Politics Blog

This campaign is downright disgusting:

(CNSNews.com) - Ms. Magazine’s latest pro-abortion message invites women and girls who have undergone the procedure to submit their names for inclusion in the magazine and sign an online petition stating that “I have had an abortion.”

The petition targets the recent South Dakota abortion ban, which has been stayed until voters in the state decide on the November ballot whether they want to overturn the ban.

“Whatever happens in South Dakota, 17 states now have trigger laws or pre-Roe bans that will ban abortion if the Supreme Court were to reverse Roe v. Wade,” Ms. Magazine warns.

It’s a I-Killed-My-Baby-athon:

The Ms. Magazine petition asks females to “publicly join the millions of women in the United States who have had an abortion in demanding a repeal of laws that restrict women’s reproductive freedom.” Then the magazine asks for money.

Those scary pro-lifers:

The Ms. Magazine campaign, Brown said is fueled by fears of the growing “pro-life” movement.

“The biggest reason why they are doing this is because they are petrified,” said Brown. “The pro life movement has made tremendous advances in Congress, in the state legislatures and it continues to move forward. And I think that some of this is to frighten the complacent woman who has had an abortion into thinking that if they don’t do something they will lose their ‘right to abortion.’”

Pro-Life organization responds:

Judie Brown, president of the American Life League, told Cybercast News Service that the pitch from Ms. Magazine takes “absurdity to a new level with a campaign bragging about their past abortions.”

“These women are celebrating an act of violence that has proven traumatic for millions of mothers and deadly for their innocent pre-born children,” Brown stated. “We know from all the research that’s been done that most woman who have aborted their children are number one, not proud of what they did, and number two, are not going to come out and publicly say that they are,” she said.

No, not Bush. Busch, as in Professor Andrew Busch:

For four decades, the Republican electoral realignment kept rolling due in part to the party’s substantial efforts to persuade the nation of conservative principles. Because Reagan made a persistent argument, today’s 30-44 year-olds who came of age during his presidency are some of America’s most Republican-leaning voters. There is no evidence that a similar “Bush cohort” will arise: in 2004, the youngest voters gave John Kerry his biggest margins. Reagan’s oft-repeated vision of limited constitutional government played an important role in putting Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito on their path to the Supreme Court. It is far from clear that Mr. Bush will inspire the next generation of conservative jurists to take their place.

Read the whole thing. It’s a conservative call to arms. Conservatives need to stand up for the principles that got them here in the first place!

Much of the current conservative malaise is the fault of the Republican Congress, which has become an institution of pork, incumbency, and big government. If Republicans lose either house of Congress this year, it will be entirely their own fault.

Absolutely fascinating:

Millions of men like Mr. Beggerow — men in the prime of their lives, between 30 and 55 — have dropped out of regular work. They are turning down jobs they think beneath them or are unable to find work for which they are qualified, even as an expanding economy offers opportunities to work.
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Many of these men could find work if they had to, but with lower pay and fewer benefits than they once earned, and they have decided they prefer the alternative. It is a significant cultural shift from three decades ago, when men almost invariably went back into the work force after losing a job and were more often able to find a new one that met their needs.

Somewhere, my grandfather is turning over in his grave. I simply can not imagine adopting this type of attitude toward working.

Instead of preparing for eventual combat in Iraq and Afgahnistan, some National Guard Soldiers are being used to clean out stables:

“Authorities say troops near El Paso, Texas, are doing video surveillance and tending to horses.”

This is not funny, it is very sad. Some of the soldiers deployed to the border will be in Iraq and Afgahnistan in the next 24 months. Some of those soldiers will never return.

The worst thing you can do to any soldier is to “steal training.”