Now, with even more protesters! Maggie Thatcher’s funeral is going to be a raucous event. The more disgusting members of the U.K. left threw parties at the announcement of Thatcher’s death. Just imagine what’s going to happen now that Netanyahu is attending the funeral. (A personal invitation from the family: Good on them!) Oh, and now the founder of the parties is comparing Thatcher to Hitler. The new morality: Americans celebrating the death of Osama bin Laden, a terrorist who killed thousands and is partly responsible for the jihadi wars going on today: Bad. Celebrating the death of a woman who was democratically elected to run her nation, but whose actions you disagreed with: Good.
Despicable. But just wait until the funeral. That ought to bring out the blackshirts of the left.
If you need a palate cleanser, read Commentary’s reports on Margaret Thatcher–the woman who rescued the U.K.’s economy.
Gee, let’s arm these guys! The Syrian rebels are all in with al Qaeda. The American response? We’re going to give them more weapons. Awesome foreign policy, Obama.
News you probably haven’t heard of: Did you know there’s a lurid trial going on that covers the murders of babies and the maiming of women? Of course you didn’t, because it’s an abortion doctor on trial for late-term abortions. Illegal late-term abortions performed after the babies were 24 weeks old.
Here is the headline the Associated Press put on a story about his testimony that he saw 100 babies born and then snipped: “Staffer describes chaos at PA abortion clinic.”
“Chaos” isn’t really the story here. Butchering babies that were already born and were older than the state’s 24-week limit for abortions is the story. There is a reason the late Democratic senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan called this procedure infanticide.
… You don’t have to oppose abortion rights to find late-term abortion abhorrent or to find the Gosnell trial eminently newsworthy. This is not about being “pro-choice” or “pro-life.” It’s about basic human rights.
But it doesn’t fit the narrative. The narrative says that abortions don’t kill babies, they kill “clumps of cells” or fetuses. A six-month fetus? That’s known as a premature baby in other occasions. I don’t think we should allow 24-week abortions at all. But then, that’s another of my views that has evolved over the years.
Pigs must be flying: Human Rights Watch is criticizing Hamas for not launching an investigation into their public murder of so-called “collaborators” (an all-inclusive term that is used throughout the Palestinian territories to settle scores while blaming the murders on Israel). But don’t worry, there won’t be any further calls for investigation or punishment. It’s not like Israel killed them, or anything.
I see we have more in agreement than I would have suspected, like on abortion. While the left goes too far, I no longer find fault with unions demanding too high pay, but only because instead of part of the largesse going to union members, now thanks to legislating most unions out of existence, the largesse ALL goes to the company brass with their huge compensation packages. Then it goes overseas to tax havens and building factories overseas, and much less of it goes to taxes due to the all the loopholes the rich can take advantage of but blue collar workers can’t. At least by giving it to union members, it trapped wealth in the US and in local communities where the factories were, and didn’t build factories in foreign countries.
The last part about unions was in response to your Thatcher comments, who busted the unions down to size and lowered taxes, and that program was copied by Reagan. Thatcher and Reagan were both Calvinists.
The last part about unions was in response to your Thatcher comments, who busted the unions down to size and lowered taxes, and that program was copied by Reagan. Thatcher and Reagan were both Calvinists to the core on economics.
“The Syrian rebels are all in with al Qaeda. The American response? We’re going to give them more weapons. Awesome foreign policy, Obama.”
It’s almost like the administration was waiting until the rebels threw in with Al Qaida before deciding to send arms as well as “non-lethal” aid.
Really, I see no need for the US to send arms. The rebels are getting lots of weapons, including late-model MANPAD missiles for shooting down aircraft, from Libya on Qatar’s and the Wahhabis’ dime.