Clearing the tabs
By Matthew Hoy on November 14, 2008
Here are some stories that have been cluttering up my Firefox browser tabs and might interest you:
- What's the matter with Kansas? Some Obamatons are already pushing for a federal holiday for their revered leader.
- Gazillionaire Warren Buffett wants the Estate Tax raised and the rich to pay more in federal taxes -- then why is he giving all his money to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and avoiding paying taxes on those gifts?
- That Minnesota senate race is going to be a squeaker, and here's the guy who's the chief referee:
- Speaking of the Minnesota senate race, John Lott analyzes the numbers and discovers that these "discovered" votes aren't random, as you would suspect if there was no hanky-panky going on.
- The link to this article was buried in the post below regarding Douglas Kmiec, but it has some numbers that I want to call your attention to:
- There are a number of studies in peer reviewed academic journals that indicate that restrictions on public funding reduce abortion rates. In fact, there is close to a consensus on this subject among social scientists. I have conducted three studies which have examined state abortion data from almost every state for every year from 1985 to 1999. Each study finds that these state level public funding restrictions reduce the incidence of abortions by over 10 percent.
- Informed consent laws require that women seeking abortions receive information about public and private sources of support for single mothers, health risks, and fetal development. Between 1992 and 2000, 27 states have enacted informed consent laws. Abortion data obtained from both the pro-abortion Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) and the officially neutral Centers for Disease Control (CDC) indicate that informed consent laws reduce the incidence of abortion.
- During the past 35 years, the pro-life movement has made some real progress--progress that pro-lifers could at times do a better job of advertising. During the 1990s more states enacted parental-involvement laws, waiting periods, and informed-consent laws. More importantly, the number of abortions has fallen in 12 out of the past 14 years and the total number of abortions has declined by 21 percent since 1990. These gains are largely due to pro-life political victories at the federal level in the 1980s and at the state level in the 1990s, both of which have made it easier to pass pro-life legislation.
- Students at UCSD apparently walked out of class today to protest Prop. 8, which reaffirmed marriage in California as being between one man and one woman. On the radio, one of the organizers' demands was UCSD change its position on the Proposition from "Neutral" to "Opposed." Would someone like to inform these students that the election was last week?
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Where do people get the idea that Obama is qualified to be President? They knew little about his politics and only voted for him because he was black. He was in the Senate only three years and accomplished little except glib speeches. He ran on a record of promises which he can't, or won't, fulfill and now is placing liberal illuminati left-wing loonies to his cabinet who will try and push issues through that will be extremely detrimental to this country, i.e. gay marriage, cutting funds for the military, restrictions on guns and his advocacy for abortion up to nine months. This is the kind of President they want? He stands for everything that stinks in this country and they're utterly stupid to have voted for him!