08.31.08
60 Minutes interview with Obama and Biden
Stuart Shephard’s Prayers Answered with 115 mph of Irony
Earlier this month, Stuart Shephard, director of digital media at Focus on the Family made a video in which he advocated praying for a torrential downpour to interrupt Barack Obama’s open-air acceptance speech at Denver’s INVESCO Field during the Democratic Convention this past Thursday:
08.30.08
On Sarah Palin: Let Kristol Be Kristol
A spectre is haunting the liberal elites of New York and Washington–the spectre of a young, attractive, unapologetic conservatism, rising out of the American countryside, free of the taint (fair or unfair) of the Bush administration and the recent Republican Congress, able to invigorate a McCain administration and to govern beyond it.
That spectre has a name–Sarah Palin, the 44-year-old governor of Alaska chosen by John McCain on Friday to be his running mate. There she is: a working woman who’s a proud wife and mother; a traditionalist in important matters who’s broken through all kinds of barriers; a reformer who’s a Republican; a challenger of a corrupt good-old-boy establishment who’s a conservative; a successful woman whose life is unapologetically grounded in religious belief; a lady who’s a leader.
Oh, Bill Kristol, will you ever be right about anything?
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08.25.08
Obama/Biden: Was it Double or Nothing on Change?
For this Biden can help Obama shore up the Democratic Older Voters, which he is still not doing as well as he should to win in November. Thus, sacrifice change.
Let’s be honest here. We either have change or not. This is not change, but it is a good ticket.
This Week With Barack Obama: This Week With ‘The Presumptive Democratic Nominee’ Barack Obama, August 17-23, 2008
I disagree with the above blogger’s sentiment. When we strongly support a candidate or position, we tend to believe that everyone else must support it too, and those who do not either lack vision and clarity or have a mental defect that prevents them from seeing the obvious.
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08.23.08
Andrew Sullivan: When An Embryo Becomes A Human Person
Here’s how Steven Pinker describes the actual science in “The Blank Slate”:
“Just as a microscope reveals that a straight edge is really ragged, research on human reproduction shows that the ‘moment of conception’ is not a moment at all. Sometimes several sperm penetrate the outer membrane of the egg, and it takes time for the egg to eject the extra chromosomes … Even when a single sperm enters, its genes remain separate from those of the egg for a day or more, and it takes yet another day or so for the newly merged genome to control the cell. So the ‘moment’ of conception is in fact a span of twenty-four to forty-eight hours.”
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The assumption of Obama’s critics is that a president should always reduce complex issues to simple black and white truisms, unfounded in reality. That’s why they supported Bush. And that’s why they’re supporting McCain.
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Bit your tongue, Andrew! Americans won’t fall for your Satanist explanations of conception. John McCain knows that every sperm contains within it the complete make up of a good Christian baby. It’s all explained in this cogent diagram from 1695, when McCain was barely an adolescent:
