I was sitting in one of my classes the other day and the topic of abortion came up. The discussion was whether or not the “Pro-Life movement” can honestly be considered just another matter of Civil Rights. Of course, the entire issue surrounding the debate over abortion is that some view a fetus as a non-living being, while others view it as a living, growing human. I pondered on this and had the desire to search for other ways to approach the issue. In the United States and other parts of the western world during the 18th and 19th centuries, there was a similar debate concerning slavery. Naturally it is greatly agreed upon that slavery is a brutal and terrible thing; how could people have ever thought it was okay to enslave another human for his or her own selfish desires? Furthermore, how could someone treat another person like that?
After the discussion had gone on for a few minutes I raised my hand and made the claim that abortion is strikingly similar to slavery. Right away I had an appalled fellow classmate reply, “No it is not! Not at all!” Forgive me but, I believe it is. The controversy is …
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMqnDw3dPpE[/youtube]Via our glorious White House-
How many people in your own home does it take to put up the Christmas tree? What about Christmas decorations? Some people do little, others go all out as far as the decor for the holiday season.
Yet, how many people do we know that must bring in outside help, in which over the course of FOUR DAYS can only transform ONE ROOM? Would 97 people be enough? Of course these folks were volunteers, yet resembled what we all know oh so well about government involvement in anything, even Christmas decorations.
Let me also note that the following video does not come from some evil, conservative, spying insider. It is on the official whitehouse.gov YouTube.
Wesley Pruden of The Washington Times writes a compelling article on how even the most liberal senators in the most ‘green’ states (drowning in an enormous borrowed monetary red, ahem- California) are sitting this year’s UN Global Warming Conference in Cancun out.
I guess last year’s frigid Copenhagen wasn’t the best PR move. Happy tanning in Cancun!
Check it out here.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkeoj6UFVTk[/youtube]
This video is very compelling. When I watched it, I loved how it seemed to not reflect only the feelings of a minority, but the feelings of an overwhelming American population. Will November bring about a major change in The United States? Will Republicans do any better than the democrats? In reality, no one knows, but what we do know is that liberal policies have shown to fail. It was not FDR’s “New Deal” that relieved America from The Great Depression, it was the demand for supplies that World War II ushered in. Liberal approach to economic problems seem to simply be nothing more than increased government spending, as this video very clearly shows. The greatness of America is not in its ability to make such liberal and social laws; the greatness of America is its people, who will stop at nothing to defend freedom and liberty when the time comes. America is a great nation where the majority of the power should rest in the people, and not the government. All of this is narrated through this video. Please watch and share your input.
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With the tyrannical Arizona illegal immigration law enraging everyone from East coast liberals to hapless Mexicans, few stop to consider the underlying causes of the conflict between increased security and the conservative ideology of its propagators.
Point in fact, America has always been the country where immigrants could start a new life. Government, for the most part, has struggled and often failed to regulate incoming foreigners. And until recently, it didn’t really matter. Sure, it’d be nice to know everyone’s legal name, have their birth certificate, and make sure they weren’t carrying infectious diseases. But for the majority of American history, the United States government has had other priorities.
Recently, however, the ever-expanding problem of citizen entitlement has pushed border conflicts to new levels of partisan intensity. Conservatives paradoxically push for more regulation, more exclusivity, and more fences of bureaucracy for would-be immigrants to climb.
Perhaps they’re forced to. The Government has exponentially increased benefits available to citizens and stepped up enforcement to make sure that laborers are working in humane conditions. Naturally, this makes U.S. citizenship one of the best financial deals on Earth. With expanding health care rights, the deal is only getting better.
Of course, if a deal sounds …
Wabash Always Fights, and tonight is no exception. Tonight, three Republican Wabash men, running against strong candidates in three separate congressional districts, have had impressive showings. Todd Rokita, whose primary opponent Brandt Hershman was endorsed by the incumbent Congressman Steve Buyer, won an overwhelming victory tonight, taking 41% of the vote to Hershman’s 15%
The contrast is clear. Long before the polls showed Senator Bayh vulnerable and Dan Coats sensed the opportunity to return to Indiana to take his old seat back, long before John Hostettler decided to get back into politics, long before Todd Rokita or Mike Pence ever flirted with the idea of running for Senate, Marlin Stutzman was travelling the state, talking to Hoosiers, and spreading his message that politicians need to “change Washington, not America.”
Republican United States Senate candidate Richard Behney has been working on his stock answer to the question of illegal immigration.
First, in the Warsaw Senate debate, he implied, but stopped short of actually saying, that he would physically harm a metaphorical intruder “climbing through the back window” of his home instead of using the “front door.”
You know, there’s two facts about our country. One is, we are a nation of immigrants. That’s what makes us great. All different races, colors, cultures. We’re also a Republic of laws. And we live by the law. You know, if you come to my house, and the front light is on — the porch light’s on — you’re welcome. Come knock on the front door, open up, come on in. If I catch you climbing through the back window, in my house, I’m likely to, uh…we don’t need another YouTube moment but…you know, I don’t know what’s going on. You know, and while you’re in my house, I ask that you live by my house rules. And I would like that you speak English, thank you very much.
He then decided not …
This is being written on a manual typewriter. Even though everyone who reads this will see it on a computer screen, I assure you that as I compose these words I am using all the strength in my fingers to make metal typing levers fly up and whack an ink-covered ribbon with a loud clacking noise, moving the carriage forward another space and printing a letter on a physical piece of paper. Typing this way is indeed a challenge, but an intoxicating one—I imagine, rather like the challenge of drinking a fine wine for the first time. Anyway, I greatly look forward to improving my skill with this machine in the future.
As I use this portable printing press, the question of why must inevitably arise. In fact, a little thought (like Pope’s “little learning”) is enought to make it seem dangerously insane. Think of the computer technology that no one uses because it is obsolete. But when this technology was itself fresh out of the cradle, the manual typewriter I am using was already a dinosaur. In fact, it would have been rather ridiculous even back when the Web could only be used to communicate messages as simple …
People in the Crawfordsville area tuning into the Fox News Channel on cable this week will have noticed two new congressional campaign ads from familiar faces. Both Luke Messer (Wabash class of 1991) and Todd Rokita (class of 1992) have hit the airwaves over the past week, demonstrating that they are forces to be reckoned with in their respective primaries.
Rokita, running here in the fourth district to replace retiring Republican congressman Steve Buyer, is in an especially strong position. As the current Indiana Secretary of State, Rokita has name recognition that the other candidates (and there are many of them) lack. The latest poll taken from the district shows Rokita with a commanding lead — taking 40 percent of the vote, with his next closest challenger, State Senator Mike Young, pulling only 10 percent (and Buyer’s favored replacement, Brandt Hershman, thus far only receives 8 percent). The primary is not until May, and things could change quickly — Rokita, being the frontrunner, no doubt now has a huge target on his back, with thirteen challengers to shoot at it. But for the time being, the Rokita campaign must feel fairly …
