I gave my analysis last week of President Obama’s proposed revision of Obamacare’s abortion mandate. I said then that the revision is not a compromise, despite the favorable media coverage that would suggest otherwise. It’s just more of the same, and it still implicates Christian business owner’s in the killing of unborn children. The clearest analysis of the new rules that I have read, however, comes from Michael Gerson in today’s Washington Post. Here’s the bottom line:
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Wise words about avoiding student loan debt
What would happen if students gave up the quest for elite college degrees and the high price tags that come with them? They might end up like Arthur Brooks, President of the American Enterprise Institute and a former tenured professor at Syracuse University. Brooks earned his college degree through correspondence courses that only cost him about $10,000. He spent about $5,000 on his Master’s before finishing a Ph.D. with a fellowship. He finished the whole process with no debt at the end. His career has shown that it really is possible to rub two sticks together to make fire, and that is exactly what he has done.
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Thank you, Kathleen Parker: Women are different
I wanted to cheer when I read Kathleen Parker’s Washington Post op-ed about women in combat. Parker not only has the audacity to say that men and women are different, she also says that those differences should be celebrated. This is a courageous statement in the pages of one of our nation’s leading newspapers. It is simply anathema to utter such things in such venues, yet she has done it. She writes:
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NBC News misled us about American support for Roe
Earlier this week, NBC and The Wall Street Journal released survey results showing that for the first time a majority of Americans want abortion to be legal. The NBC News report characterized the results this way: 54 percent of adults say that abortion should be legal either always or most of the time, while a combined 44 percent said it should be illegal – either with or without exceptions… In addition, a whopping 70 percent of Americans oppose the Roe v. Wade decision being overturned, including 57 percent who feel strongly about this.
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NBC reports Roe v. Wade decision (January 22, 1973)
This early report reveals that very few people realized how expansive the Roe decision would prove to be. On the same day that Roe was decided, the Supreme Court also handed down a decision on Doe v. Bolton, which in effect did away with any trimester limitations on abortion. Roe and Doe together ensured that a woman would have a right to abortion for any reason throughout all nine months of pregnancy. Since that time, Roe v. Wade has presided over the deaths of 55 million unborn children in America. Evangelicals were caught flat-footed by the Roe decision. Only the Roman Catholics were speaking for life in those early days.…
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“3801 Lancaster”: Don’t turn away from this horror
3801 Lancaster is a documentary film about Dr. Kermit Gosnell—one of the most infamous abortionists in U. S. History. Dr. Gosnell made himself a millionaire by selling abortion services to poor minority women in west Philadelphia. He not only presided over the deaths of countless unborn babies. He also oversaw a filthy clinic in which women died and in which babies were born alive and murdered. Gosnell was arrested in January 2011, and he is now in prison awaiting trial.
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My Quick Take on the Lance Armstrong Interview
I just finished watching Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Lance Armstrong. The whole event has been a public spectacle, but it has also been a very human one. In my view, Armstrong fell short of the contrition required of a man guilty of the things that he has done. Here’s what came across to me in the interview. 1. Armstrong made his confession because he was forced to. His lies had been so thoroughly exposed by multiple witnesses, that there was simply nowhere else for him to hide. There was no credible denial he could have made at this point. He didn’t want this confession. It was forced upon him.
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The Cruel Punk of Manti Te’o
The news is everywhere. Notre Dame’s star linebacker Manti Te’o had a virtual girlfriend who turned out to be more virtual than actual girlfriend. She was a part of his “narrative” last year, as her tragic “death” was credited with being an inspiration for Manti’s successful season.
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ESPN Apologizes for Commentary; Season over
You know it’s a blowout when the commentators stop commenting on the game and start commenting on the quarterback’s girlfriend. That’s what happened last night during Alabama’s rout of Notre Dame. As the camera flashed to the stands and focused on A.J. McCarron’s girlfriend former Miss Alabama, Brent Musberger and Kirk Herbstreit offered kudos to McCarron for such a favorable match. Today, ESPN issued an apology and admitted that the commentary seemed to go a bit too far. It was a sideshow during what turned out to be a very boring game. It was so boring that people still aren’t talking about the game but the sideshow!
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Every life is beautiful
This one got to me… in the best kind of way. I’m confident it will touch you too. It’s a story that The New York Times did on a teacher here in Louisville, Kentucky. And he’s teaching the students of Louisville Male High School more than just physics. Take time to sit down and watch this from beginning to end. (HT: 22words)