A Flight of Moxy...To the Left

Billboards in Georgia are causing a stir, rightfully. The billboards feature a little black boy, with the tag: "Black Children are an Endangered Species." The message is clear, Black women are aborting too many children and that needs to stop. Pro-life organizations are using race to get a point across. In Georgia, black women are more likely to abort a fetus than a white woman. The billboards are designed to shame women and follow the line often used by anti-abortion groups. There is a need for education and parenting classes for women in Black communities, that is known, but it seems to me this is taking it a step too far. Here is a snippet from an article by AP's Errin Haines: "The effort is sponsored by Georgia Right to Life, which also is pushing legislation that aims to ban abortions based on race. Black women accounted for the majority of abortions in Georgia in 2006, even though blacks make up just a third of state population, according to the Centers for D...

She is way too funny! In her keynote speech to the Tea Party Convention, half-governor Palin spent the bulk of her time lambasting President Obama and the Democrats. She spoke of that "hopey-changey-thingy" and wonder how it was working out, she congratulated the new Senator of Massachusetts, Scott Brown, and defended the Tea Party Movement itself. When it came time for a little q and a, the governor often seemed to glance down at her opened hand. What was that about? She hand her top priorities written on her hand!! This is the same woman who blasted the President for using a teleprompter! How can you not remember you "core principles?" Can she get any phonier? Not one person on the Right thinks this might be a problem? Sarah Palin is a mess, and she would be a caricature of a caricature if she wasn't so serious and popular with a large portion of the Right. To have to write "you CORE prinicples" on your hand in order to not forget them is simply ...

Republican Sen. Susan Collins is in a long line of Republicans who have been blasting the White House for how it has dealt with the so-called "Underwear Bomber." What she and others forget is that many of the procedures the Obama Justice Department has in place came from the Bush era. They would rather the country be seen as less than honorable and torture the guy, than honorable and do things in the moral and legal manner. They keep making a big deal about his having been read his rights, that is U. S. law! Anyone captured or arrested in this country is read their rights and given a lawyer, even illegal immigrants. The family of the attempted bomber chose to cooperate with the government because they we assured he would not be tortured. As a result, he has been fore coming with information, real and actionable Intel. What more could they ask for? For him to be water  boarded? Of course! It is a mistake on the Republicans part to continue to try to take cheap shots at the A...

Child abuse drops dramatically in U.S. Study: Incidents declined by 26 percent from 1993 to 2006 The Associated Press updated 5:38 p.m. ET, Tues., Feb. 2, 2010 NEW YORK - A massive new federal study documents an unprecedented and dramatic decrease in incidents of serious child abuse, especially sexual abuse. Experts hailed the findings as proof that crackdowns and public awareness campaigns had made headway. An estimated 553,000 children suffered physical, sexual or emotional abuse in 2005-06, down 26 percent from the estimated 743,200 abuse victims in 1993, the study found. "It's the first time since we started collecting data about these things that we've seen substantial declines over a long period, and that's tremendously encouraging," said professor David Finkelhor of the University of New Hampshire, a leading researcher in the field of child abuse. "It does suggest that the mobilization around this issue is helping and it's a problem ...