Politico reports on Democratic National Convention planning documents that they've seen and how Barack Obama's party is planning to highlight the so-called "hot-button" issues like gay rights, abortion, Planned Parenthood funding, and immigration. Politico reports: The most innovative — and harshest — element of the preliminary program is a nightly “social contrast” in which two people describe their personal experience with a hot-button [...]
Actress Elizabeth Banks is plumping for Barack Obama and Planned Parenthood. The Hill reports on a pro-Obama ad featuring the actress, in which the star of Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Role Models and What to Expect When Expecting says: "So for that little 5 percent that Mitt Romney decides he doesn't agree with, he's going to take away cancer screenings? What [...]
The Newseum's top ten newspaper covers today are on Chick-fil-A. (HT: Michelle Malkin) The Washington Post reported customer support for the restaurant made for brisk business and Rick Warren tweeted "#ChickfilA has already set a world record today." A quick perusal of the internet will find long lines of customers in stores and drive-throughs. It was pretty obviously a good day to be a Chick-fil-A [...]
The New York Sun editorializes on the decision by New York City under Mayor Michael Bloomberg's regime that hospital maternity wards must restrict choice -- not the choice of a mother to kill her baby, but how she feeds it: The latest from New York’s commissioner of mental hygiene is that maternity wards in New York are going to start locking up [...]