Actor Jason Alexander -- George from Seinfeld -- posted a long rant against guns in America in the wake of the shooting last week in Colorado. In his concluding paragraph, Alexander includes this sentence: "Every life is precious." Yet, he was among the celebrities who announced he stood with Planned Parenthood.
That's what I think when I read this story. But seriously, Barack Obama's line about Washington giving taxpayer money to abortion giant Planned Parenthood -- "I think that is a bad idea. I’ve got two daughters. I want them to control their own health care choices" -- is baffling. Really, will the daughters of a former U.S. president need taxpayer-subsidized birth control? [...]
As many in the media call for some vague "leadership" from our politicians in the aftermath of the gun violence in Toronto, few are willing to spell out what kind of leadership is needed precisely. I would suggest some honesty about the role of the breakdown of family and growth of fatherlessness among some populations in the city. As our friend Lou Iacobelli [...]
The story of Dalton McGuinty's attempt to bully schools and families into accepting his pro-gay agenda through the clandestine Safer Schools Act which purports to battle bullying but is really about normalizing homosexuality appears in the July issue of our paper. On the law's stated focus, supposedly bullying, the bill comes up short as it focuses on so-called homophobic bullying and does [...]
Kathy Shaidle reviewed Richard Stursberg's The Tower of Babble: Sins, Secrets and Successes Inside the CBC in the July issue of The Interim. Shaidle concludes her review: I defy anyone who reads The Tower of Babble to think up a “solution” to the CBC “problem” that doesn’t involve controlled demolition. It would be fitting, however, if the Corpse was miraculously revived by producing a [...]
Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition has excerpts from and thoughts on the nationwide examination of the euthanasia law in the Netherlands which was just published in the Lancet on July 11, 2012. Must-read study and a must-read blog post. This phrase from the Lancet article should be frightening to all: "The decreased frequency of ending of life without explicit patient request..." Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide without the [...]
Jim Goad at Taki Magazine: I started to notice that it was nearly impossible to endorse abortion without in some way supporting basic eugenic precepts. It’s difficult to argue that all living humans are equal if you also support snuffing the unborn in the womb because they’re “unwanted.” Goad says plenty of other politically incorrect things about the South, cousin-marriage, and race, [...]
From Live Action: @LiveActionFilms: Scratch a U.N. women's conference, and you'll find a whole lot of people agitating for #abortion worldwide http://ow.ly/cbS0j It's notable that the Commission on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women doesn't care about gendercide in South and East Asia and that the Women's Commissar is insulting to pro-life women.
The United Nations has declared July 11 World Population Day. But according to the UN Population Fund, it is not a day to celebrate. Rather, it is a time to plan for fewer people. Or as the UNFPA euphemistically puts it, their campaigns seek to convince the world of the "essential part that reproductive health plays in creating a just and equitable world." Over at ProWomanProLife, [...]
Fantastic video of Kathy Shaidle (AKA Five Feet of Fury) and David Menzies talking about a preacher who was harassed by police at the Pride Parade in Toronto while actual laws are broken literally behind the backs of cops. Shaidle says police will have to change their motto from "Our cops are tops" to "Our cops are bottoms."
The New Abortion Caravan completed its cross country trip (Vancouver to Ottawa). Here's The Interim's coverage from the July issue of the paper. We will have more in a forthcoming edition of the paper.
Abortion proponents deny that abortion is used as a form of birth control, but Andrea Mrozek has found proof -- from the horse's mouth, so to speak. Erin Gloria Ryan writes at the feminist Jezebel website: "Until mass abstinence is feasible or permanent pregnancy is desired, sustainable, or safe, though, the best options women have to control their reproductive health are contraception and abortion."
The argument of the Independent Women's Forum against Washington's involvement in distributing contraception has been summarized by Reason. Three key points: contraception is widely available, with various price-points so it is affordable to all, and the only job the federal government has is ensure safety and protect patents. It could be argued that the Food and Drug Administration does not do enough to warn [...]
The American Spectator's Daniel J. Flynn doesn't like the Library of Congress's "Books That Shaped America." That exhibit has 88 books and none are "explicitly conservative" although there is plenty of liberal fare (Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Betty Friedan's The Feminist Mystique, Randy Shilts's And the Band Played On). Many of these left-wing books have been influential, but as Flynn points out, the inclusion of Margaret Sanger is [...]
The American Spectator's Daniel Allott notes that Georgetown Magazine, Georgetown University's alumni magazine, reports former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue, a Georgetown grad chair of the university's borad of directors, has given $5 million for a variety of programs. Georgetown Magazine reports: The Tagliabues’ $5 million gift will be divided equally among five areas: need-based undergraduate scholarships, scholarships for student-athletes in both men’s and women’s [...]