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From Mediaite, quoting Herman Cain on abortion: No, it comes down to is, it’s not the government’s role — or anybody else’s role — to make that decision…so what I’m saying is, it ultimately gets down to a choice that that family or that mother has to make. Not me as president. Not some politician. [...]

From San Francisco Gate via Lew Rockwell of all places: Actor Mark Ruffalo has been placed on a terror advisory list by U.S. officials after organizing screenings for a new documentary about natural gas drilling. …his efforts to raise awareness and demand a stop to natural gas drilling reportedly attracted the attention of officials from [...]

Fox News on another attempt by Democrats to shut it down, with Congress being so desperate that they are now ignoring the existence of the remote control in their speeches: “I’m tired of the right and the left,” West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller said Wednesday during a Senate hearing on retransmission consent. “There’s a little [...]

Via Townhall Is Obama A Keynesian?

Apparently President Obama has been encouraging companies to keep existing insurance plans: As Obama administration officials put into place the first major wave of changes under the health care legislation, they have tried to defuse stiffening resistance — from companies like McDonald’s and some insurers — by granting dozens of waivers to maintain even minimal [...]

Sure sounds like one. From AP via the Repeal the 17th Amendment Blog: Legislation to turn down the volume on those loud TV commercials that send couch potatoes diving for their remote controls looks like it’ll soon become law. The Senate unanimously passed a bill late Wednesday to require television stations and cable companies to [...]

On a Wellesley, MA field trip, parents were tricked into having their kids pray at a mosque: Video embedded on xcopfly.com

From Science Magazine: Scientists studying sunspots for the past 2 decades have concluded that the magnetic field that triggers their formation has been steadily declining. If the current trend continues, by 2016 the sun’s face may become spotless and remain that way for decades—a phenomenon that in the 17th century coincided with a prolonged period [...]

In one of my previous posts regarding the Ground Zero mosque, I mentioned Catholic blogger Mark Shea and his support and comparison to restricting protests against Planned Parenthood. Tonight, I left the following comment on his blog (entitled Catholic & Enjoying It, which I also just added to my blogroll): What’s the difference between the [...]

From The Hill: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor predicted Thursday that a case involving WikiLeaks would likely come before the court. She said that the WikiLeaks “incident,” in which the group posted thousands of classified Afghanistan war documents online, “and others are going to provoke legislation that’s already being discussed in Congress, and so some [...]