Abortion: easy peasy
The author of this WaPo piece, Janet Harris, says that for most women the decision to have an abortion is not a difficult one: Getting an abortion is expensive ”” not as costly as carrying a baby to term or … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Men and women; marriage and divorce and sex
The collapse of the 2-parent black family…
…was not a legacy of slavery, although it is often claimed that it is. It happened much, much more recently, as this article by Walter E. Williams points out. The article is a very short version of points that Thomas … Continue reading →
Headline of the day
“Don’t Let Republicans Erase Vaginas From Women’s Health”. The fictitious War on Women continueth. Why stop a good thing?
Continue reading →Megyn Kelly vs. Nancy Pelosi
Megyn wins hands down, no contest: [ADDENDUM: I noticed a discussion in the comments section about how it is that someone like Pelosi retains her power and manages to fool so many voters. My impression—gleaned mainly from liberal friends of … Continue reading →
Hillary Clinton’s deliberate misstatement of the law in the Hobby Lobby case
Hillary Clinton is smart, and she’s a lawyer. So of course she knows better than this statement she made about the Hobby Lobby SCOTUS decision: It’s very troubling that a salesclerk at Hobby Lobby who needs contraception, which is pretty … Continue reading →
Birth control: it’s free!
Isn’t this wonderful? More than half of privately insured women are getting free birth control under President Barack Obama’s health law, a major coverage shift that’s likely to advance. …The share of privately insured women who got their birth control … Continue reading →
The War on Women: Dick Morris may not be right about much, but clearly…
…he was right about this. Remember the Republican debates in early 2012, and George Stephanopoulos’ seemingly out-of-the-blue and off-the-wall question? Conservative commentator Dick Morris believes that the Democrat party is covertly trying to convince voters that Republicans want to “ban … Continue reading →
The left and Hobby Lobby: fanning the flames
I was curious about the reaction of liberal blogs to the Hobby Lobby ruling, and clicked on HuffPo and immediately saw this, right at the top, filling the width of the entire page: THE OPERATIVES [in HUGE blue font, with … Continue reading →
Don’t get the tattoo in the first place…
…and you won’t have Melanie Griffith’s problem. Or, don’t get the divorce. I was at the beach the other day and I noticed that about half the people walking around seemed to be tattooed. Highly unattractive, IMHO. In other beach … Continue reading →
Catholic priests and sexual abuse rates
Let me make this clear at the outset: one case of child sexual abuse by a Catholic priest would be one too many. Priests and all other clergy are in a very special position of both trust and power that … Continue reading →
Next, they came for the bakers
We all knew this sort of thing was bound to happen: The Colorado’s Civil Rights Commission has ordered a suburban Denver baker named Jack Phillips to make wedding cakes for same-sex couples, finding that his religious objections do not supersede … Continue reading →
The returned
Another woman, who disappeared at the age of 15, has surfaced ten years later with a story of kidnapping. Some of the neighbors who knew her and her kidnapper as a couple don’t believe her story. They say that nothing … Continue reading →