By Brian Myers
The latest issue of People magazine has the Duggar family featured in its cover story. The Duggars, as you probably already know, are a large family also featured in a reality television show with Mom (Michelle), Dad (Jim Bob), and their now 19 children. The aforementioned magazine cover has a picture of Michelle and Jim [...]
By Shane Vander Hart
Some miscellaneous links and items of interest around the ‘net for your weekend.
Reformed Meditations: The Perfect Murder
Fox News: Palin Goes After Obama at Tea Party Convention
Al Mohler: Masculinity in a Can, Fight Club at Church, and the Crisis of Manhood
American Thinker: Our National Blind Spot by Mark W. Hendrickson
BreakPoint: The Devil and [...]
By Shane Vander Hart
Some miscellany from over the weekend. Hard to believe it has been a couple of weeks since I’ve posted one of these:
Polly Two Cents: You can’t listen when you are talking
Des Moines Register: State ‘double dipping’ on the rise
Motivation Truth: Levi: When Lying Dogs Won’t Sleep
Wintery Knight: 20,000 Pro-lifers march in Washington, D.C. [...]
By JP Murie
I hadn’t allowed myself to think of it as a baby. When I came to terms with the reality that there was a person inside of me, I wondered, “How can I destroy a life?” I just knew I couldn’t. [...]
By Shane Vander Hart
Ann Neumann didn’t like yesterday’s post on the Stupak Amendment. Complaining about my lack of compromise. Sorry, when it comes to the sanctity of life, I don’t compromise. She notes:
There is no compromise when your work is to eliminate the most common medical procedure for women in the US.
When abortion is [...]
By Shane Vander Hart
Friday night Governor Palin spoke at an event for Wisconsin Right to Life. Cameras (except for the one that took the picture above), and any recording “gadget” were not allowed in by the organizers. Media were allowed in (they just didn’t get in free), and Bill Glauber of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel [...]
By Shane Vander Hart
This isn’t surprising to see with the public reaction to the stimulus plan and healthcare. Confirmed by Gallup in a poll released today:
Conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals in the American populace in 2009, confirming a finding that Gallup first noted in June. Forty percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, [...]
By Shane Vander Hart
Some stuff I’m reading while watching Iowa play Michigan State tonight. Go Hawkeyes! If they win this game it will mark the first time they’ve been 8-0. Anyway, here’s the latest links.
NextGen GOP: Obama and the Media
William Jacobson: The Most Monumental Power Grab You Never Heard About
La Shawn Barber: A Person Among Us
FuturePundit: [...]
By Shane Vander Hart
John Piper contrasting abortion and Minnesota laws on cruelty to animals brings up a great point:
In the “Minnesota Cruelty to Animals Statutes . . . Police Regulations,” Statute 343.21 subdivision 1 says, “No person shall . . . unjustifiably injure, maim, mutilate or kill any animal.”
Subdivision 7 says, “No person shall [...]
By Shane Vander Hart
I attended the Conservative Breakfast Club at the Republican Party of Iowa headquarters this morning. The speaker was Doug Gross, local attorney and former gubernatorial candidate. He spoke to us some findings of a poll he commissioned for the Iowa First Foundation.
He noted that the Republican party has a “branding” problem. In [...]