood dead. Faith is an interesting thing. An engineer labors on because he has faith that questions will turn into answers. And not just any answers. Answers good enough to earn a profit. That…

Today is Veterans Day, so if you know any veterans, go out and thank one. If you don’t know any veterans to thank, you could always start with this blog’s resident veteran M. Simon, who also has his own blog. My father served in World War II and my grandfather served in World War I,…

Camille Paglia praises Nancy Pelosi for displaying what a lot of people would call balls if they had any. Pelosi, argues Paglia, is “sets a new standard for U.S. women politicians and is certainly well beyond anything the posturing but ineffectual Hillary Clinton has ever achieved.” And this: a basic feminist shibboleth like abortion rights…

I got a press release by e-mail this morning that is most interesting. It says marijuana is a drug. For real. The American Medical Association (AMA) voted today to reverse its long-held position that marijuana be retained as a Schedule I substance with no medical value. The AMA adopted a report drafted by the AMA…

Speaking of police accountability, check this out (from the Wiki entry for Jeffrey Dahmer): In the early morning hours of May 30, 1991, 14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone (by chance, the younger brother of the boy whom Dahmer had molested) was discovered on the street, wandering naked, heavily under the influence of drugs and bleeding from his…

This is anecdotal evidence. We don’t know if Actual Government Run American Healthcare will work better or WORSE than these anecdotes. I haven’t read the book. So far all four reviews are five star. It could be the author’s brother in law and his married cousin though. But this excerpt I got by e-mail was…

MoveOn.org (and no, I’m not going to link) says: Victory! The House just passed historic health care reform, moving us a big step closer to covering millions and ending Big Insurance’s stranglehold on health care. Good idea. Giving Big Government a stranglehold has got to be an improvement. Nationalized Health Care. National Socialism. What could…

I’m getting questions from here and there. It is my premise that the vote to strip abortion out of the Health Destruction bill allowed the bill to pass the House. Well a lot of Right thinking people have questioned that premise. They ask me, “how can you know for sure?” Well I can’t. But the…

Willis Eschenbach nails it: Here’s the point: prior to this study, the IPCC was 99% certain that the radiative forcing from methane was between about 0.4 and 0.6. But this new study is now 99% certain that it is between 0.7 and 1.3 … which means that the uncertainty ranges of the earlier studies, or…

Videos of police incidents are helpful to the police, right? They can help solve crime because they preserve an accurate record of who did what to whom, they can help in determining whether and when a crime occurred, and they can obviously be of great assistance in identifying criminals. So it seems to be almost…

Now that the Democrats are fresh in the glow of their victory in the House of Representatives, I am seeing this new meme everywhere, a Philadelphia Inquirer writeup being typical. The headline is “Abortion threatens health bill,” but I think the subtext is to encourage a repeat of the same bait-and-switch tactics that took the…

In a previous post I was discussing the tension between social conservatism and fiscal conservatism in social conservatives. So I of course I needed to see how my congressman Don Manzullo voted on the Stupak-Pitts Amendment which prohibits federal funding of abortion and federal subsidies for insurance coverage of abortion. My Cong. Critter did good.…

I can’t believe it’s been twenty years since the Wall came tumbling down. The Berlin Wall that is. I was born in 1954, at the height of the Cold War, and I remember when the wall went up. I was seven, and it happened at about the same time as Nikita Khrushchev’s infamous shoe banging…

Eric at Classical Values has several posts up on how anti-abortion Republicans greased the way for passage of the health care bill in the House. You can read them at anti-abortion RINOs? Is there such a species? and The best way to keep something out of a government program? No program! and Federal crackdown leads…

To the anti-abortion lobby, Congressman Bart Stupak is a hero right now. But to those who oppose government health care, he’s anything but a hero, because his anti-abortion amendment is what saved the day for the Pelosi bill. While at least one anti-abortion conservative blogger warned that Stupak (a supporter of government health care) was…

With the House hurdle out of the way, government health care has inched closer to being a reality than ever before. Hopefully, it will be stopped in the Senate, if the Republicans there don’t make the same mistake they made in the House and help facilitate its passage by “sweetener” amendments. As I explained in…

Senator Joe Lieberman has a few questions about the Fort Hood attack. Sen. Joe Lieberman’s call for the investigation came as word surfaced that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan apparently attended the same Virginia mosque as two Sept. 11 hijackers in 2001, at a time when a radical imam preached there. Whether Hasan, an Army psychiatrist,…

As I’ve said before, abortion is not “my” issue. I don’t discuss it much, perhaps because I don’t like getting into the usual hopeless, useless arguments which persuade no one and mainly inflame passions. More than almost any issue, discussion of the abortion issue is limited mainly to pro-abortion and anti-abortion activists and single issue…

When Barack Obama was campaigning against Hillary Clinton, he repeatedly promised that his health insurance plan would not be compulsory, and stated that this was one of the important differences between him and Hillary Clinton. “Watch the whole video for Obama’s impassioned criticisms of plans which mandate that people purchase health insurance under threat of…