Dooming Minority Girls

Do they want the political issue or to help young people? Sadly, I think their mind is made up. Rebecca Hagelin has more:

Last week the American Medical Association (AMA) published a report that shows abstinence education works. Tragically, President Obama and Nancy Pelosi had already pandered to dishonest groups like Planned Parenthood, who profit from teen sexual activity, and took the unbelievable action of terminating government funding of these successful abstinence programs.

The results are clear: When adults take the time to tell children what is right and what is wrong, and teach them how to avoid sex, the majority of them actually do. But when a young person is constantly bombarded with sexual images, taught by those in authority that he can freely engage in sex if he wants to, and is presumed to be unable to control himself, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that he will most likely become sexually active.

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How Math Has Changed

Adrienne's Catholic Corner is one of the most fun Catholic sites around. Hope you enjoy it as well. Here, Adrienne's got lots to say about Math. It's funny:

Years of Math 1959 - 2009 (in the USA )

Last week I purchased a burger at Burger King for $1.58. The counter girl took my $ 2 and I was digging for my change when I pulled 8 cents from my pocket and gave it to her. She stood there, holding the nickel and 3 pennies, while looking at the screen on her register. I sensed her discomfort and tried to tell her to just give me two quarters , but she hailed the manager for help. While he tried to explain the transaction to her, she stood there and cried. Why do I tell you this? Because of the evolution in teaching math since the 1950s:

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Comedy: What Gibbs Hand Really Said

I love the blogosphere for exactly this kind of excellent analysis. Check out Ace for what was really written on Robert Gibbs hand.
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Classless White House Mocks Palin

Hot Air has video of White House Press Secretary mocking Palin by writing notes for the presser on his hand. Ha! Ha! Ha! These guys are hilarious.

Imagine: He thought this joke was so good, he actually prepared it before the presser. MKH is calling him the Dane Cook of politics for ripping off a goof that’s already been done three times by national figures, including Palin herself, but it’s worse than that. The Daily Show did a double hit on it last night, first with Stewart reading off his hand and then Wyatt Cenac reading off his belly, so that’s five times at least. Which makes Gibbs — what? The Carlos Mencia of politics, maybe?

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Steele: You Don't Like Me? You're Racist!

Michael Steele has got to go. Dude!!!! You're there to try to make the GOP look good, not just Michael Steele. What's wrong with this guy? I know just by asking this I'm in danger of being called a racist but I'm brave like that. Plumline has the quote in full:

It’s been awhile since Michael Steele has landed himself in the news, but this might stir things up again: In a new interview, Steele bluntly suggests criticism of his tenure — and all the media coverage it’s garnered — may be motivated by racism.

The story, called “Up in the Air,” is in the February issue of Washingtonian magazine, and it isn’t online yet, but here’s the key passage, buried way at the end of the piece, on page 96 of the mag:

Steele acknowledges that at times he has a tendency to take things too far. “And I get checked on that, just as when I was a young boy and I pushed the envelope too far and my Mama was there to check me.”

But there’s an edge to his voice when he talks about a double standard that he believes has been applied by his critics, and he posits racism as the cause: “I don’t see stories about the internal operations of the DNC that I see about this operation. Why? Is it because Michael Steele is the chairman, or is it because a black man is chairman?”

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I'm Not Watching Oprah...

I'm not watching Oprah. No way. But I would understand it if some of you wanted to today. The Anchoress has some thoughts on Oprah's show for today.

The Dominican Sisters of Mary will be featured on Oprah Winfrey’s show tomorrow, and the gals were kind enough to send along an exclusive picture from the crew’s visit to their Ann Arbor Motherhouse. They have more pictures here.

A peek at her teaser for the Tuesday show (H/T the Deac) indicates that the Sisters will share the hour with a look at the “the word’s only Western Geisha.” One serves God and thereby all of humanity, one serves a single man and makes him feel like a god. I don’t think that Ms. Winfrey meant to make it sound like a carnival barker selling a “freak” show.

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Priest to Wounded Soldiers

An inspiring story about a priest who went from being a corporate lawyer to a priest administering to wounded soldiers:

To watch Capuchin Father James Stump at work is to see a Christ-centered “ministry of presence” in action as a matter of daily routine.

A chaplain at the Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Palo Alto, Father Stump makes his rounds with one purpose in mind: to invite sick and wounded veterans to encounter the living Christ.

Father Stump is quick in his step and quick with a joke as he goes about his work.

Watch the speed limit, he jokes to a wheelchair-bound Marine on the move in the hallway. They chat about the Marine’s spinal reconstruction surgery. But in a moment, without a break in the informality, the priest is praying over the patient and asking that Jesus “show his face to you, have mercy on you.”

And as the two part, the priest, simply says: “Heal up.”

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This One Hits Close to Home

As a father of four daughters, the oldest one being ten years old this one seems particularly insane to me. Right Wing News has the very disturbing story:

One indication that moonbattery is not just misguided but evil is that progressives have an obsession with corrupting children. This is why, under our Hopey Changey regime of pure moonbattery, our federal "Safe Schools Czar" is a militant pervert associated with NAMBLA. It's also the reason for this:

A new report by the International Planned Parenthood Federation is advocating that children as young as 10 be given extensive sex education, including an awareness of sex's pleasures.

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Amy Marks the Year

Amy Welborn's latest is very moving:

Wednesday morning, an electrician came to the new house.

(We still aren’t there – the movers come tomorrow morning.)

A problem or two had emerged, involving sparks emitting from a ceiling fan and a subsequent power failure on one side of the house. He fixed it, and we talked about him returning to install a fixture here and there.

It was the first anniversary of Michael’s death, but what was I going to do? Sit around? No need to do that in order to contemplate – every hour was marked anyway and wouldn’t be denied in my head, even as I argued with myself about the arbitrary nature of “year.” Why does “a year” mean anything more or less than 364 days or 366?

I don’t know. But it does – or I let it.

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DHS Investigating Pro-Lifers?

DHS collected info on Wisconsin pro-lifers and then destroyed the evidence. Hmmm. Are things getting a little creepy around here?

Opposed to the wholesale slaughter of the unborn? The Obama administration would like a word with you....

Madison, Wis. (AP) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security conducted a threat assessment of local pro- and anti-abortion rights activists before an expected rally last year, even though they did not pose a threat to national security.

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Captain America Vs.. The Tea Party

Ack!

Marvel Comic's Captain America is the mightiest soldier with the super powerful secret soldier formula that makes him a super man. Sadly, this muscle bound hero that took on the whole Nazi army during WWII seems to be afraid of those American people who've joined the Tea Party movement. Not only is Cappy quaking in his little red booties, but he's sure that the Tea Party folks are dangerous racists, too.

Isn't it wonderful that a decades old American comic book hero is now being used to turn readers against our very political system, being used to slander folks that are standing up for real American principles in real life -- and one called "Captain America" at that?

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A Dummies Guide to Death

Fr. Ray Blake has some thoughts on what a good death is:

The debate about assisted suicide, the whole issue of communicating with people who are "shut in" reminds us that though most people have little fear of death, we all have a fear of the process of dying.

For a celibate priest there is little chance of me dying in my own bed, it is either a quick heart attack or following my mother, a rather hideous long drawn out death of alzheimers and hospital infections in a broken leg which remained unhealed for three years, or like my father, whose first anniversary is at this time , who died in hospice.

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A Touching Television Show

I hadn't heard of the Duggars until a complete stranger asked me if I was trying to be the Duggars when she saw me with my five children. I didn't know who they were so when I got home I googled them. Maurisa over at Half a Dozen Productions watches the show and found one scene to be touching and inspiring. By her description I'd have to agree.

Did you see the season premiere of 19 Kids and Counting? I'm not a regular viewer, but occasionally I have followed the story of this growing family over the years. The Duggars are a lovely, devoted, and faith-filled family and while others may find their very large family an oddity, I think they are inspirational.

Due to complications during her latest pregnancy, Michelle delivered their youngest daughter 15 weeks early via c-section in December. Little Josie Duggar weighed just over 1 pound and faces an up hill battle, but so far so good. The longer this little girl hangs in there the better her chances of survival.

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Palin Has Some Fun With Crazy Leftists

Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit has to be the hardest working blogger in the world wide interweb thingie. The guy must not sleep. At all. But I woke up this morning and saw this I had to link to it. This is really funny and shows why Sarah Palin is unlike any other politician out there.

RIGHT ON— On Sunday the left went bonkers after they discovered that the TelePrompter-less former Governor Sarah Palin wrote notes on the palm of her left hand for her speech to the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville. The far left absolutely freaked over this non-issue rather than focus on her brilliant speech knocking the Obama Administration’s horrid record on economics and national defense.

Today Sarah fired back…

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Abortion President Strikes Again

Sickening.

From the blogprof, who queries:

What business does the Pentagon have stocking the morning-after pill?

Obvious answer: no one should be punished with a baby.

The Washington Post reports:

The Department of Defense will begin making the morning-after pill Plan B available at all of its hospitals and health clinics around the world, officials announced Thursday.

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Ruins of Embryonic Stem Cell Research

This is a great article at Headline Bistro:

“If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk, get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.”

So said then-Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards in October 2004 at a campaign in Newton, Iowa in a cynical appeal to people’s desperation for cures from everything from spinal cord injury to juvenile diabetes to Alzheimer’s disease, as he held out embryonic stem cells (ESCs) as the key to their hopes and dreams. It was cruel, and it was predicated on what all in the scientific community knew to be a long shot at best. Edwards struck many as sounding more like a chimeric faith healer or snake oil salesman hawking his wares.

For the people of California, such hype aided them that year on a fiscally ruinous path, as they passed Proposition 71 (California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative), which established the Institute for Regenerative Medicine and endowed it with a mind-boggling $3 billion in research funds mainly for ESC research.

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Who Needs Lincoln or Washington?

I knew things in many public schools was bad. But this is just insane. Cranky Con has good reason to be cranky about this one:

Reason # Infinity not to send kids to public schools. Because of brainless decisions like this one in North Carolina:

He may be the president who governed during the Civil War, freeing the slaves, but under a new curriculum proposal for North Carolina high schools, U.S. history would begin years after President Lincoln, with the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877.

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90 Minutes With Clarence Thomas

The Anchoress has a great intro to an extended interview with Clarence Thomas.

Whenever I watch or read Justice Thomas, I always come away liking him even more. He is authentic, down-to-earth and credible and human. I almost never watch longer online videos because I have such a deplorable attention span, but this Q&A between him and a bunch of law students was worth watching, all 90 minutes of it.

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Is This Pro-Life Ad too Graphic?

This is a well made and shocking ad. But CMR fave Danielle Bean wonders if it may be too graphic. Join the conversation over at the National Catholic Register:

LifeSite News reports that an anti-abortion ad produced by Priests for Life has been rejected by a Canadian television station. (The video is embedded at the bottom of this post.)

When I read that a pro-life message had been rejected for being “too graphic” I was sure this was some unfair liberal media bias being played out in the name of sensitivity. I rolled my eyes and clicked play.

But then I found the ad deeply disturbing.

It is graphic. But is it too graphic?

I don’t know.

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Super Bowl Champions for Life

Wow. This is pretty amazing. I didn't even know this existed. Thanks to Kathleen Mckinley at Newsbusters for digging this one up:

There has been a lot of controversy over the Super Bowl ad featuring Tim Tebow and his mother discussing how she chose life for her son.

The ad is a simple sincere look at a personal story. Yet the left and the "feminists" have gone nuts over it.

23 years ago, The American Life League, one of the largest Catholic Pro-Life organizations, produced a short featuring members of the Super Bowl winning New York Giants.

As you watch former superstars Phil Simms -- the game's MVP and current sportscaster for CBS! -- Mark Bavaro, Jim Burt, Chris Godfrey, George Martin, and Phil McConkey speak out against abortion, try to imagine what the reaction would be to this film if it was made today.

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