Michigan may ban abortion

The South Dakota abortion ban sailed through the legistlature this past week and is now favorably sitting on the desk of Governor Mike rounds. This law is the most restrictive abortion ban passed since Roe v. Wade. It contains only one provision, the life of the mother, as an exception to the abortion ban. Many states wanting to follow suit.
Missouri Senator, Jason Crowell, R-Cape Girardeau, propsed a similiar ban today in his legislature today.

A movement has sprung up in Michigan to illegalize abortion, headed by the Michigan Personhead Amendment.

Georgia is also considering similiar legislation.

President Bush has commented on the South Dakota legislation, saying he disagrees in the number of exception.

Asked about the provisions in the state law, Bush replied, "Well, that, of course, is a state law, but my position has always been three exceptions: rape, incest and the life of the mother."

Dubai Ports

Dr. Jerome Corsi has some excellent things to say about the Dubai Ports agreement:

Dubai has put up a "Welcome Here" sign for the billions of dollars the millionaire mullahs and their cronies have stolen from the Iranian people. Dubai has served as a financial center and country of transit for al Qaeda terrorists, including the hijackers who flew the airplanes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 9/11. Dubai was one of the few countries in the Middle East to openly endorse the Taliban in Afghanistan. A group known as the Dubai Action Committee for the Support of the Intifada has worked with Islamic charitable organizations to funnel funds from the United States to Hamas. The list goes on.

However, a few supposedly conservative notables have sold out:

Sellouts.

Bill O'Rielly

Laurence Kudlow

Robert Novak

Planet's Population to hit 6.5 billion

Livescience.com has calculated that the world's population will hit 6.5 billion this Saturday. While I think this statistic is irrelevant to daily life, I found the terminology used in the article quite biased:

A population milestone is about to be set on this jam-packed planet.

On Saturday, Feb. 25, at 7:16 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, the population here on this good Earth is projected to hit 6.5 billion people.

"This jam-packed planet"? Our planet is far from jam-packed. According to the National Center for Policy Analysis:

If the entire population of the world were put into the land area of Texas, each person would have an area equal to the floor space of a typical U.S. home and the population density of Texas would be about the same as Paris, France.

Doesn't sound too jam-packed to me. In fact, world population numbers are often inflated for the purpose of instituting population control programs. Pierre Chaunu, professor emeritus of the Sorbonne and member of the French Academy, says that African population figures are inflated, he doubts China's figures, and notes that in the former USSR, where there is one live birth for every 7 abortions, 292 million people have never existed. Then there's the 80-120 million killed under communism who haven't been officially recognised as being not part of their countries' population statistics.

So why the population explosion scare? Chaunu says the international agencies have to justify the huge sums spent on imposing authoritarian birth control programmes in many countries. So they claim imminent danger for the planet through 'over-population'. He also indicated that a "certain number of North American experts play with fear: fear of invasion and asphyxiation by the citizens of the third world." In plain English, they're playing the race card: there's not too many people, just too many of THEM

US Professor denies Holocaust

Northwestern University Professor Arthur Butz recently supported statements made by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who called the Holocaust a myth. An American professor at a respected university believes the Holocaust did not happen.

The Pennsylvania Independent reported that several Northwester factulty members have denounced Butz's stance.

Northwestern University faculty and students continue to publicly voice their opposition to Holocaust revisionist and McCormick Prof. Arthur Butz. "Butz's Holocaust denial is an affront to our humanity and our standards as scholars, and hence mandates our censure," reads a letter signed by 60 members of the newly merged Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

No wonder our colleges are so liberal. Human Events has an excellent blog about liberal bias and indoctrination on our college campuses.

Abramoff overview

Dr. Marvin Olasky wrote an excellent overview of his in-depth study into the Abramoff scandal. While I'm sure this scandal pales in comparison to many other fund-shifting ventures (i.e. Ted Kennedy), the startling fact here is that Jack Abramoff and Ralph Reed seem to have manipulated their relationship with Christian organizations for financial gain. You read the article, and make your own judgements.

If it is all true, one has no trouble understanding why the American people, especially church-goers, are skeptical of politicians. For a political advocate to manipulate the Christian community for the purpose of big business and personal gain, is abhorrent.

Deadly cartoons

The Islamic reaction to cartoon drawings of Mohammed is startling. Consider this map supplied by Google.

I think that Flemming Rose, one of the publishers of the cartoons in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, wrote an excellent response in the Washington Post to all the critics.

The United States has an increasing Muslim population, especially in the Dearborn, Michigan area. While not every Islamic follower is bent on America's destruction, some of key figures, including Imam Mohammed Ali Elahi, the director of the Islamic House of Worship just outside of Dearborn. The Islamic House of Worship is one of the largest mosques in America.

Debbie Schlussel, a Detroit-based columnist and attorney, was the first to call attention to Elahi's ties to Iranian government officials.

“Mr. Elahi, I believe, is an agent of the government in Iran. Not only does he have sympathies for them, but he did work for them. And I believe he's still working for them,” Schlussel said. “I went to his Web site, and I found even more outrageous pictures of him with Ayatollah Khomeini, who we know held many Americans hostage for 444 days…We have pictures of him delivering prayers to the Iranian parliament. We have pictures of him with the former President of Iran, Mr. Khatami. We have pictures of him with Mr. Karrubi, who is the speaker of the house of the Iranian parliament.”

Erick Stakelbeck, a reporter for CBN news, writes about his personal interview with Imam Elahi.

Regarding Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent call to wipe Israel off the map, Elahi wrote:

--"It is very clear that Mr. Ahmadinejad was not making an anti-Semitic statement."

--"The Iranian president's quip can best be understood in the context of the Declaration of Independence."

--and, "Israel must stop instigating violent conflicts in the Muslim world."

Another Elahi column described Hamas founder Ahmed Yassin as a "Palestinian spiritual leader, (who) had a heart full of love for humanity." Yet another compared the Iranian constitution to that of the United States.

Eric also has a national security watch with lots of great information here.

Hillary for '08?

I realize that every person has their bad picture days. But I can't help reposting this picture of presidential hopeful Sen. Clinton. I think its rather difficult to caption the image. Perhaps her husband just told her he is really a Republican.

I'll have a contest, what do you think the caption should be? I'll post the best ones on this page in a few days.