Obama’s Supposititious Facts
When the recent Institute of Medicine recommendations came to light last Tuesday, there was a deluge of media commentary that followed.
When the recent Institute of Medicine recommendations came to light last Tuesday, there was a deluge of media commentary that followed.
Do you hear it? It begins as a whimpering, sniveling sound and peaks with a vicious roar, before dying down once again to a whimper. There it is again! And again!
The brutal killing of adorable Caylee Anthony and the subsequent acquittal of her mother, Casey, has evoked nearly every kind of emotion one could imagine.
The recent Archdiocese of Boston scandal surrounding St. Cecilia’s parish Mass honoring LGBT pride has given Catholics at large a wonderful opportunity to sift through our moral obligations.
It came as a complete surprise to me when the Archdiocese of Boston backed down on its statement regarding the “All Are Welcome” pro-homosexual Mass which was scheduled to be celebrated at St.
Sometimes Gallup polls strike me the wrong way. One of the most recent, entitled “Cloning Still Unpopular: Gallup Poll” falls into that category.
Encouragement comes about in all sorts of ways, the traditional and the nontraditional—including postings on Facebook pages, videos on YouTube and through many other venues that just a few short years ago were unheard of. Imagine, for example, “tweeting” a friendly greeting ten years ago. Nobody would have known what you were talking about.
I recently heard a guest on a political talk show trying to defend taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood by saying that we should worry less about abortion and concentrate on helping people who are “already here.”
Pro-life billboards across the nation are igniting controversy by providing data about the alarmingly disproportionate numbers of African-American babies aborted each year.
According to Wikipedia, “Dragon’s Breath” is a type of pyrotechnic shotgun round that produces a visual effect “similar to that of a short-ranged flamethrower.”
Norman Mailer, the author to whom the creation of the word factoid is credited, explained that factoids are “facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper, creations which are not so much lies as a product to manipulate emotion in the Silent Majority.”
In a pathetic attempt to cover up the fact that morning-after pills, emergency contraceptives and most birth control pills are actually early-term abortions, the abortion lobby is now attempting to redefine pregnancy.