After the 9th Circuit court of appeals upheld a lower court’s decision to overturn California’s ban on same-sex marriage, it was widely assumed that the case would end up before the Supreme Court. I said as much myself yesterday. Albert Mohler explains that this may not in fact be the result. For the entire explanation, listen below: [audio:http://albertmohler.com/media/audio/totl/Podcast/20120208_TheBriefing.mp3] By the way, if you’re not signed up for Mohler’s daily podcast “The Briefing,” you need to be.

Speaking of media bias, Mollie Hemingway catalogues more examples of overtly biased reports about the dust-up between Planned Parenthood and The Komen foundation. She demonstrates just how extensive the bias has been. The examples that she adduces are as appalling as they are astonishing.

Bernie Goldberg has described media bias not as a conscious agenda on the part of news reporters, but as an unconscious worldview that inevitably comes to the surface in the way that the news gets reported. Many “straight” news reporters try to be objective, but their worldview nevertheless undermines those efforts in subtle but profound ways. Thus we have “liberal” media bias. What makes the bias so galling, however, is the inability of those reporters to be self-conscious of their own presuppositions in their reporting. The last two weeks of coverage about the two biggest abortion stories of the year has been particularly galling.

Mary Katharine Ham was right. Planned Parenthood is turning out to be “the Hotel California of charitable donations.” The Komen foundation has discovered that they can check in any time they like, but they will never be able to leave Planned Parenthood… so it seems. In my piece that I wrote Friday for my website and the Baptist Press, I questioned whether or not Komen has really reversed its decision to defund Planned Parenthood. After reading headlines all day reporting definitively that Komen had caved, I wondered if I was the only one seeing that Komen had left the door open to deny future funds to Planned Parenthood. After doing…

Nancy Brinker and the Board of Directors of Susan G. Komen for the Cure released a statement Friday that apparently reverses their decision to defund Planned Parenthood. The statement still has some ambiguity in it, and the full implications of this decision are not yet clear. Nevertheless, three things deserve comment:

I want everyone to be clear about what is happening right now to our nation’s leading breast cancer charity— Susan G. Komen for the Cure. They are being mugged by pro-abortion zealots who will not tolerate any criticism whatsoever of Planned Parenthood, the nation’s leading provider of elective abortions. Komen has given some grants to Planned Parenthood in the past but has now decided it can better spend its money by funding groups that actually provide mammograms. Planned Parenthood has some educational services related to breast cancer, and they give referrals for mammograms. But they don’t do mammograms themselves (see video below). Komen CEO Nancy Brinker said it this way,…

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports: Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, who scaled back campaign appearances to be with his 3-year-old daughter, Bella, at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said Sunday night the little girl was getting better and should be able to go home in a few days. Speaking to Florida supporters by phone from Bella’s hospital room, Santorum said she’d had a rough 36 hours with pneumonia, but was awake, alert and back to being a “beautiful, happy girl.” Read the rest here.

Here is a follow-up from my last post. From ABC News: The reason Bella Santorum was admitted to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Saturday night is because she has pneumonia in both of her lungs, a campaign aide told ABC News.