Sunday, January 31, 2010
A Race—And Candidate—To Watch
by David R. Stokes
"And like his grandfather, who was swept into office as part of a Republican landslide in the 1946 off-year elections in the aftermath of World War II and too many years of “New” and “Fair” Democratic deals, he hopes to ride the current wave of discontent and frustration all the way to Capitol Hill. In doing so, he could make a little bit of history, as well. Cox graduated from Princeton and New York University Law School, and served as a John McCain delegate and was the New York State Executive Director of McCain's 2008 Presidential run."
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"And like his grandfather, who was swept into office as part of a Republican landslide in the 1946 off-year elections in the aftermath of World War II and too many years of “New” and “Fair” Democratic deals, he hopes to ride the current wave of discontent and frustration all the way to Capitol Hill. In doing so, he could make a little bit of history, as well. Cox graduated from Princeton and New York University Law School, and served as a John McCain delegate and was the New York State Executive Director of McCain's 2008 Presidential run."
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"U.S. Marines from India Company,...
Talking the talk
By Mark Steyn
"The world turns. In Indonesia, the principal of a Muslim boarding school in Tangerang who is accused of impregnating a 15-year-old student says the DNA test will prove that a malevolent genie is the real father.
In New Zealand, a German tourist, Hans Kurt Kubus, has been jailed for attempting to board a plane at Christchurch with 44 live lizards in his underpants.
In Britain, a research team at King's College, London, has declared that the female "G-spot" doesn't exist.
In France, a group of top gynecologists dismissed the findings, asking, "What do you expect if you ask Englishmen to find a woman's erogenous zone?"
But in America, Barack Obama is talking."
"The world turns. In Indonesia, the principal of a Muslim boarding school in Tangerang who is accused of impregnating a 15-year-old student says the DNA test will prove that a malevolent genie is the real father.
In New Zealand, a German tourist, Hans Kurt Kubus, has been jailed for attempting to board a plane at Christchurch with 44 live lizards in his underpants.
In Britain, a research team at King's College, London, has declared that the female "G-spot" doesn't exist.
In France, a group of top gynecologists dismissed the findings, asking, "What do you expect if you ask Englishmen to find a woman's erogenous zone?"
But in America, Barack Obama is talking."
The Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad...
"Names and labels do matter. The pro-life community rejected the other side's claim to the pro-choice label years ago, recognizing that re-casting the moral issue underlying abortion as simply a woman's right to choose is sophistry. Pro-lifers, of course, also reject the anti-abortion label assigned to them by others.
As Princeton University Jurisprudence professor Robert George points out in this piece at Public Discourse, if we were to shift the topic from abortion to slavery, would our ancestors who advocated slavery have been labeled pro-choice on the matter of owning slaves? When our forebears promoted slavery as an acceptable (or distasteful-but-tolerable) social institution necessary to the well-being of the nation, with the proviso that if you think slavery is wrong then don't own any, would we have called them pro-choice? We would, as George says, most certainly have called such people simply pro-slavery, just as we label as pro-abortion those who euphemistically call themselves pro-choice."
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As Princeton University Jurisprudence professor Robert George points out in this piece at Public Discourse, if we were to shift the topic from abortion to slavery, would our ancestors who advocated slavery have been labeled pro-choice on the matter of owning slaves? When our forebears promoted slavery as an acceptable (or distasteful-but-tolerable) social institution necessary to the well-being of the nation, with the proviso that if you think slavery is wrong then don't own any, would we have called them pro-choice? We would, as George says, most certainly have called such people simply pro-slavery, just as we label as pro-abortion those who euphemistically call themselves pro-choice."
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