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REACTION TO GEORGE TILLER SHOOTING
Media Calls Killer 'Pro-Life'
half a dozen headlines about the murder of abortionist George Tiller that use the word "pro-life" to describe his suspected murderer or his associations. "In regular news stories, they always use the term 'anti-abortion," said Brian Gibson, "Now they start calling the person who did this 'pro-life,' when he's not. They're rubbing our noses in the term."
http://www.ncregister.com/daily/medias_pro-life_bias_on_display/
Death's Hand on the Tiller by John Zmirak
We shouldn't be surprised to see that pro-choice commentators are moving already to turn last week's snuff farce into a morality play, whose take-away message is that the pro-life movement is to blame for Tiller's death. A powerful, mainstream Democratic Party Web site, TPMCafe.com, published on May 31 a column that blames the death of Tiller on the simple fact that pro-lifers accurately describe what happens in the course of an abortion.
More dangerous to the cause of life than rants like this are statements and actions by Christians asserting that pro-life speech is inherently deadly -- and so must in the end be regulated, as speech is ever more tightly controlled in Canada and Great Britain.
The reason it's wrong to kill abortionists is that it is an act of war, and one that does not meet the conditions for a Just War.
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6157&Itemid=48
If Bush or Cheney Had Been Assassinated Would Olbermann and MSNBC Be Responsible?
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/06/02/if-bush-or-cheney-had-been-assassinated-would-olbermann-msnbc-be-resp
Abortion Doctor on MSNBC Compares Pro-Lifers to Taliban
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2009/06/01/abortion-doctor-msnbc-compares-pro-lifers-taliban
Bonnie Erbe: Calling Abortion What It Is Makes You Extremist
In other words if you're pro-life but meek to the point of avoiding the abortion debate, Erbe doesn't consider you an extremist. But use accurately harsh language to describe the accurately harsh reality of what abortion is and you are an extremist who eggs on some to political terrorism.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2009/06/01/bonnie-erbe-calling-abortion-what-it-makes-you-extremist
AP: Tiller Murder Part of a 'String'; Abort Group's Own History Shreds Claim
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2009/06/01/ap-tiller-murder-part-string-abort-groups-own-history-destroys-claim
Crunching numbers and contemplating the culture of death
...since the last abortionist was slain some 170,000 people have been murdered in the United States
http://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2009/06/crunching-number-and-contemplating-the-culture-of-death.html
Back to the 90s: Media Decried Violence Outside Clinics, But Not Inside
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2009/06/01/back-90s-media-decried-violence-outside-clinics-not-inside
CNN's Chetry Lets Abortionist Smear Pro-Life Demonstrators
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2009/06/01/cnns-chetry-lets-abortionist-smear-pro-life-demonstrators
ABC's Take on Tiller Murder: 'The Abortion Debate Turns Deadly'
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2009/06/01/abcs-spin-tiller-murder-abortion-debate-turns-deadly
CBS 'Early Show' Sees No Controversy in Tiller's Work As 'Abortion Provider'
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2009/06/01/cbs-early-show-sees-no-controversy-tiller-s-work-abortion-provider
Liberal Blogs Quickly Link Doctor's Murder to Limbaugh, Hannity, and Beck
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/rusty-weiss/2009/05/31/liberal-blogs-quickly-link-doctor-s-murder-limbaugh-hannity-beck
Liberals Blame O'Reilly for Tiller Murder, Silent on Military Recruiter Shooting
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mitchell-blatt/2009/06/02/liberals-blame-oreilly-tiller-murder-silent-military-recruiter-shoot
How Long Will It Take Media To Tag Tiller Murderer As Not Part of Prolife Movement?
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2009/05/31/how-long-will-it-take-media-tag-tiller-murderer-not-part-prolife-movemen
Gravely Wicked by Robert P. George
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDM5NGYyYWMxZDY3NWFmYjhjZmJiNTI2YmRjZmRlYWE=
"Can the killing of abortionists be justified?"
Already, within the span of a few hours, a standard line by some abortion supporters/providers has become, "Those who call abortion murder are implicitly or indirectly responsible for Tiller's death." It's a nifty bit of rhetoric, but one that is inherently flawed. It rests on the very shaky premise that if you believe someone has committed murder, you will be inclined to kill them if you have a chance. But both logic and experience say otherwise. The vast majority of people—even those with intense emotions about the matter—seek justice through lawful means, even if those means are often frustrating and, in some cases, deeply flawed.
http://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2009/05/can-the-killing-of-abortionists-be-justified.html
Rhetoric from left-wing blogs/sites: There will be more of this—much more—in the days to come, I'm certain of it. And, sadly, Randall Terry is not helping matters at all. Not one bit.
http://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2009/05/suspect-arrested-in-tiller-slaying.html
Media: Tiller a Martyr, Abortion Not Killing and Pro-Lifers are Crazy
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/colleen-raezler/2009/06/02/media-tiller-martyr-abortion-not-killing-pro-lifers-are-crazy
CNN Highlights Prediction of a 'Huge Backlash' Against Pro-Lifers After Tiller
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2009/06/02/cnn-highlights-prediction-huge-backlash-against-pro-lifers-after-till
Bozell Column: A Pro-Life 'Jihad'?
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-bozell/2009/06/02/bozell-column-pro-life-jihad
Late Term Abortions Provided More Widely Than Media Reporting
http://www.priestsforlife.org/blog/?p=546
Is the Obama Administration More Concerned About Radical Anti-Abortionists Than Radical Islamists?
http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/06/02/morris_father_jonathan_tiller/
CNN's Chetry Lets Abortionist Smear Pro-Life Demonstrators
CNN anchor Kiran Chetry let an "abortion provider" from Alabama, whose center was bombed by captured fugitive Eric Rudolph, denigrate all pro-life activists who have ever protested in front of such centers as potential murderers
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2009/06/01/cnns-chetry-lets-abortionist-smear-pro-life-demonstrators
Number One Stupid and Irresponsible Comment On Dr. Tiller - Deal W. Hudson
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=127
LIFE ISSUES
Abortion 'absolutists' blocking bill to support pregnant women, pro-life Dem says
the bill's opponents think the bill "goes too far toward common ground." A "minority of Democrats on the pro-choice side" object to a provision requiring that abortion providers offer women the voluntary option of receiving pre-abortion counseling to learn of the risks associated with abortion
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=16165
Protecting the Careers of Medical Professionals Who Believe in the Hippocratic Oath by By Wesley J. Smith
http://www.cbc-network.org/research_display.php?id=395
More Evidence of Radical Scope of Assisted Suicide Death Agenda - Wesley J. Smith
http://www.firstthings.com/blog_entry.php?blog_id=6&year=2009&month=05&title_link=more-evidence-of-radical-scope-of-assisted-suicide-death-agenda-1243521001
A Blast From the Past: Good News About the case of Lauren Richardson, the pregnant woman who had a catastrophic brain injury. Wesley J. Smith
http://www.firstthings.com/blog_entry.php?blog_id=6&year=2009&month=05&title_link=a-blast-from-the-past-good-news-about-lauren-richardson-1243625797
Margaret Cottle and Assisted Suicide's Corruption of Palliative Care Wesley J. Smith
http://www.firstthings.com/blog_entry.php?blog_id=6&year=2009&month=05&title_link=margaret-cottle-and-assisted-suicides-corruption-of-palliative-care-1243612092
When the Right to Die Becomes a Duty By Colleen Carroll Campbell
http://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.3838/pub_detail.asp
American women enrolled at Catholic colleges and universities are more likely to have abortions than their counterparts at public schools
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3096
OBAMA
The Obama administration has moved to pull all federal funding from true abstinence education programs.
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/17082/BLI/commentary/index.htm
Liberal Fascism 2.0
With very, very, few exceptions, the Left decided that it was vital to destroy the book, unread and unexamined. I'd guess I've received a couple hundred e-mails from readers telling me how they thought the whole book was written with Obama in mind, even though I finished it before he was even ahead in the Democratic primaries. I think people fail to understand that tyrannies — including soft, Huxleyan tyrannies — aren't born from criminal conspiracies by evil men; they're born by progressive groupthink.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MzhhZjQ4OTJlNTNhMzI1ZmMyNGUxN2U3MDhiZmIwZjA=&w=Mg==
Guess Who Census Banned as 'Partners'
Agency seeks out ACORN, but 'blacklists' other groups. "Given its history of illegal activity and fraud, ACORN should be nowhere near the 2010 Census"
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=99452
All the President's Newsmen - Video - Should Washington bail out newpapers
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1154&Itemid=10
Obama: America "One of the Largest Muslim Countries in the World"
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/06/obama_america_one_of_the_large_1.asp
The Vatican response(s) to Obama's Cairo speech
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/features/index.cfm?recnum=60328
'Hush Rush' Fairness Doctrine Being Repackaged as 'Localism'
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2009/05/31/hush-rush-fairness-doctrine-being-repackaged-localism
SOTOMAYOR/DIAZ
Barack Obama has an uncanny ability to disarm critics, especially those itching for a fight, and it was on full display this past week. His choice of federal judge Sonia Sotomayor as a Supreme Court nominee, of course, got all the attention. But another key appointment of a Hispanic with top-notch credentials and a compelling personal story also showed just how good the President is at keeping his opponents off balance. In fact, in selecting Catholic scholar Miguel Diaz to be the new ambassador to the Holy See, Obama not only neutralized potential controversy, but also highlighted a potential weakness of the U.S. Catholic Church these days.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1902013,00.html
Is Fr. Thomas Reese, S.J., right or wrong... Sotomayor and Diaz
http://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2009/05/is-fr-thomas-reese-sj-right-or-wrong.html
Obama's Vatican Pick: Boosting Hispanic Catholics
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1902013,00.html
Apostolic nuncio: Obama nominee for Vatican ambassador 'an excellent choice'
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3062
Down From the Bronx By George Neumayr
Don't be fooled by the "moderate" jurisprudence Sotomayor has got, she's still Sonia, Sonia from the block. Or is she?
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/05/29/down-from-the-bronx
Answering Peggy Noonan: Why Sotomayor Should Withdraw By Jeffrey Lord
Do I feel I am an "idiot" as you say of those who believe Sotomayor should be vigorously opposed based on her racial sentiments? Sorry, Peggy, I just can't agree. I am absolutely agog at those who speak of moderation on this subject, who speak of tone. Tone? Tone?!!!! Judge Sotomayor's nomination should be withdrawn.
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/06/02/answering-peggy-noonan-why-sot/
A Hispanic woman judicial activist is just as bad as any other judicial activist. A conservative judicial activist is just as bad as a liberal judicial activist.
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/17075/LEGAL/scourt/index.htm
Sonia Souter Left
Few serious people will argue that Sonia Sotomayor has been nominated to the Supreme Court because she is the best candidate for the job. Sotomayor may well move the court to the left.
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/05/28/sonia-souter-left
Never Liberal Enough: Networks Also Doubted Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Pro-Abortion Credentials in '93
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/rich-noyes/2009/05/30/never-liberal-enough-networks-also-doubted-ruth-bader-ginsburg-s-pro-abo
Senate Determines Judges' Thinking By Sen. Orrin Hatch
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/23148.html
OBAMA AND CATHOLICS
How is it that so many Catholics continue to parrot the Obama abortion reduction line, when there is absolutely no truth to it?
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=More-Abortion-Reduction-from-President-Obama.html&Itemid=127
L'Osservatore Obama?
To many American Catholics in Rome, the newspaper's official line on Obama appears ill-informed. Father John Wauck, a professor of literature at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome and a former professional speechwriter for Republican and Democratic politicians, said he was "completely baffled by the colossal ignorance" in the newspaper, "ignorance of both American politics and the function of rhetoric."
http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/18317/
NOTRE DAME/OBAMA
Obama v. the Catholic Church
I strongly suspect that President Obama's speech at Notre Dame's commencement was an attempt to separate Catholics from the teachings of their church.
http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/46605257.html?cmpid=15585797
The Actual Constitution by Rev. James V. Schall, SJ
The president, I have decided, is a genius. He knew that by receiving Notre Dame's honors, he would solidify the wisdom of the 54 percent of Catholics who voted for the most anti-life candidate ever. He also understands that the best way to counteract the so-called Catholic influence on the present Supreme Court is to appoint yet another Catholic.
The president's greatest supporters are in Europe, not Kansas. The purpose of government now is to give everyone what he wants, provided what he wants is what the government wants him to have.
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6144&Itemid=48
Fr. Hesburgh Took Notre Dame Way Off Course
In 1961, Hesburgh accepted appointment to the board of directors of the Rockefeller Foundation, a prominent grantor to abortion-providing and population-control organizations. Hesburgh soon rose to become chairman of the foundation named after the Rockefeller family. ..he shocked even some of his most ardent defenders by permitting Notre Dame to host an annual convention of Planned Parenthood. He allowed our nation's most prolific abortion provider to use campus facilities several times. ...in a 1974 speech to a Catholic press association, he labeled opponents of abortion "mindless and crude zealots." ...in 1972, he immediately accepted membership in the world government-promoting Council on Foreign Relations chaired by Rockefeller. As a member of the advisory board of the group known as Planetary Citizens, Hesburgh subscribed to its Human Manifesto which seeks a "United Nations capable of governing our planet."
http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/1176
The Salvaging of Notre Dame By Joseph Lawler
Of the 80 percent of students who identify as Catholic, a majority care more about football than faith. Notre Dame is still far more authentically Catholic than other large universities. St. Louis University, for example, is no longer religious in any meaningful sense. Boston College and Georgetown, the next two most prestigious schools, struggle just to maintain the pretense of faith. ...the declining percentage of Catholic faculty spells doom for Notre Dame's Catholicism
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/06/03/the-salvaging-of-notre-dame/1
Jesuit: Obama is "the most effective spokesperson" for "the spirit of Vatican II"
http://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2009/06/jesuit-obama-is-the-most-effective-spokesperson-for-the-spirit-of-vatican-ii.html
Barack Obama and Vatican II
...when I heard Obama's two speeches I was struck by how much he spoke in accord with the spirit of Vatican II. In those two addresses, as well as in his other speeches, he called for civility, for the end of name-calling, and for a willingness to work together to deal with our common problems, including abortion, rather than a stand-off determination to impose one's principles without reckoning what the cost to the common good might be.
http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=11688
RELIGION
One Nation of Religious Illiterates
http://www.nypost.com/seven/05282009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/one_nation__of_religious_illiterates_171312.htm
Boys Town founder Fr. Flanagan warned Irish Church about abuse. 1946: Fr. Flanagan slammed Ireland's reform schools as 'a disgrace to the nation'
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Boys-Town-founder-Fr-Flanagan-warned-Irish-Church-about-abuse-46390952.html
Catholic Judges by David Warren
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6137&Itemid=48
Diocese of Rochester Partners With Anti-Family Judge and Notorious Abortionist to Develop Anti-Catholic Holocaust Series
http://www.pewsitter.com/view_news_id_19188.php
Burying Canadian Miners - Development and Peace
These groups, led by the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (CCODP), and who are backing Bill C-300, seem far more concerned with stopping profits than helping the poor. It also raises questions about why such groups would receive millions in funding from Ottawa, primarily from the Canadian International Development Agency. The CCODP — which also pursues a hard-line liberation theology/people-vs.-profits approach — has organized huge write-in campaigns to browbeat politicians, along with rallies on Parliament Hill.
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/05/27/peter-foster-burying-canadian-miners.aspx
Cooperating with the Creator: The Church and Birth Control by Mark P. Shea
In this Crisis Magazine classic, Mark P. Shea lays out the case against artificial contraception. It's stronger than you might think.
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6125&Itemid=48
The Hits Just Keep Coming
The Diocese of Bridgeport was notified by the Connecticut Office of State Ethics that it is under investigation for possible violations of the state's lobbying laws. This of course is nothing less than the vindictive retribution by an entity whose leadership has become as anti-religious a nest of vipers as our Lord ever encountered.
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/06/03/the-hits-just-keep-coming
The World's Largest Democracy Has Voted
The most important victors may be Christians and other religious minorities in India.
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/06/02/reputation-reversal
Canada's Tolerance Misplaced By Mahfooz Kanwar
I am a first-generation Canadian from Pakistan. I left Pakistan 45 years ago.
I do not agree with those Canadians who engage in their fight against the system in their original countries on Canadian soil. They should go back and fight from within.
I once supported multiculturalism in Canada because I believed it gave us a sense of pluralism and diversity. However, I have observed and experienced that official multiculturalism has encouraged convolution of the values that make Canada the kind of place people want to immigrate to in the first place.
Muslims are less than two per cent of the Canadian population, yet in 2004 and 2005, a fraction of them, the fundamentalists, wanted to bring sharia law to Canada. If they really want to live under sharia, they should go to the prison-like countries where sharia is practised.
http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/Canada+tolerance+misplaced/1442771/story.html
Is Islam a Religion of Peace?
http://www.ncregister.com/daily/is_islam_a_religion_of_peace/
Evil, In the Name of God by Deal W. Hudson
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6134&Itemid=48
RADICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM
Pelosi Spills Beans About Radical Environmentalism's Voracious Appetite for Power Wesley J. Smith
http://www.firstthings.com/blog_entry.php?blog_id=6&year=2009&month=05&title_link=pelosi-spills-beans-about-radical-environmentalisms-voracious-appetite-for-power-1243532187
Surprising support from the green left on population control
http://spuc-director.blogspot.com/2009/06/surprising-support-from-green-left-on.html
NASA Study Acknowledges Solar Cycle, Not Man, Responsible for Past Warming
http://www.dailytech.com/NASA+Study+Acknowledges+Solar+Cycle+Not+Man+Responsible+for+Past+Warming/article15310.htm
Editorial: Cooling Down With Global-Warming Data
U.S. and world temperature records are compromised by monitoring station errors. If fighting global warming may cost the economy $9.6 trillion and more than 1 million lost jobs by 2035, as the Heritage Foundation forecasts, it'd be a good idea to be sure there's a sound basis before making such a massive sacrifice.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/temperature-stations-global-2433763-heat-watts
MISCELLANEOUS
Cheney on gay marriage: 'Freedom for everyone'
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090602/D98IHB300.html
Gay marriage mob harasses petition-signers in Washington state By Michelle Malkin
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/06/02/gay-marriage-mob-harasses-petition-signers-in-washington-state/
U.S. Inflation to Approach Zimbabwe Level, Faber Says
"I am 100 percent sure that the U.S. will go into hyperinflation"
http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aIeLg1djbBps&refer=home
Ten Thoughts on the Causes of the Bubble and Bust
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/05/29/ten-thoughts-on-the-causes-of
Dumbest Generation Getting Dumber
The teaching establishment and politicians have hoodwinked taxpayers into believing that more money is needed to improve education. Any long-term solution to our education problems requires the decentralization that can come from competition.
http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2009/06/03/dumbest_generation_getting_dumber
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