Date Night at the Abortion Movie
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 21st, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Date Night at the Abortion Movie
Heather Wilhelm, RealClearPolitics
Earlier this week, I did something terrible: I talked my husband into going to a screening of an “abortion romantic comedy” with me. It was his birthday. To my credit, we went to a manly steak dinner beforehand. Also to my credit, I usually have decent taste in movies. But over the past few weeks, I’ve seen glowing review after glowing review for “Obvious Child,” a film, as The Guardian describes it, “about a girl who gets an abortion and lives happily ever after.” Variety calls it a “fresh and funny chronicle of a one-night stand with…
U.S. to Send Up to 300 Military Advisers to Iraq, Obama Says
Alexis Simendinger, RealClearPolitics
President Obama has ordered “up to” 300 American military and other specialists into Iraq to “train, advise and equip” the Iraqi military to battle Sunni jihadists who have seized control of Iraqi towns as part of a religious-based sectarian clash. The president said his decision Thursday to deploy intelligence units and other advisers to Iraq was intended to be limited as to scope and objectives. And he acknowledged Americans’ deep misgivings about risking more U.S. lives in a country American forces exited in late 2011. But Obama set no time limits on the new…
Missing IRS Emails; White House Maker Faire; Lady Liberty
Carl M. Cannon, RealClearPolitics
Good morning. It’s Thursday, June 19, 2014, and 129 years ago today the Statue of Liberty arrived at its permanent home in New York Harbor. Officially called “Liberty Enlightening the World,” she was the brainchild of a Paris native named Edouard de Laboulaye. A leading French abolitionist, Laboulaye’s original inspiration wasn’t America’s welcoming immigration policies — but rather the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, and the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery. It was designed by French sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, who personally chose…
