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  This video is completely untrue and has been debunked by the nonpartisan factcheck site factcheck.org:

  http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_alive_baloney.html

  http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/obama_and_infanticide.html

  These videos are outright lies and is sad that these people would stoop so low. Besides, it is time for a different view on abortion:

  Legislation is not the answer. I am against abortion, but for 35 years the Republicans have used this issue to get elected, not done anything major about it when they had plenty of opportunity (they have named 7 of the 9 Supreme Court Justices and only needed 5 to overturn Roe) then saddle us with enormous tax breaks for the rich - huge give-aways to their friends at oil companies, Pharm companies and others. Not to mention start unnecessary wars and create dangerous economic policies. Worldwide it is easy to see that legislation does not work:

  * Countries with the highest abortion rates like Angola, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, Liberia, Egypt and Guatemala also have illegal abortion, meaning more babies die in countries where abortion is illegal.

   

  * The Netherlands has the lowest abortion rate in the world even though contraception and abortion there are legal and free.

  * Countries with the lowest abortion rates; Sweden, Iceland, Singapore, Finland, Japan, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and Canada all have legal abortion.

  The reason that legislation has not worked in other countries worldwide: it is near impossible to enforce.

  The reason why abortions are lower in countries where it is legal: All those countries have free education, easy adoption programs, free health care, programs to help women, crisis centers, etc.

  So the solution to this immoral act is not legislation - it is helping "the least of these" so that they never have to be in that position in the first place.

  Posted 9/30/2008 respond (flag)

**DEVASTATING!!** Abortion Survivor Gianna Jessen Blasts Obama For Voting Against Protecting Newborn Survivors of Abortion In New Ad
Gateway Pundit — This is just devastating... Abortion Survivor Gianna Jessen joined Born Alive Truth in a new ad that attacks Obama for voting against rights for newborn survivors of abortion: Here's the powerful ad from BornAliveTruth.org: Can you imagine not giving babies their basic human rights, no matter how they entered our world? My name is Gianna Jessen, born 31 years ago after a failed abortion. I’m a survivor, as are many others... but if Barack Obama had his way, ...

Gianna's Plea to Barack Obama
RedState: Conservative News and Community — This is, hands down, the most powerful and moving issue ad I've seen in quite some time: God Bless you, Gianna, for your beautiful witness to a culture of life. ...

Obama: Abortion-Survivor's Attack Ad Could Backfire
ScrappleFace — (2008-09-15) — A new TV ad in which the survivor of a botched abortion calls attention to Sen. Barack Obama’s repeated opposition to protecting such babies could backfire on the pro-life group that created the commercial, according to the Democrat presidential candidate. In the TV spot, Gianna Jessen, 31, calls on Sen. Obama to support born-alive infant protections because she claims that babies should have basic human rights “no matter how they entered our world.” ...

Powerful: Abortion Survivor Addresses Obama In Web-Ad
Nice Deb — First, here’s Gianna Jessen’s story: On April 6, 1977, Gianna’s 17 year old birthmother (named Tina) sought a saline abortion at seven months pregnant. Saline abortions involve injecting a caustic saline solution into the amniotic fluid, which (normally) causes the fetus to be scalded to death and then ...

Gianna’s Story: Hussein’s “Born Alive Abortion” Votes Exposed And Talking - With Ad Video
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — Above his pay-grade … by Ted Harvey - (Gianna’s Story) I want to share with you an awesome experience I had in May of 2006 while serving as the Assistant Minority Leader in the Colorado House of Representatives. It is a humbling experience to look back and realize that God used me to play a role in His divine orchestration. I was leaving the House chambers for the weekend when our Democrat Speaker of the House announced that the coming Monday would be the final day of this year’s General Assembly. He went on to state that there were still numerous ...

Watch this...
Babalú Blog: an island on the net without a bearded dictator — Watch this... And then read this . Change you can believe in? More like change I can do without. Gianna's home page is here . I dare you to listen to her beautiful voice and say that her mom had a right to choose her death. Posted by Henry Louis Gomez at September 16, 2008 12:11 AM Comments Post a comment

Abortion Survivor Gianna Jenson's Plea to Barack Obama: 'Please Support Born Alive Infant Protections' (Video)
Hyscience — Powerful: In this powerful ad sponsored by BornAliveTruth.org, abortion survivor Gianna Jesson questions Barack Obama for his active opposition as state senator to IL's Born Alive Infants Protection Act. Born Alive was introduced to stop IL hospitals from leaving babies who survived their abortions in soiled utility rooms to die. Gianna was aborted 31 years ago by a saline abortion procedure. Gianna testified for the federal Born Alive Infants Protection Act in 2001 and attended the presidential bill signing in 2002. Born ...

Uh, Senator . . .
Little Miss Attila — Uh, Senator . . . This doesn't make you look good, you know.

CHAOS!!
The Page by Mark Halperin — NY Times on outside groups swiftly stepping up with more TV ads and on the inability of the campaigns to control the daily message. Plus: Watch one of the ads mentioned in the piece here. ...

BornAliveTruth.org Takes Shot at Obama
PoliPundit.com — BornAliveTruth.org Takes Shot at Obama BornAliveTruth.org Ad: Latest Video “If Barack Obama had his way I would not be here.” Effective ad, should play well in Ohio and New Mexico where it’ll be running. Beyond the political ad though I heard Gianna Jessen being interviewed yesterday, her 31 year story was very moving. Oh man, I can hear the screams of outrage from team Obama already. -- KnightHawk Posted at 7:09 am Link to this post | Comments (3)

Anti-Abortion 527 Launches Anti-Obama TV Ad
Political Punch — Goldberg: How is Biden a Good 'Governing' Pick By Obama's Own Standards? | Main Anti-Abortion 527 Launches Anti-Obama TV Ad September 16, 2008 7:10 AM A new 527 has emerged. Called BornAliveTruth.org, the political organization says its mission "is to educate the public on the IL Born Alive Infants Protection Act and Senator Obama's record opposing this act."In this TV ad, which is said to be airing in battleground states New Mexico and Ohio, a woman named Gianna Jessen says she survived an failed abortion, and criticizes Obama for voting against legislation that would have declared that if a baby survives an abortion its life must be ...

Video: Born-alive survivor scolds Obama on vote protecting infanticide
Hot Air » Top Picks — Video: Born-alive survivor scolds Obama on vote protecting infanticide posted at 7:14 am on September 16, 2008 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | printer-friendly A new pro-life group comes out swinging today, and it chose a powerful spokeswoman for their cause. Gianna Jesson survived a saline abortion 31 years ago, and has fought to stop the barbaric practice of leaving such living infants to die by abortionists unwilling to face the failure of their procedure. Jesson testified in 2001-2 to get Congress to pass the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, and now she joins Born Alive Truth to point the finger at the only current ...

Gianna Speaks Truth
Conservative Belle — I saw an interview on Hannity & Colmes last night with this brave young lady, Gianna Jesson. If you don't know Gianna's story, she is an abortion survivor and a survivor of the foster care system. She explained the details of what happened to her and how a nurse saved her life, after the abortionist left. Her story is nothing short of a miracle. And ...

Abortion Survivor Gianna Jessen Blasts Obama:video
USS Neverdock — Tuesday, September 16, 2008 Abortion Survivor Gianna Jessen Blasts Obama:video This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours?

Senator Barack Obama On Abortion
Flopping Aces — ht Hot ...

Infanticide-Attempt Survivor Speaks Out Against Obama
Confederate Yankee — Infanticide-Attempt Survivor Speaks Out Against Obama Hope is the reason Gianna Jesson won't be voting for Barack Obama.

BornAliveTruth.org vs. Obama
Ben Smith's Blog — A new anti-abortion, anti-Obama ad revisits the Born Alive Infant Protection Act. The Illinois press, and Eric Zorn in particular, have the clearest summaries of this complicated topic, which make fairly clear that Obama's vote was cast against what was seen locally as a stealth attempt at a broader ban on abortion. (via Tapper)

Stirring anti-abortion voters
Jonathan Martin's Blog — A new 527 aimed at attacking Barack Obama for abortion-related votes he cast as a state senator is up today with an ad in Ohio and New Mexico featuring a self-proclaimed abortion-survivor.  As a state senator, Obama opposed legislation that proponents said would protect legal protection to babies outside the womb.  Ohio and New Mexico, in addition to being two of the most hotly-contested swing states, also feature thousands of anti-abortion Catholic voters.

Interview: True Lives
Articles on National Review Online — B arack Obama, meet your nightmare? On Monday night, BornAliveTruth.org, a new 527 released an ad starring Gianna Jensen, a 31-year-old woman who survived a saline abortion. I m a survivor, as are many others . . . but if Barack Obama had his way, I wouldn t be here, Jensen says in the ad. Four times, Barack Obama voted to oppose a law to protect babies left to die after a failed abortion. Senator Obama, please support born alive infant protections. I m living proof these babies have a right to live. [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] The ad is meant to highlight Obama s opposition to the Born Alive Infants Protection Act while he ...

Gianna Jessen: Abortion Survivor, Born Alive Opposes Obama & The Party of Death
Reasoned Audacity — Gianna Jessen, abortion survivor Charmaine and Your Business Blogger(R) have run a number of marathons. Charmaine always cries the last 4 miles. It always hurts -- both the physical and mental. Real Pain. But at least Charmaine's mom didn't try to murder her... Gianna Jessen is an abortion survivor and also runs marathons. It takes her 8 hours. (If we were on the same course, she would be the only one behind me and Charmaine.) Watch Gianna's 30 second video on protecting ...

New Batch Of Ads Suggests Outside Groups Are Gearing UP
TPM Election Central — A new spate of ads suggests that outside groups are finally getting serious about gearing up to assist the Obama and McCain campaigns in a vital task: Attacking the opponent. Here's an ad from Born Alive Truth, pushing the smear that Obama is pro-infanticide when it comes to babies born in botched abortions: The ad features a woman born from a failed abortion over 30 years ago: "But if Barack Obama had his way, I wouldn't be here." And here's a MoveOn ad going after John McCain, revealing who he really means when he talks about "my friends" -- ...

An Abortion Survivor Takes on the Obamessiah
Moonbattery — In light of his aggressive opposition to allowing babies who survive botched abortions to live, Obama is unlikely to win over the small but highly motivated constituency of abortion survivors: BHO had better hope people don't realize that in a sense, everyone born after Roe v. Wade ...

Born Alive Ad
The Corner on National Review Online — Tuesday, September 16, 2008 [image] Born Alive Ad [ Yuval Levin ] A 527 group called BornAliveTruth.org has just launched a TV ad on Obama s opposition to the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act in Illinois. They say it s airing in several battleground states, though it s not clear where or how often. It s a powerful ad, on an issue that Obama has tried his best to flee largely by denying the facts. 09/16 09:43 AM

Pro-Life 527 Cuts Ad about Obama's Born-Alive Votes
Weekly Standard Blog — Watch it: The spot was produced by the 527 BornAliveTruth.org, which will spend $350,000 airing the ad next week in Ohio and New Mexico. The narrator of the commercial, Gianna Jessen, a woman who survived an abortion 31 years ago, was on Hannity & Colmes last night:

Outside Groups Airing Ads
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com — Here are two outside groups now airing ads against Obama and McCain. BornAliveTruth.org is airing a TV ad in New Mexico and Ohio hitting Obama for previous votes on abortion. MoveOn.org is spending... ...

Born Alive Ad
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BornAliveTruth.org
Sound Politics — BornAliveTruth.org In my previous post, last night, I mentioned the fact that Obama voted to keep infanticide legal. This morning I see that Politico writes about a new 527 group called BornAliveTruth.org . Here's their first ad , playing in Ohio and New Mexico. Personally, I don't find the ad to be too powerful. I think most viewers will link it too closely to children who survived abortions but were not immediately born, and will disregard it because of that. I think it plays into the hands of Obama who wants to make this about abortion, instead of live births. And I find the claim that "if Barack Obama had his way, I ...

Abortion Survivor on Obama’s Vote
The Anchoress — The way I understand it, the Infants Born Alive Bill was introduced to the IL Senate and Obama voted against it because he wanted it to have the same language as the Federal Born Alive Bill. When the bill was re-presented containing that clause, Obama voted against it again. So, given the chance, twice, to vote against infanticide, Obama voted for. He also lied about all of this ...

Obama And Abortion
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — The Born Alive Infant Protect Act rears its head again. Here is factcheck.org on Obama's votes. But the decision to put abortion at the front and center of the campaign makes my questions about Palin's decision to put her own child's life at risk of miscarriage from an amniocentesis all the more relevant, no? ...

Powerful: Abortion Survivor Raps Obama on the Little Skeletons in His Utility Closet
Ace of Spades HQ — Powerful: Abortion Survivor Raps Obama on the Little Skeletons in His Utility Closet

Getting Culture War Ads Right
Ross Douthat — A few days ago, Jim Geraghty complained that my critique of McCain's sex-ed ad relied more on how the ad "feels" than on what the ad actually said. Today, Byron York marshals an extended defense of the ad's accuracy. And Rich Lowry writes that McCain's ads "are no worse than Obama's spots ...Obama just ran an ad saying McCain would cut education funding -- with no evidence. His response to McCain's supposed out-of-control negativity is a new negative ad misleadingly creating the impression that McCain aides are currently lobbying for special interests." Here's the thing, though: The reason that the sex-ed ad touched ...

Wow
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE — I heard Gianna Jesson speak many many years ago. I always wondered if her incredible story would ever make it past Churches and pro-life groups. Well, it finally has. And just in time to show Obama how wrong he has been on the issue of life.

Abortion survivor Gianna Jessen schools Obama on abortion
Stop The ACLU — 31 years ago, Gianna Jessen survived a saline abortion. She survived. Other infants are not so lucky. Had she been born in Barack Obama’s America , would that still be the case? She doesn’t think so. Shockingly (or perhaps not-so-shockingly), feminist blogs have been silent on this particular issue. How do they respond to someone like Gianna Jessen? It’s an indefensible position. And if you’d be willing to side with this bill just for the sake of protecting Roe v. Wade, it says a lot about what kind of person you are. Abortion is a sticky subject, but once the child is out of the womb and alive, there is no longer any argument. Period. Alan ...

Abortion survivor Gianna Jessen schools Barack Obama
Wizbang — 31 years ago, Gianna Jessen survived a saline abortion. She survived. Other infants are not so lucky. Had she been born in Barack Obama's America , would that still be the case? She doesn't think so. Shockingly (or perhaps not-so-shockingly), feminist blogs have been silent on this particular issue. How do they respond to someone like Gianna Jessen? It's an indefensible position. And if you'd be willing to side with this bill just for the sake of protecting Roe v. Wade, it says a lot about what kind of person you are. Abortion is a sticky subject, but once the child is out of the womb and alive, there is no longer any argument. Period. Alan ...

The Ad that Killed "The One"
small dead animals — The Ad that Killed "The One" ... for those undecided voters looking for an excuse to slink into the voting booth, hold their nose, and mark a vote for McCain/Palin ... ... this ad will likely do it: ht Posted by Cjunk at September 16, 2008 10:34 PM

Who’s afraid of Gianna Jessen? Answer: Barack Obama
Michelle Malkin — Read this post »

Obama hits McCain on abortion in new spot
Jonathan Martin's Blog — Obama's camp goes up in Ohio with a response to the third-party spot tagging him on abortion.  Notably, Obama hits back not just with his usual counter of portraying McCain as uber-negative but he also frames the Republican as an abortion extremist.  "He's running on a platform to ban abortion, even in cases of rape and incest," says the announcer of McCain.  Technically, this is true.   The Republican platform does call for banning abortion with no exceptions for rape and incest.  McCain, however, supports keeping the two exceptions. More important, ...

Some children are born unwanted. Others aren't.
Classical Values — Some children are born unwanted. Others aren't. An anti-abortion group has sponsored this anti-Obama ad, in which Gianna Jesson (a woman who survived an abortion) points out that "If Barack Obama had his way, I wouldn't be here." It's hard hitting, and intended to highlight the fact that Barack Obama's position on abortion is to the left of Hillary Clinton and Barbara Boxer. While I think abortion is immoral, I oppose criminalizing early term abortion primarily for two reasons: 1. I am philosophically uncomfortable with the idea of imprisoning women who are so miserable with the idea of having a child that they decide to terminate their ...

Rangel: “Sarah Palin is disabled”
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THE TIDE SERVES UP BAR-B-Q
Southern Appeal — [image] Alabama CRUSHED, and by that I mean unequivocally DESTROYED, Arkansas 49-14. All hail the power of BAMA!!!!!

Two year anniversary of winning my tenure appeal
Southern Appeal — Today, September 22, 2008, is the two year anniversary of winning my tenure appeal at Baylor University. In my forthcoming book, Return to Rome: Confessions of An Evangelical Catholic , I briefly touch on my tenure case and how I look at it in hindsight. Here is a brief excerpt from that portion of the book:  On September 22, 2006, Baylor University reversed its decision and awarded me tenure. And only 16 months after winning my appeal (in April 2008), I was promoted to full professor. In the academic world, such a story is as unlikely as they come. For this reason, I am in awe of, and humbled by, the gentle and unpredictable hand of ...

“It would be better for them simply to keep their mouths shut”
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Obama Ad Goes To War With Abortion Survivor - With Video
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — Obama ad goes to war with abortion survivor Video slams woman for ‘despicable lie’ Related: Gianna’s Story: Hussein’s “Born Alive Abortion” Votes Exposed And Talking - With Ad Video World Net Daily September 20, 2008 In the increasing flurry of this election season’s negative political ads, the Barack Obama campaign produced a TV commercial that not only attacks Republican rival John McCain, but also takes aim at an unusual target: a 31-year-old woman who was born alive after her mother’s botched abortion. Obama’s commercial predictably takes shots at ...

New NRA ads on GunBanObama.com
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Stanley Kurtz’s new article in WSJ on Obama-Ayers connection
Southern Appeal — This was published this morning . Here’s how it begins: Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never written about his most important executive experience. From 1995 to 1999, he led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001. The group poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists. The CAC was the brainchild of Bill Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground in the 1960s. Among other feats, Mr. Ayers and his cohorts bombed the Pentagon, and he has never expressed regret for his actions. Barack Obama’s ...

Obama Calls Born Alive Ad a "Despicable Lie"
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com — A few days ago a group called BornAliveTruth.org released a powerful ad featuring Gianna Jessen, an abortion survivor, knocking Barack Obama for his multiple votes against the Born Alive Infant... ...

Biden, visitor from alternate time-line?
Southern Appeal — This, from Ben Smith at Politico : Biden garbles Depression history Joe Biden’s denunciation of his own campaign’s ad to Katie Couric got so much attention last night that another odd note in the interview slipped by. He was speaking about the role of the White House in a financial crisis.“When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed,” Biden told Couric. “He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’” As Reason’s Jesse Walker  footnotes  it: “And if you owned an experimental TV set in 1929, you would have seen him. And you would have said to yourself, ‘Who is that ...

Part II of Peter Robinson’s interview with Archbishop Chaput
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“Abortion Changes You”
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Voting Rights Section 5
Southern Appeal — Those who closely followed the Senate hearings of SA “patron Saint” Bill Pryor will remember that one of the bogus charges against Pryor was that he had taken the “wrong” position on the Voting Rights Act (i.e. that he was at least insensitive to racism), ignoring the fact that black Democratic Georgia AG Thurbert Baker had taken the same position as Pryor. Well, now comes a case in which the part of the Act at issue then, Section 5, is being challenged as being unconstitutional. The plaintiffs are right, and I wrote about it today here ...

Another school free speech case
Southern Appeal — A fifth grader was suspended for wearing an anti-Obama tee-shirt after having been warned to take it off or turn it inside-out. I’m with the school administrators.  I follow Clarence Thomas’s line in Morse v. Frederick , aka the Bong Hits 4 Jesus case. In light of the history of American public education, it cannot seriously be suggested that the First Amendment “freedom of speech” encompasses a student’s right tos peak in public schools. Early public schools gave total control to teachers, who expected obedience and respect from students. And courts routinely deferred to schools’ authority to make rules and to discipline students for ...

Carol Platt Liebau: Obama Attacks Abortion Survivor
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — With this ad , Gianna Jessen launched a broadside against Barack Obama's repeated opposition to the Born Alive Infant Protection Act in Illinois (my column laying out the whole sordid history is here ). It's not surprising she'd object to his stance -- Jessen herself is the survivor of a botched abortion attempt. Barack's ad attacking Jessen (and inaccurately blaming John McCain for the ad) is here . He argues that his votes against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act are being "taken out of context." But here's the tip of the iceberg, quick and easy: After the US Senate passed a bill protecting babies born alive as a ...

Questioning Palin’s prolife credentials
Southern Appeal — I’ll let these comments from two contributors of Vox Nova speak for themselves:  ( Henry Karlson ) Sarah Palin is NOT pro-life. Don’t confuse “she is against abortion” with being “she is pro-life.” To be pro-life requires more than being against abortion. But her social justice (or lack of it) and her militarism indicates she has not yet appreciated the value of life. ( M.Z. Forrest ) [Palin] has a vagina. She used it 5 times to give birth. One time she did so for a child with Down Syndrome. Her daughter is even going to use her vagina to give birth, and brought her and the sperm donor to receive a round of applause at the Republican ...

Barr isn’t crazy enough to receive the coveted Ron Paul endorsement
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“The Biden Standard”
Southern Appeal — Another classic quip from my buddy Jonah Goldberg: And let’s not forget Biden, whose gaffes are the unavoidable byproduct of his limitless gasbaggery. Biden could shout on Meet the Press, “Get these squirrels off of me!” and the collective response would be, “There goes Joe again.” But if Palin flubs the name of the deputy agriculture minister of Kyrgyzstan, the media will blow their whistles saying she’s unprepared for the job. 

Abortion rate continues to fall
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“Humane” Society endorses Obama-Biden
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Danny Boy
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Pointing fingers
Southern Appeal — I’ve never been one to go around pointing fingers for every financial downturn because, in my humble opinion, there will always be financial “bubbles” where Wall Street funnels money, bubbles that eventually burst and tank the stock markets. If it isn’t one thing, it will be another. However, since Obama has decided to blame McCain and the GOP for the subprime crisis, I think a little education is in order ...

The UNDECIDEDS…
Southern Appeal — Although typical, certainly, this is a frightening poll result. From Rasmussen : Forty-one percent (41%) say they are certain to vote for Obama and will not change their mind. Forty percent (40%) say the same about McCain. The remaining 19% are the candidates’ target audience for Friday night’s debate. Who makes up this 19% of people who still don’t know who they’re going to vote for? Are these the people paying the most attention to the race but are just torn between candidates, or are they hapless, superficial flakes who probably shouldn’t vote but will anyway?  Ah, the wonders of the democratic process!

And now for something completely different: A Protestant Post
Southern Appeal — I am a sorry excuse for a Protestant, but a Protestant nonetheless. I was raised among the frozen chosen Methodists, but I have always liked the idea of the Southern Baptist Convention even though I wear shoes and believe the Earth has been around a good deal longer than 6,000 years. How can you not love a dogged commitment to principles backed by the orotund strains of The Old Rugged Cross ? Unfortunately, my anarcho-libertarian distaste for things like Jerry Falwell and Intelligent Design has recently tainted my view of the SBC, so I am thrilled to find something on which we can both agree: CNN commentator Roland Martin is an idiot ...

American Idealism
Southern Appeal — Barbara Ehrenreich has an interesting op-ed in the New York Times.  Now, I normally wouldn’t agree with anything either written by Ehrenreich or published in the Times, but she’s actually on to something here: GREED — and its crafty sibling, speculation — are the designated culprits for the financial crisis. But another, much admired, habit of mind should get its share of the blame: the delusional optimism of mainstream, all-American, positive thinking. As promoted by Oprah Winfrey, scores of megachurch pastors and an endless flow of self-help best sellers, the idea is to firmly believe that you will get what you want, not only because it ...

McCain suspends campaign to address “bailout”
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Figures. When Your Candidate Has a Record of Supporting Infanticide You Do What You Can to Redefine "Values Voter"
Gateway Pundit — When your candidate has consistently voted for infanticide of live babies you do what you can to help him out... Four times Barack Obama voted against a bill that would protect babies born alive and left to die after a failed abortion: Born Alive Truth has more on Obama's disgusting record on infanticide. Barack Obama said this about saving babies who survived abortions: "Essentially adding an additional doctor who then has to be called in an emergency situation to come ...

Letterman rips McCain for cancelling appearance
Southern Appeal — I gotta say, this doesn’t paint McCain in a positive light: YouTube Preview Image Here’s a little free advice for the McCain Campaign: If you cancel an appearance on a major late-night talk show because you’re rushing back to D.C. to address an economic crisis, then you should probably do just that.

Why doesn’t Obama get more involved?
Southern Appeal — Look, no matter how you view the bailout, it’s clear that something needs to happen. The Senate Banking Committee has to act. And Obama is a member of that committee. Isn’t he? I mean , he said he was. Responding to an Israeli reporter’s question Wednesday on his commitment to protect the Jewish state, Barack Obama pointed to a bill “we passed” in the U.S. Senate Banking Committee that tightens sanctions and authorizes divestment from Iran. “My committee,” he called it.Except that he isn’t a member of the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. “Just this past week, we passed out of the out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee - which ...

Bill Clinton: Elder Statesman
Southern Appeal — September 25, 2008 Bill Clinton: Elder Statesman Filed under: Election 2008 By Feddie ( Email ) @ 11:53 am Or he could just hate Obama . Either way, I appreciate him defending McCain. PermaLink | | Trackback/Pingback (0) Nobody Has Trackbacked Yet The trackback URL for this post: http://www.southernappeal.org/index.php/archives/4456/trackback Leave a Reply Name Mail (will not be published) Website XHTML: You can use these tags:

Obama campaign smears abortion survivor
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Lest we forget what started a lot (but necessarily all) of this mess
Southern Appeal — From a 1999 New York Times article : Fannie Mae, the nation’s biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stock holders to maintain its phenomenal growth in profits.  … In moving, even tentatively, into this new area of lending, Fannie Mae is taking on significantly more risk, which may not pose any difficulties during flush economic times. But the government-subsidized corporation may run into trouble in an economic downturn, prompting a government rescue similar to that of the savings and loan ...

Make of this what you will
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OBAMA, YOU GOT SOME ‘SPLAININ’ TO DO.
Southern Appeal — According to the Chicago Sun-Times , “a $100,000 state grant for a botanic garden in Englewood that then-state Sen. Barack Obama awarded in 2001 to a group headed by a one time campaign volunteer is now under investigation by the Illinois attorney general.” Apparently the garden was never built and $65,000 of the aforementioned amount ended up in the hands of the volunteer’s wife. The article summarized the project as follows: “Obama and Kenny Smith [the campaign contributor/volunteer] announced the “Englewood Botanic Garden Project” at a January 2000 news conference at Englewood High School. Obama was in the midst of a failed bid to oust South ...

Beyond disgraceful
Southern Appeal — September 25, 2008 Beyond disgraceful Filed under: Liberalism By Feddie ( Email ) @ 5:45 pm Democracy for America takes the low, low road .* *DMA was founded by Howard Dean. PermaLink | | Trackback/Pingback (0) Nobody Has Trackbacked Yet The trackback URL for this post: http://www.southernappeal.org/index.php/archives/4466/trackback Leave a Reply Name Mail (will not be published) Website XHTML: You can use these tags:

Excellent news on the stem-cell front
Southern Appeal — This is huge : In November of last year, researchers in Wisconsin and Japan announced that they had successfully transformed regular adult cells into the equivalent of embryonic stem cells without the need for embryos. The advance (involving so-called induced pluripotent stem cells or iPS cells) pointed to a potential path around the moral and political debate over embryonic stem cell research, but some advocates argued that because the technique relied on retroviruses, which might be connected to some risks of cancer, they might not be safe for clinical use. Today in the journal Science , a group of Harvard researchers reports ...

In a just world
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Barney Frank: financial genius
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Rome is burning
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Brilliant
Southern Appeal — Every day my decision not to renew my National Review subscription is affirmed just a bit more.  Here’s Kathleen Parker’s sage advice on NRO : Only Palin can save McCain, her party, and the country she loves. She can bow out for personal reasons, perhaps because she wants to spend more time with her newborn. No one would criticize a mother who puts her family first. Do it for your country. The complete and utter lack of common sense amongst Beltway conservatives - and let’s just overlook the fact for the moment that I live inside the Washington beltway - continues to astound me.  They are completely tone deaf, and Parker is oblivious to the ...

Steven Waldman: Why the Anti-Obama 'Botched Abortion" Ad Is Inaccurate
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — This anti-Obama ad featuring Gianna Jessen, the survivor of a botched abortion, is powerful and moving. It vividly shows the horrors of late term abortions, and reminds us of the powerfully important issues at stake in the abortion debate - including ideas that politicians like to sometimes gloss over. However, the one thing it does not prove is its central political claim: "My name is Gianna Jessen, born 31 years ago after a failed abortion. But if Barack Obama had his say, I wouldn't be here." Here's why. Pro-life advocates were recommending "Born Alive" legislation ...

Let Palin be Palin
Southern Appeal — While I am a staunch Republican, and a strong supporter of Governor Palin, I am more than willing to admit the obvious: Sarah Palin has not performed well in the major interviews she has done. Why is this? Is it because she’s stupid? I think not. By all accounts, Palin is a quick study and plenty smart.  So what gives? Why is Palin struggling so much in these interviews? Well, let’s start with the obvious: Governor Palin is simply not familiar with many of the national issues being debated in this presidential campaign.  She’s not a foreign-policy expert, and it is unfair to expect her to speak with any degree of expertise on Iraq, Afghanistan, or ...

The Oxford Debate
Southern Appeal — Have at it, folks. Virtual Blanton’s is on the house. :) [image]

‘I’m afraid Senator Obama doesn’t know the difference between a tactic and a strategy.’
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I have a bracelet too!
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“McCain is right”
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“I have a bracelet, too.”
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A few thoughts and observations on the debate
Southern Appeal — First of all, it’s pretty sweet that my alum mater hosted the first Presidential debate of the campaign.  Hotty Toddy! If you were watching C-SPAN before the debate got started, you heard moderator Jim Lehrer essentially say he wasn’t going to take any nonsense from the audience and would have no compunction in putting any houlighans in their place.    I was impressed; who knew a boring PBS guy could be something approaching bad-a**?“I have a bracelet, too”.  I think this expresses my opinion of that remark better that what I can write. McCain flubbed a couple of times in a row on Ahmadinejad’s name; he should have just taken the ...

Kudos to Bishop Jaime Soto
Southern Appeal — September 27, 2008 Trackback/Pingbacks: The trackback URL for this post: http://www.southernappeal.org/index.php/archives/4516/trackback Obama, “Hate Bush, Kill Bin Laden!” Riggword Weblog [...] “I was really annoyed with this line from Obama “… it’s been your president who you said …” No, President Bush is our President; yours, mine, and that of the rest of the 300 million Americans. Look, Bill Clinton, though I think very little of him, was my President from 1993 to 2001, just as Barack Obama would be my President if he should win.” (Southern Appeal) [...] No Rebel Yells to “Kudos to Bishop Jaime Soto” Leave a Reply ...

Paul Newman, RIP
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“Offense clicks on all cylinders for Irish”
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ROLL TIDE!!!!!! CONGRATS ON BEATING GEORGIA 41-30. THE REST OF THIS POST IS DEDICATED TO VICTOR MORTON.
Southern Appeal — [image] On 21 September 08 I offered a post celebrating Alabama’s victory over Arkansas to which Victor Morton responded as follows: “You beat a Darren McFadden-less Arkansas and now you think this Crimson Swell team is the second coming of the Bear? So you get to be undefeated going into your first real SEC game, against the Bulldogs. Being undefeated did Hawaii a fat lot of good going into the Sugar Bowl last year, didn’t it?”( Well Victor, after the beating Georgia took at the hands of Alabama during the first half you probably have an appreciation for what Hawaii felt like. ) As annoying and rude as the forgoing comment was ...

Endorsements for Return to Rome
Southern Appeal — [image] Brazos Press, the publisher of my forthcoming Return to Rome: Confessions of an Evangelical Catholic , has just published on its website the first four of many pre-publication endorsements . They are from Russell Hittinger, J. P. Moreland, Ronald Tacelli, S. J., and Scott Hahn. I have also published their comments on a page on the book’s website, Returntorome.com . I am honored and humbled that these wonderful Christian scholars have chosen to endorse this book, which was a true of labor of love.

Hotty Toddy!
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OBAMA CAMPAIGN ADOPTS POLICE STATE TACTICS TO SUPPRESS DISSENT
Southern Appeal — The Obama Campaign has recently adopted a truly frightening tactic in Missouri. Obama’s campaign is assembling a group of sympathetic prosecutors and law enforcement agents to “target” anyone they think is lying or misleading the public about Obama and his positions. If this intimidation tactic didn’t smack of fascism by its very nature, the title of this group, The Barack Obama Truth Squad, should dispel any lingering doubts. You can watch a local news report about the group here. ...

Obama and the Uh’s, Ah’s, and Ummm’s
Southern Appeal — Much has been made by some conservative pundits about Obama being teleprompter dependent and how he racks up the speech pauses when he goes off the cuff. One might recall Rush Limbaugh compiling just the “uh’s” in an Obama appearance for comedic effect or Hugh Hewitt wondering how many of the awkward pauses he would accumulate during the first debate. I don’t think the issue is that Obama is ‘prompter dependent or that he is inarticulate off the cuff. I followed him closely during the Democratic primary season and found him smooth whether working from prepared remarks or not. The reason he has begun to seem halting is simple. Obama runs effortlessly ...

Repeal the Community Reinvestment Act
Southern Appeal — Although no one thinks the CRA is the sole cause of our current financial crisis, it looks to me as if virtually everyone thinks it’s at least a partial cause of it — and many argue that it is the primary cause.  (I don’t have links for this proposition just now.  Trust me.  I’ll add some later.)  Surely if Congress has any interest in making sure we don’t go through another such crisis in the future, it will repeal the Act.  Right?  Here’s Cato chairman William Niskanen ...

While we were fiddling . . .
Southern Appeal — http://i35.tinypic.com/t83gx1.jpg Howard Fineman has declared the “bailout” to be the end of Reagan-era conservative economic politics, and I believe he may be right. While we have been running around in circles over the upcoming election, the music stopped, and Conservatives are the ones without a chair. There has been a lot of finger pointing over the past couple of weeks about who is responsible for our current economic “adjustment.” Despite the fact that it has been two decades since we have had a true Conservative in the White House and the fact that the Free Market-Wall Street connection is a myth, the perception is that we ...

“House defeats financial industry bailout bill”
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Political ramifications of the bailout vote
Southern Appeal — I’m not one of those huge, anti-bailout guys, though I think it sounds like a mistake.  But I keep hearing commentators suggest that this will kill the GOP in the upcoming elections.  Perhaps.  But how does voting against something that a majority of Americans oppose hurt you?  Am I missing something in the political calculation of all this?  I’d really like an explanation on this one.

Martin Sheen does ad for Coalition Against Assisted Suicide
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MAKE YOUR OWN OBAMA LOGO
Southern Appeal — THIS is an interesting site that lets you make your own Obama logo. I think the one I made pretty much says it all. Have fun! [image]

The Case for Tough Love
Southern Appeal — The risk-adverse side of me wants to see Congress pump $700,000,000,000.00 into the private sector. When bad things are happening, I think it is natural to want to see a proactive approach — to do something. What is tough for me is recognizing that my bailout desire is a product of fear, and not a reasoned decision based on what is best in the long term. Let’s face it, any Adam Smith worshipper should cringe at the thought of a “government bailout” of private markets. That said, there is an argument for doing nothing ...

And The Biggest Pile of Chutzpah Award goes to…
Southern Appeal — Barney Frank! Mr. Frank received the award for this statement about the failout. …Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., chairman of the House Financial Services Committee [said]: “Because somebody hurt their feelings, they decided to punish the country.” As they say on the Interwebs, “I see what you did there.” Frank, one of the prime architects–and by “architects,” I mean “strongarm artists”–of this debacle, has turned around and blamed others for not riding to his rescue. It’s like an alcoholic who’s pickled his liver after 30 years of swigging, then blames his friends for not forcibly locking him in rehab. Or the abusive spouse (insert your own ...

MARK STEYN GETS IT EXACTLY RIGHT
Southern Appeal — September 30, 2008 MARK STEYN GETS IT EXACTLY RIGHT Filed under: 2008 By Joel L ( Email ) @ 6:53 am Mark Steyn provides a voice of reason and prudence on this financial crises. I believe he has it exactly right. Read his post here. What is required here is prudent, cautious action, not a spasmodic knee-jerk reaction. PermaLink | | Trackback/Pingback (0) Nobody Has Trackbacked Yet The trackback URL for this post: http://www.southernappeal.org/index.php/archives/4583/trackback Leave a Reply Name Mail (will not be published) Website XHTML: You can use these tags: ...

O.k., this is creepy
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The McCain/Palin Joint Appearance on CBS
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Austria vs. Chicago
Southern Appeal — Leave it to a Canadian to come up with the best explanation I’ve seen regarding the current Conservative schism over the bailout. A taste: If he were to rise from the dead today, Marx might be delighted to discover that most economists and financial commentators, including many who claim to favour the free market, agree with him. Indeed, analysts at the Heritage and Cato Institute, and commentators in The Wall Street Journal and on this very page, have made declarations in favour of the massive “injection of liquidities” engineered by central banks in recent months, the government takeover of giant financial institutions, as well as the ...

Biden: “I was shot at in Iraq!”
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Archbishop Burke: “Dems risk becoming a party of death”
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Palin invokes Gov. Bob Casey Sr. in her stump speech
Southern Appeal — This is excellent : Third, I’ll be helping families who have children with special needs, which is an issue close to my heart. That great governor, Robert Casey of Pennsylvania, he was asked once how society should treat the most vulnerable among us, such as children with special needs. He said it simple. He said, you put them first in line. Governor Casey reminded us that these beautiful children, who we are to cherish, they can inspire a special love. They’re not a problem. They are a priority . Governor Casey was a devout Catholic, a true-blue prolife democrat, and one of my political heroes. His presence in the Democratic Party is sorely ...

GO SEE APPALOOSA THIS WEEKEND
Southern Appeal — After I returned from Iraq a little over a year ago my wife and I celebrated with a vacation to Mexico. While I was waiting in the airport I stopped by a book store to pick up something to read on the plane. The book that caught my eye was Appaloosa by Robert Parker. ...

“Top ten ways you know you’re on a Catholic blog”
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Kudos to Bishop Martino
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“Is Veep debate moderator Gwen Ifill biased?”
Southern Appeal — Giving the bayonet to the “dictatorship of relativism” since 2002 October 1, 2008 “Is Veep debate moderator Gwen Ifill biased?” Filed under: Election 2008 By Feddie ( Email ) @ 12:06 pm Uh, is there any doubt that there would be howls of protest from the other side if the moderator of tomorrow night’s debate was penning a book on “The Age of McCain” or “The Age of Palin” ? No media bias here, folks. Move along, please. PermaLink | | Trackback/Pingback (0) Nobody Has Trackbacked Yet The trackback URL for this post: http://www.southernappeal.org/index.php/archives/4609/trackback Leave a Reply Name Mail ...

Kudos to the Knights of Columbus
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“Financial Crisis Has Little Sway in Presidential Poll”
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“Obama campaign funded by foreign citizens”
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Dem Deceit Hits New Low-- "Pro-Life Obama" Website Created
Gateway Pundit — Disgusting! Democrats change the meaning of "Pro-Life" to deceive voters about their Far Left candidate, Barack Obama, who voted four times to approve infanticide of newborn babies! Pro-Life Obama-- In case you forgot, this is Barack Obama in his own words defending the slaughter of a baby born alive after surviving an abortion: "Essentially adding an additional doctor who then has to be called in an emergency situation to come in and make these assessments is really designed simply to burden the ...

Kmiec continues to make excuses for Obama the proabort
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And people wonder why I pine for a benign monarchy
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SCOTUS denies rehearing in Kennedy v. Louisiana
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Vatican Official Exposes Democrats as "Party of Death"
Gateway Pundit — A leading Vatican official and former St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke called Democrats the "Party of Death" for its decisions on bio-ethical issues. It doesn't help that their candidate has voted 4 times to support infanticide of newborn babies. Burke is not the only one speaking out against the democratic policies on life. Abortion survivor Gianna Jessen blasted Obama for his awful record on life in a devastating ad: BornAliveTruth.org has much more on Obama's voting record supporting ...

Maybe he’ll say she rides on water?
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“Sarah Palin And The Integrity Gap”
Southern Appeal — October 2, 2008 “Sarah Palin And The Integrity Gap” Filed under: Palin By Feddie ( Email ) @ 3:48 pm Dan McLaughlin, my co-blogger at RedState, has today’s must-read post . PermaLink | | Trackback/Pingback (0) Nobody Has Trackbacked Yet The trackback URL for this post: http://www.southernappeal.org/index.php/archives/4631/trackback Leave a Reply Name Mail (will not be published) Website XHTML: You can use these tags:

Veep Debate Open Threat
Southern Appeal — Let him have it, Governor Palin. [image] I am praying that at some point in the debate Biden says that Palin’s views on abortion are extreme, which will then set up Palin to respond as follows: “So, sharing the same view of abortion as your Church makes me an extremist, Joe?”

Ramesh on Palin
Southern Appeal — As many of y’all know, National Review Online is down right now. Well, my good friend Ramesh Ponnuru and I have been emailing one another throughout the debate, and I asked him if I could post his thoughts on Governor Palin’s performance. He graciously agreed, so here they are: Any conservative who was white-knuckled going into this is relaxing by now. There were some points where she was a bit more platitudinous than one would ideally want, but overall–she’s cleaning up. Biden is sighing more as the night goes on, and I can see why. I could not agree more. Well done, Governor Palin! You did us proud. Update : Heh. Ramesh just sent me this gem: “Biden ...

O’Reilly loses it on Frank
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On Intramural Palin Battles Among Conservatives
Southern Appeal — We’ve got our Conor Friedersdorfs and Kathleen Parkers shooting at Sarah Palin and Erick Ericksons defending her. The defenders wonder what team the critics are on. The critics appeal to intellectual honesty. I appeal to the concept of edificiation. Do the words we write or say actually contribute anything to the election and to the civic discussion? Are they adequately considered after time to look at all the evidence? If I look at it in those terms, I have to side with the defenders. The only possible way the critics could be in the right is if the writer really believes Palin is unfit to serve. I have a hard time believing that a bad interview ...

O.J. Found Guilty
Southern Appeal — October 4, 2008 O.J. Found Guilty Filed under: 2008 By Patrick Carver ( Email ) @ 2:18 pm O.J. Simpson was found guilty on Friday of “ robbing two sports-memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel room ” and could spend the rest of his life in jail.  But, who will continue the search for Nicole’s real killer? PermaLink | | Trackback/Pingback (0) Nobody Has Trackbacked Yet The trackback URL for this post: http://www.southernappeal.org/index.php/archives/4655/trackback Leave a Reply Name Mail (will not be published) Website XHTML: You can use these tags: ...

Palin says Obama “pals around” terrorists
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TIDE SURVIVES TO GO 6-0
Southern Appeal — [image] Number 2 Bama holds on against Kentucky 17-14. I hope that represents the worst performance the Tide puts in this season. Congrats to Kentucky for a tough game.

More on Pro-Palin/Anti-Palin
Southern Appeal — Daniel Larison of The American Conservative takes issue with my taking issue with the conservative Palin critics. He feels pretty strongly she’s an empty suit (empty skirt?). He thought her convention speech was substance-free and her debate performance was mediocre. I view things a bit differently. That convention speech was one of the finest political performances I’ve ever seen. The line about not seeking the good opinion of the media/political elite alone was worth the price of admission. And not just in entertainment value. That was substance. It was about embracing a different scale of values than those some think are so ...

Notre Dame 28, Stanford 21
Southern Appeal — [image] My brothers Jim and Pat, me, and our Dad at Notre Dame Stadium this afternoon. Wish you were with us, Steve Dillard.

SNL VP Debate Skit
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On speaking Southern
Southern Appeal — Courtesy of the Nashville Scene :“Bless your heart.” An ancient Confederate curse, used in cases of extreme censure. Rough translation: “F*ck you, Yankee.” Sample usage: “You’re supporting Obama? Why, bless your heart .” I realize this post is a tad on the blue side, but I laughed my hindquarters off when I read that. ( Lv Feddie’s Mom )

“The Vatican Echoes Ponnuru”
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“American Catholic”
Southern Appeal — October 6, 2008 “American Catholic” Filed under: Blogosphere , Catholicism/Catholic Culture By Feddie ( Email ) @ 4:58 am A promising new Catholic blog . Check it out. PermaLink | | Trackback/Pingback (0) Nobody Has Trackbacked Yet The trackback URL for this post: http://www.southernappeal.org/index.php/archives/4679/trackback Leave a Reply Name Mail (will not be published) Website XHTML: You can use these tags:

Brian McLaren and Barack Obama
Southern Appeal — I have read Brian McLaren’s work to the profit of my own thinking.  He has many good ideas and has stimulated the church in important ways. However, I think he has a major blind spot when it comes to politics.  McLaren recently came out in support of Barack Obama’s campaign for the presidency. ...

WHY OBAMA’S ASSOCIATION WITH WILLIAM AYERS IS IMPORTANT
Southern Appeal — Every time Obama’s association with William Ayers is brought up Obama supporters love to point out that Obama was only eight when Ayers was trying to kill servicemen & women and law enforcement personnel. Furthermore, they claim that he was unaware of the activities of Ayers and his fellow terrorists. I think this article ...

Academics supporting Bill Ayers
Southern Appeal — There’s now a website where academics can sign a statement in support of Bill Ayers, who has recently come under renewed scrutiny due to his associations with Senator Obama. Here are some of the more deranged excerpts: The current characterizations of Professor Ayers—“unrepentant terrorist,” “lunatic leftist”—are unrecognizable to those who know or work with him. It’s true that Professor Ayers participated passionately in the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s, as did hundreds of thousands of Americans. *     *     * [T]he attacks on and the character assassination of Ayers threaten the university as a space of open inquiry and ...

The Woods Fund board - see it for yourself.
Southern Appeal — Thanks to what is called the Wayback Machine  (a website that was immensely helpful to me during my tenure appeal), I was able to obtain several deleted web pages of the Woods Fund that list the names of Senator Barack Obama and Professor William Ayers as members of its board. Although this association between these two men is not disputed, there’s no substitute for seeing it in print. You can find a pdf of the page with the 2001 board here and the 2003 board here . The Wayback Machine copy of the original pages may be found here  (October 2001) and the second here (March 2003). Notice that Senator Obama served ...

Biden Lied, and Why it Matters
Southern Appeal — October 7, 2008 Biden Lied, and Why it Matters Filed under: 2008 By Quin Hillyer ( Email ) @ 2:24 pm Today at the Examiner, I explain how John McCain can make hay (and good sense) from Joe Biden’s debate discussion of judicial nominations. PermaLink | | Trackback/Pingback (0) Nobody Has Trackbacked Yet The trackback URL for this post: http://www.southernappeal.org/index.php/archives/4695/trackback Leave a Reply Name Mail (will not be published) Website XHTML: You can use these tags:

Look Mommy, a middle-aged “lady” who never grew up
Southern Appeal — [image] Read about it here.   Nevertheless, as a gesture of good will, I will allow Madonna to attend any of my lectures .

Threats to the American way of life
Southern Appeal — October 7, 2008 Threats to the American way of life Filed under: 2008 By Crankycon ( Email ) @ 6:23 pm According to Mark Warner, among the groups that are “threatening to what it means to be an American” are the NRA, pro-lifers, and homeschoolers.  When I saw Regular Guy Paul write about this, I thought that he must be exaggerating. Nope. YouTube Preview Image PermaLink | | Trackback/Pingback (0) Nobody Has Trackbacked Yet The trackback URL for this post: http://www.southernappeal.org/index.php/archives/4703/trackback Leave a Reply Name Mail (will not be published) Website XHTML: You can use ...

Debate open thread
Southern Appeal — October 7, 2008 Debate open thread Filed under: 2008 By Crankycon ( Email ) @ 8:06 pm Have at it. PermaLink | | Trackback/Pingback (0) Nobody Has Trackbacked Yet The trackback URL for this post: http://www.southernappeal.org/index.php/archives/4705/trackback Leave a Reply Name Mail (will not be published) Website XHTML: You can use these tags:

David Brooks: Sarah Palin “represents a fatal cancer” to GOP
Southern Appeal — Does David Brooks even pretend to be a conservative anymore? Can we finally acknowledge that this man isn’t even remotely interested in what motivates outside the Beltway - or even inside the Beltway - conservatives?   Here’s what Brooks had to say ...

Fairweatherman friendship?:Testimony of a victim of Professor Ayers’ terrorism
Southern Appeal — This appeared today on JohnMcCain.com : Statement From John M.Murtagh On Barack Obama’s Relationship With William Ayers ARLINGTON, VA — Today, John M. Murtagh made the following statement on Barack Obama’s relationship with William Ayers:“When I was 9 years-old the Weather Underground, the terrorist group founded by Barack Obama’s friend William Ayers, firebombed my house. Barack Obama has dismissed concerns about his relationship with Ayers by noting that he was only a child when Ayers was planting bombs at the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol. But Ayers has never apologized for his crimes, he has reveled in them, expressing regret only for the ...

In 1996 Barack Obama supported same-sex marriage, though Obama supporter, Kmiec, says his present views would likely establish it nationwide.
Southern Appeal — It can be found in the Wayback Machine here . There’s a regular web version here . Scroll down to 13th District. According to Obama supporter , Doug Kmiec, the senator’s present position –repealing the 1996 Federal Defense of Marriage Act while opposing both same-sex marriage as well as bans on same-sex marriage (don’t ask me to try to make those two positions coherent)–would lead to the proliferation of same-same marriage. Professor Kmiec made these comments in August 2007 . ( cross-posted )

Radio Silence
Southern Appeal — Hey sportsfans, sorry for the lack of posting the last three days. I’ve been in a jury trial all week (which is extremely rare for me), and it just ended late this afternoon. The good news is that my clients, who are wonderful folks, prevailed on a $5.5 million dollar claim filed against the estate, and we were able to secure a $175,000 judgment for our side. Needless to say, it was a good day. And I have to say, I actually felt like a “real lawyer” over the last three days. I’ve only slept 12 hours since Sunday, but it’s been fun. Regular blogging should resume tomorrow.

BARACK OBAMA WAS A MEMBER OF A SOCIALIST PARTY
Southern Appeal — Apparently, Barack Obama was a member of an organization called the “New Party,” a subsidiary of The Democratic Socialists of America. Below you can see documents from these organizations establishing Obama’s connection and membership. [image] ...

Newsom on Appellate Advocacy
Southern Appeal — Law Dragon has an excellent interview with future supreme-court justice, and FOF (’Friend of Feddie”), Kevin Newsom. Kevin offers sage advice in this interview to anyone who aspires to be an effective appellate lawyer. Here’s a taste: LD: Has your argument style evolved over the years? KN: I don’t really know if it’s evolved. The truth is whether I am talking to you or hanging out with friends or playing with my kids or standing at the podium in the Supreme Court, it’s all the same. I’m the same guy – it’s the only way I know how to be. My view has always been that the best oral advocates are conversationalists. You have to get over the ...

Craig Hazen’s review of Bill Maher’s film, Religulous
Southern Appeal — My good friend, Craig J. Hazen (Professor of Comparative Religion and Apologetics, Biola University), just published a nice review of Bill Maher’s mocumentary, Religulous. Here’s an excerpt : It was pretty clear that the few folks attracted to the movie were already fans of Bill Maher and his open hostility to all things religious. Why, then, so little laughter from them? I think it’s obvious. Anyone who fits that strange “I’m smarter than Blaise Pascal, John Milton, C.S. Lewis, Maimonidies, and Averroes put together” mold has already had his laughs. After all, anyone who is able to work a TV remote control has immediate and ...

Associating Obama with a white man = xenophobia and racism?
Southern Appeal — I’m a little perplexed by this NYT editorial. And not in the usual “What kind of lobotomized Paris Hiltons are running this pathetic excuse for a Che Guevara-worshipping freakshow?” way. Take a clicklook . It is a sorry fact of American political life that campaigns get ugly, often in their final weeks. But Senator John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin have been running one of the most appalling campaigns we can remember. They have gone far beyond the usual fare of quotes taken out of context and distortions of an opponent’s record — into the dark territory of race-baiting and xenophobia. Senator Barack Obama has taken some cheap shots at Mr. ...

“Ocho And Marvin, Under One Roof! The Dog Episode”
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“Straw Everywhere”
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The Economic Crisis Explained
Southern Appeal — The mortgage based security crisis has confounded me because I keep thinking, “So what if the mortgages fail, that’s what the underlying asset is for. Why is this thing so intractable?” One gentleman in particular seems to have it laid out in a sensible and understandable fashion. I give you the thoughts of a fella named Uncle Bud ...

The Final Cut
Southern Appeal — During the summer, I watched a film starring Robin Williams in a dramatic role.  Contrary to his comedian image, I’ve always thought he was better as a serious actor.  This particular film, The Final Cut , was about a future in which it is possible to have a bio-implant that essentially records every event of one’s life.  At death, it is removed and a “cutter” reviews the material (organized by the software into amazing categories) for compilation into a remembrance. As you might imagine, the raw footage is all too honest.  The only people who ever see it are the cutters.  They know the real truth, but rarely show it.  The surviving friends and ...

Christian Higher Education
Southern Appeal — I have spent the last five years of my life with two goals. One has been to write a book about secularism which would demonstrate what I believe to be the uselessness of the concept.  That goal has been achieved.  The End of Secularism comes out in August 2009 with Crossway Books. The other has been to do anything I can to take Christian higher education to the next level.  I worked to that end while trying to save the presidency of Robert Sloan at Baylor University.  What I saw there was a growing community of serious Christian scholars taking shape.  Those on the outside can laugh if they want, but what I saw happening there in Waco was the first ...

Just a thought re: McCain’s base
Southern Appeal — So McCain is catching flak from crowds when he says, in essence, to go easy on Obama. Could it be that there’s a lot more people than you might fathom at first blush who are abso-doggone-lutely disgusted with Obama’s terrorist and racist ties? And that maybe the Bradley Effect ...

Disengaged
Southern Appeal — As y’all know, this past week I was lead counsel in the biggest jury trial of my career. It lasted three days, and during that time I missed the second presidential debate and didn’t watch the news at all. It was a truly wonderful experience. I know this is an important election, and I certainly recognize what’s at stake. But right now, I could honestly care less. I don’t know that I’ve ever been this disengaged this close to a presidential election. Honestly, I just want it to be over.

“Palin criticizes Obama on abortion at Pa. rally”
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ABC Refuses to Run Right to Life Ad Against Obama
Gateway Pundit — More silencing of the Obama critics... ABC television network is refusing to run an ad by a pro-life group that attacks Obama on his pro-abortion and infanticide voting record. Pro-Life groups have been very hard on Obama this year for his 4 votes in support of infanticide: The fact that Obama supported such a barbaric practice is something the media wants to keep a lid on. LifeNews.com reported: The ABC television network is coming under fire from a leading pro-life group for ...

On unhinged supporters
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Thomas More Studies Conference
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Obama’s Economic Plan
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Zogby: Obama 48%, McCain 44%
Southern Appeal — October 13, 2008 Zogby: Obama 48%, McCain 44% Filed under: Election 2008 By Feddie ( Email ) @ 5:35 pm I have a hard time believing that this poll is right , but these days I’ll take what I can get. PermaLink | | Trackback/Pingback (0) Nobody Has Trackbacked Yet The trackback URL for this post: http://www.southernappeal.org/index.php/archives/4780/trackback Leave a Reply Name Mail (will not be published) Website XHTML: You can use these tags:

“Gay Marriage Is Ruled Legal in Connecticut”
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“Vatican Official Simplifies Voting Guidlelines for American Catholics”
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Thank You for Not Drinking the Kool-Aid
Southern Appeal — On October 10, 2008, Christopher Buckley, the son of the great William F. Buckley, author of Thank You for Not Smoking and National Review shareholder/back page columnist, informed the waiting world that he’s pulling the lever for Obama in November.  He unburdened himself on a website appropriately named The Daily Beast. ...

The Return of Big Labor
Southern Appeal — Obama and the Super Majority Senate. When I read it, it sounds like I’m rolling the name of some alternative band across my tongue, but I have to admit that the idea actually scares me. Any reader of this blog is well aware of the future threat to the Supreme Court, abortion, mandatory healthcare, tax increases, etc., but there is one piece of the agenda that hasn’t got much airplay that could affect Conservatives the most because it could change the rules of the game. It’s no secret that there are no bigger lackeys on the left than the union bosses. For the better part of the century, the Dems have handed over the money and freedom of working men and ...

And the question remains: Just who is Barack Obama?
Southern Appeal — Stanley Kurtz gives us some insight into Obama’s character with this excellent piece . Here’s the money quote: However he may seek to deny it, all evidence points to the fact that, from his position as board chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Barack Obama knowingly and persistently funded an educational project that shared the extremist and anti-American philosophy of Jeremiah Wright . The Wright affair was no fluke. It’s time for McCain to say so.

“Obama’s Abortion Extremism” by Robert P. George
Southern Appeal — (HT: Justin Taylor ; cross-posted ) The following appeared this morning on the Witherspoon Institute’s new blog, The Public Discourse . It is authored by my good friend,  Robert P. George , McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. This should be distributed far and wide to Catholic and Evangelical groups throughout the United States. (It is republished here with Professor George’s permission) Obama’s Abortion Extremism Robert P. George* Barack Obama is the most extreme pro-abortion candidate ever to seek the office of ...

Chief Justice John Roberts
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The Wilderness calls
Southern Appeal — Well, tonight is the final presidential debate . And unless Senator Obama has a meltdown of historical proportions (e.g., “Damn right, I support infanticide! I hate babies!”), I don’t see the polls tightening up to any great degree. Things look grim, folks. Very grim. There is always a chance that McCain could pull this thing off, but that seems less likely by the day. I, for one, am just about ready to purchase a ticket to the Wilderness, where the Blanton’s runs free and there is nothing to watch but ESPN.  Otherwise, I have no doubt that my new penumbra-loving overlords fully intend to send my sorry hindquarters to a reeducation camp for ...

Welcome to the party, pal
Southern Appeal — The utter hypocrisy of Obama-supporting “conservatives,” especially Chris Buckley, has been captured by Jay Anderson in an update to a post that I linked to previously .  Remember how Buckley whined about all us mean conservatives taking objection to his insufficiently supported decision to vote for Barack Obama?  If you recall, Buckley wrote this: So, I have been effectively fatwahed (is that how you spell it?) by the conservative movement, and the magazine that my father founded must now distance itself from me. But then, conservatives have always had a bit of trouble with the concept of diversity. The GOP likes to say it’s a ...

Reagan’s Response to the Call of the Wilderness
Southern Appeal — Feddie: I certainly understand your concerns (and dare I say it depression) regarding the results of the upcoming election.  But consider one of my favorite quotes from President Reagan:“We’re blessed with the opportunity to stand for something - for liberty and freedom and fairness - and these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.  And we have good reason to be hopeful and optimistic.  We have made much progress already.  So let us go forth with good cheer and stout hearts, happy warriors out to seize back a country and a world to freedom.”   America is amazingly resilient country.  Just consider what we have done in the past.  ...

My 30-Year High School Reunion
Southern Appeal — I just got back from 7 days in Las Vegas for my 30-year high school reunion. I graduated in 1978 from Bishop Gorman High School in Vegas, the city where I grew up. Here are some pictures of the October 11 party that I posted on my website, francisbeckwith.com .  My wife and I had an amazing time. It was great to catch up with so many friends, two of whom, Jaime Holcomb and Ricardo Hawkins , were my teammates on Gorman’s first big school (AAA) state championship basketball team (1978).  Also present was Bob Glennen , with whom I was on both the track and cross-country teams. ( cross-posted )

Laura Ingraham v. Heather McDonald on Sarah Palin
Southern Appeal — You can listen here . My take: McDonald–with “a self-ordained professor’s tongue too serious to fool” ( to borrow from B. Dylan )–reveals a deep loathing for those who do not share her cultural proclivity for academic pedigree, pontifical articulation, and self-congratulatory verbosity. She is, sadly, not alone among the hob nob right snobs. She is joined by the linguistically adept David Brooks, David Frum, Chris Buckley, and Kathleen Parker. They, of course, like George Barnard Shaw, Aldous Huxley, and Margaret Sanger, write well, think big thoughts, and attend all the right parties. To clip and paste from a famous line offered by ...

Why I love Sarah Palin
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Obama, Abortion, and the Objective Record
Southern Appeal — The philosopher Robert George takes a backseat to no one when it comes to thinking and writing about abortion and the sanctity of life.  As Francis Beckwith (another noted philosopher of bioethics) has pointed out, Professor George has taken the time to carefully parse Obama’s positions on life issues. ...

The Final Debate
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Joe the Plumber
Southern Appeal — October 15, 2008 Joe the Plumber Filed under: McCain By Feddie ( Email ) @ 9:33 pm Senator McCain needs to run commercials featuring Joe the Plumber starting tomorrow. PermaLink | | Trackback/Pingback (0) Nobody Has Trackbacked Yet The trackback URL for this post: http://www.southernappeal.org/index.php/archives/4862/trackback Leave a Reply Name Mail (will not be published) Website XHTML: You can use these tags:

Some adivce for Senator Obama
Southern Appeal — Dear Senator Obama: I thought you could use some advice from another member of Congress who came from the State of Illinois - Abraham Lincoln: You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.  You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.  You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.  You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.   You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.  You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence.  You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.

Obama, the lying proabort
Southern Appeal — October 16, 2008 Obama, the lying proabort Filed under: Abortion , Barack Obama By Feddie ( Email ) @ 1:02 pm Ed Whelan has the details here . PermaLink | | Trackback/Pingback (0) Nobody Has Trackbacked Yet The trackback URL for this post: http://www.southernappeal.org/index.php/archives/4865/trackback Leave a Reply Name Mail (will not be published) Website XHTML: You can use these tags:

Gallup: Obama 47%, McCain 45%
Southern Appeal — October 16, 2008 Nobody Has Trackbacked Yet The trackback URL for this post: http://www.southernappeal.org/index.php/archives/4871/trackback One Rebel Yell to “Gallup: Obama 47%, McCain 45%” Dale Price Says: October 16th, 2008 at 4:00 pm My mantra has been that the polls are too volatile to make any pronouncements yet. Unless we see the undecideds start gravitating in numbers, this is going to be another white-knuckler. Leave a Reply Name Mail (will not be published) Website XHTML: You can use these tags:

“A crypto culture of life director?”
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Awesomely Funny McCain!
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Robert George (and Yuval Levin) respond to Obama’s born-alive claim in the debate
Southern Appeal — Earlier this week , I linked to an essay by Princeton professor  Robert P. George (” Obama’s Abortion Extremism “) clearly showing that Senator Obama’s views on abortion are the most extreme of any presidential candidate in U. S. History. Now, with Yuval Levin, Professor George replies to Obama’s misleading defense of his abortion record in Wednesday’s debate. Here are some excerpts from the essay: Obama’s latest excuse for opposing the Illinois Born-Alive Infants Protection Act is that the law was ”unnecessary” because babies surviving abortions were already protected. It won’t fly. In last night’s presidential debate, ...

Both Sides Against the Middle
Southern Appeal — Currently, there is a ballot initiative in Colorado, Amendment 49, which shows the hypocrisy of Left Wing “Good Government” types, but also points out how your “friends” can turn on you. Under the current system, union bosses and other groups can use the government payroll system to collect money from workers — much like the Social Security Administration uses private business to collect money. I can’t describe it any better than this guy: YouTube Preview Image ...

Jesus was an unlicensed carpenter
Southern Appeal — Senator Obama's supporters are making a big deal of the fact that Joe the Plumber is unlicensed.  It's now time to play the Messiah card: Jesus was an unlicensed carpenter, and Brutus was a senator. Ironically, the Romans were innovators in sewage management and plumbing. This probably put the crap hole ...

McCain Defends Joe the Plumber
Southern Appeal — [image] This just up on Drudge , from McCain’s remarks just moments ago in Miami: MCCAIN DEFENDS THE PLUMBER REMARKS IN MIAMI, FL Fri Oct 17 2008 13:45:02 ET It’s great to be here in Miami. Florida is a must-win state on November 4th, and with your help, we’re going to win Florida, and bring change to Washington, DC. We had a good debate this week. You may have noticed– there was a lot of talk about Senator Obama’s tax increases and Joe the Plumber. Last weekend, Senator Obama showed up in Joe’s driveway to ask for his vote, and Joe asked Senator Obama a tough question. I’m glad he did; I think Senator Obama could use a few more ...

My response to Eduardo Peñalver on the Commonweal blog
Southern Appeal — In response to George Weigel’s Newsweek piece , Cornell University law prof, Eduardo Peñalver writes on the Commonweal blog : With an Obama win looking increasingly likely, Catholic Republicans are pulling out all the stops to press the argument that Catholics cannot in good faith vote for a pro-choice candidate, or at least a candidate whose positions on abortion are as stark as Obama’s. George Weigel takes a crack at this in a column in Newsweek. Lots of interesting stuff in there, but this paragraph struck me as particularly important and wrong [FJB: I've excised some portions of this quote ...

McCain on the Supreme Court
Southern Appeal — Courtesy of Human Events: Q: On the Supreme Court, you have said you will make nominations of strict constructionists in the mold of Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts. If such nominees are “borked,” defeated for confirmation in the Senate, will you promise to continue to send similar constructionist nominees to the Senate for confirmation? A: Absolutely. I will send [judicial nominees] to the Senate with a record of strictly interpreting the Constitution of the United States . That’s what the founding fathers said they should do. It’s not an idea of mine. That’s what the founding fathers said when they called for the separation of ...

Texas is a southern state
Southern Appeal — I have now officially spoken on the matter, and there will be no further debate. Any state that fought for the Confederacy is, by definition, southern. Dissent on this issue will not be tolerated. (I am looking at you, Hunter Baker) [image]

Archbishop Chaput on Doug Kmiec
Southern Appeal — In an essay called “Little Murders,” Archbishop Charles Chaput of the Catholic Archdiocese of Denver has this to say about Professor Doug Kmiec , “prolife” supporter of the most pro-abortion presidential candidate in American history, Barack Obama: Prof. Kmiec has a strong record of service to the Church and the nation in his past. He served in the Reagan administration, and he supported Mitt Romney’s campaign for president before switching in a very public way to Barack Obama earlier this year. In his own book he quotes from  Render Unto Caesar  at some length. In fact, he suggests that his reasoning and mine are ”not far distant on ...

Obama, the lying proabort redux
Southern Appeal — October 18, 2008 Obama, the lying proabort redux Filed under: Abortion , Barack Obama , Infanticide By Feddie ( Email ) @ 6:42 am Be sure not to miss Robert George and Yuval Levin’s masterful takedown of Born Alive Barry . (I realize that Frank has already mentioned this piece, but it is worth reemphasizing. This issue is that important, folks) PermaLink | | Trackback/Pingback (0) Nobody Has Trackbacked Yet The trackback URL for this post: http://www.southernappeal.org/index.php/archives/4916/trackback Leave a Reply Name Mail (will not be published) Website XHTML: You can use these ...

Why I love Sarah Palin (redux)
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Feddie on the Radio (and Video)
Southern Appeal — October 18, 2008 Feddie on the Radio (and Video) Filed under: Personal , Radio By Feddie ( Email ) @ 6:20 pm You can view my latest appearance on the “Kenny B. and Charles E. Richardson” radio show from this past Thursday here  (fast forward to the 1:12:00 mark). PermaLink | | Trackback/Pingback (0) Nobody Has Trackbacked Yet The trackback URL for this post: http://www.southernappeal.org/index.php/archives/4927/trackback Leave a Reply Name Mail (will not be published) Website XHTML: You can use these tags:

Sarah Palin on SNL
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“Just some guy in the neighborhood”
Southern Appeal — Senator Obama barely knew the guy, I tell ya. [image]

BAMA BEATS OLE MISS 24-20 AND REMAINS UNDEFEATED
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MR. OBAMA’S NEIGHBORHOOD
Southern Appeal — Obama has said that Ayers was “just some guy in my neighborhood.” Lets take a look at some of the people in Mr. Obama’s neighborhood. [image] [image] [image] Wow, that is some hate filled neighborhood. I find it disturbing that these people are drawn to Obama and that he associates with them. At the very least this demonstrates either a staggering level of naivete or galacticly poor judgement. Neither reflect well on Obama

General Colin Powell endorses…
Southern Appeal — Senator Ted Stevens, the disgraced head honcho of the Republican machine that Sarah Palin fought against. General Powell served as a character witness at the senator's trial in Alaska earlier this month.  In other news, General Powell endorsed Barack Obama for President of the U.S. on Meet the Press this morning. ...

Archbishop Slams Committed Abortion & Infanticide Candidate Obama
Gateway Pundit — Pro-Life groups have been very hard on Obama this year for his 4 votes in support of infanticide: As an Illinois State Senator, Barack Obama opposed the Illinois Born Alive Infants Protection Act. The legislation defined any infant born alive as a "person” who deserves full legal protection. Today... Denver archbishop Charles Chaput labeled infanticide supporter Barack Obama as the "most committed" abortion-rights candidate in 35 years! My Way News ...

Archbishop Slams Committed Abortion & Infanticide Supporter Obama
Hyscience — Denver archbishop Charles Chaput labeled infanticide supporter Barack Obama as the "most committed" abortion-rights candidate in 35 years! (HT - Gateway Pundit): My Way News reported: Denver Roman Catholic Archbishop Charles Chaput labeled Barack Obama the "most committed" abortion-rights candidate from a major party in 35 years while accusing a Catholic Obama ally and other Democratic-friendly Catholic groups of doing a "disservice to the church." Chaput, one of the nation's most politically outspoken Catholic ...

Justice Thomas: How to Interpret the Constitution
Southern Appeal — The Wall Street Journal published excerpts from a talk Justice Thomas delivered at the Manhattan Institute last week.  As usual, Thomas cuts right to the heart of the question, namely: how should we interpret the Constitution?  The whole thing is worth a read, but here is the key part: To assure the independence of federal judges, the framers provided us with life tenure and an irreducible salary — though inflation has found a way around the latter. This independence, in turn, was to assure our neutrality and impartiality, which are at the very core of judging — and being a judge. Yet, this independence can also insulate a judge from ...

Obama national lead shrinks to +4.8% (RCP), but things still look bleak
Southern Appeal — Very interesting . The key, of course, is the battleground-state polling . Here’s the breakdown right now: Florida (+3.2% Obama) Ohio (+2.8% Obama) Nevada (+4.2% Obama) North Carolina (+1.3% Obama) Missouri (+2.5% Obama) West Virginia (+2.4% McCain) Indiana (+3.8% McCain) Colorado (+6.0% Obama)  Georgia (+6.8% McCain) Virginia (+8.1% Obama) New Mexico (+8.4% Obama) Montanta (+5.6% McCain) Notice a pattern, folks? These are all states that Bush won in 2004. And that’s a lot of ground for McCain to make up in just 15 days. Is it possible for him to do it? Sure. Is it likely? I doubt it. Fwiw, my guess is that McCain will end up winning ...

Was the Louisiana Purchase constitutional?
Southern Appeal — I interrupt SA’s normal campaign-related blogging to ask what will seem like a completely arcane historical question: was the Louisiana Purchase constitutional?  After having read a quite a lot about the deal, I still remain somewhat unsure about the answer to that question.  Jefferson seemed to think it was unconstitutional, but went ahead with it when he thought the deal would fall through if he delayed too long in trying to push for a constitutional amendement. So, I put the question to you, the Southern Appeal readership.

“Mark Salter on the Press and John McCain”
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You stay classy, John Kerry
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Foreign affairs in an Obama Administration
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What does the selection of Joe Biden say about Barack Obama’s judgment?
Southern Appeal — I am just curious why those who claim that the selection of Governor Sarah Palin reflects poorly on the judgment of Senator McCain aren’t saying the same thing about Senator Barack Obama’s selection of Senator Joe Biden ...

“Sam Brownback: The Catholic Vote is Crucial”
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Sic ‘em Sarah
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The view from the edge of the cliff
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“The Interview”
Southern Appeal — October 22, 2008 Nobody Has Trackbacked Yet The trackback URL for this post: http://www.southernappeal.org/index.php/archives/4982/trackback One Rebel Yell to ““The Interview”” Mark Says: October 22nd, 2008 at 10:41 am ...

Dr. James Dobson interviews Governor Sarah Palin
Southern Appeal — October 22, 2008 Dr. James Dobson interviews Governor Sarah Palin Filed under: Palin By Feddie ( Email ) @ 11:05 am You can listen to the interview here . PermaLink | | Trackback/Pingback (0) Nobody Has Trackbacked Yet The trackback URL for this post: http://www.southernappeal.org/index.php/archives/4985/trackback Leave a Reply Name Mail (will not be published) Website XHTML: You can use these tags:

“AP presidential poll: All even in the homestretch”
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Feel like spending a little time in the 18th century?
Southern Appeal — October 22, 2008 Feel like spending a little time in the 18th century? Filed under: Conservatism , History By Michael ( Email ) @ 6:14 pm Earlier this month Gertrude Himmelfarb gave a lecture at AEI on Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France .  Audio and video are now available here . PermaLink | | Trackback/Pingback (0) Nobody Has Trackbacked Yet The trackback URL for this post: http://www.southernappeal.org/index.php/archives/4990/trackback Leave a Reply Name Mail (will not be published) Website XHTML: You can use these tags: ...

“Conservatives for Change”
Southern Appeal — October 22, 2008 “Conservatives for Change” Filed under: Barack Obama , Conservatism By Patrick Carver ( Email ) @ 7:05 pm Some very, very confused people .  Especially Mr. “Pro-Life”. PermaLink | | Trackback/Pingback (0) Nobody Has Trackbacked Yet The trackback URL for this post: http://www.southernappeal.org/index.php/archives/4992/trackback Leave a Reply Name Mail (will not be published) Website XHTML: You can use these tags:

Feddie in the ATL
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Justice Takes a Barack Seat
Southern Appeal — Two days ago I had published this column about why DoJ is not enforcing the HAVA voting control act in Ohio. It turns out that I UNDERestimated the DoJ bias in favor of Obama. See this new report from OpenSecrets. Wow. So much for the establishment media image of “career employees” as being somehow neutral, disinterested defenders of the public good.

DEMOCRAT OFFICIAL IN VIRGINIA THROWING OUT MILITARY BALLOTS
Southern Appeal — This story is why I hate having to use an absentee ballot when I am deployed. Fairfax general registrar Rokey Suleman said Thursday that he has had to reject some of the ballots because of a Virginia law passed in 2002. That law — then called Senate Bill 113, sponsored by then state Sen. Bill Bolling — requires that when an overseas citizen wants to request an absentee ballot and cast a vote with the same paperwork, it requires not only a witness signature but also the current address of the witness. The McCain campaign said there’s not even a space for the witness to list an address. Suleman agreed; he said the federal document was changed in ...

Hunter Baker in the ATL!
Southern Appeal — I’m inspired by Feddie’s post about his physical location.  I’ll be in Pine Mountain, GA speaking to the students of the Impact 360 program for three days Nov. 3-5.  It’s right next to Callaway Gardens.  The next two days, I’ll be visiting Atlanta.  If any of the readers would like a guy to come talk with them or their group of friends about the importance of Christian higher education while I’m there, I can probably find a way to do it.

“THE LAWYERS WHO MAY RUN AMERICA”
Southern Appeal — The title of a new horror movie?  Nope.  That’s the title on the cover of the November issue of the ABA Journal.  It reveals more about how the ABA understands American democracy that the editors, perhaps, intended.  At any rate, you can see their predictions online, here ...

“There is such a thing as a point of no return”
Southern Appeal — October 24, 2008 “There is such a thing as a point of no return” Filed under: 2008 By Michael ( Email ) @ 2:25 pm Thomas Sowell, to Peter Robinson in Forbes. PermaLink | | Trackback/Pingback (0) Nobody Has Trackbacked Yet The trackback URL for this post: http://www.southernappeal.org/index.php/archives/5007/trackback Leave a Reply Name Mail (will not be published) Website XHTML: You can use these tags:

Wes Anderson + John McCain = Awesome Parody
Southern Appeal — October 24, 2008 Wes Anderson + John McCain = Awesome Parody Filed under: 2008 By Hunter Baker ( Email ) @ 9:36 pm Just savor it, boys. YouTube Preview Image PermaLink | | Trackback/Pingback (0) Nobody Has Trackbacked Yet The trackback URL for this post: http://www.southernappeal.org/index.php/archives/5011/trackback Leave a Reply Name Mail (will not be published) Website XHTML: You can use these tags:

Best Moment of the GOP Convention
Southern Appeal — Hands down: [image]

ALABAMA MANHANDLES TENNESSEE 29-9
Southern Appeal — [image] 8-0 ROLL TIDE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Obama the radical
Southern Appeal — If this interview doesn't send chills down your spine, then I don't know what will.

Smiling through the apocalypse
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More Fun with Obama Audio
Southern Appeal — October 27, 2008 More Fun with Obama Audio Filed under: 2008 , Constitutional Law , Obama By Centinel ( Email ) @ 10:38 am Ladies and Gentleman, I give you the man who may soon be making Supreme Court nominations: YouTube Preview Image PermaLink | | Trackback/Pingback (0) Nobody Has Trackbacked Yet The trackback URL for this post: http://www.southernappeal.org/index.php/archives/5023/trackback Leave a Reply Name Mail (will not be published) Website XHTML: You can use these tags:

Colbert on Olbermann
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Thomas Sowell interviewed
Southern Appeal — On Uncommon Knowledge -- a new installment every day this week!  The overall topic is Sowell's distinction between the "constrained" and "unconstrained" views of human nature, especially as reflected in political activity.  Especially if you haven't read or heard Sowell on this topic before, you're in for a treat.

“Vacant Justice”
Southern Appeal — October 27, 2008 Nobody Has Trackbacked Yet The trackback URL for this post: http://www.southernappeal.org/index.php/archives/5030/trackback One Rebel Yell to ““Vacant Justice”” Dave Mueller Says: October 27th, 2008 at 12:59 pm ...

“The Europeaniazation of America”
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Obama 2001: Warren Court “not that radical,” failed to “break free” from the Constitution, etc.
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Laying the Smackdown
Southern Appeal — October 27, 2008 Laying the Smackdown Filed under: Barack Obama , Election 2008 , Media Matters , Politics By Patrick Carver ( Email ) @ 8:02 pm An apt description of Megyn Kelly does to Obama spokesman Bill Burton: YouTube Preview Image (h/t Newsbusters.org ) PermaLink | | Trackback/Pingback (0) Nobody Has Trackbacked Yet The trackback URL for this post: http://www.southernappeal.org/index.php/archives/5038/trackback Leave a Reply Name Mail (will not be published) Website XHTML: You can use these tags: ...

“Poll Shows Marshall in a Dogfight Again”
Southern Appeal — October 28, 2008 “Poll Shows Marshall in a Dogfight Again” Filed under: Election 2008 By Feddie ( Email ) @ 7:47 am Rick Goddard is giving Jim Marshall all he can handle here in the 8th Congressional District .  I am, of course, supporting Rick Goddard. That having been said, if you had to choose a democrat to represent you in Congress, you couldn’t do much better than Jim Marshall . PermaLink | | Trackback/Pingback (0) Nobody Has Trackbacked Yet The trackback URL for this post: http://www.southernappeal.org/index.php/archives/5042/trackback Leave a Reply Name Mail (will not be published) ...

Obama’s Presidential Internship
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“The Seven Reasons McCain-Palin Are a Lock to Win”
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The Culture of Death Marches On
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Jeff Culbreath on being angry
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ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!
Southern Appeal — [image] Liberal Democrats won’t understand either the truth or humor in the above picture. Unfortunately, many Americans will after Obama, Pelosi, and Reid begin running the country into the ground. Hat tip to the Corner.

THE WORLD TURNS
Southern Appeal — [image] Another fun motivational poster concerning the Obamessiah’s most recent supporter. Hat tip to Blackfive.

My return to Biola University: October 30, 2008
Southern Appeal — It has been several years since I have given a talk at Biola Universit y in La Mirada, California. It is an institution that has a number of my friends on the faculty including Craig Hazen , John Mark Reynolds , J. P. Moreland , and Scott B. Rae . So I am very much looking forward to this Thursday, when I return to Biola as a speaker in its Distinguished Speaker Lecture Series for Christianity and Culture . Scheduled for October 30 at 6 pm in Biola’s Calvary Chapel , I will be delivering a lecture on the topic of abortion and American politics. After the lecture I’ll be meeting for an informal Q ...

THE OTHER SIDE OF CHANGE
Southern Appeal — [image] In keeping with my motivational poster theme, I thought I would offerer another perspective on what change can mean, especially the change offered by the Dali Bama. See the whole line at Despair Inc .

Polls Narrowing
Southern Appeal — There are some good signs this morning on the polling front. The gap between Obama and McCain in the Gallup tracking poll (traditional*) has narrowed to two points. Reportedly, this was mirrored in the Rasmussen tracking poll, which now shows only a three point gap. Make no mistake; McCain is still behind. However, these results indicate that he’s well within striking distance even this late in the game. * I disregard the “expanded” Gallup tracking poll, which gives an edge to Obama, because it fails to consider past voting behavior. It almost seems designed to inflate Obama’s numbers.

Whelan Nails It
Southern Appeal — October 29, 2008 Whelan Nails It Filed under: 2008 By Quin Hillyer ( Email ) @ 8:30 am At NRO today, Ed Whelan does a brilliant job explaining what’s at stake for the courts in this election. Do read it. PermaLink | | Trackback/Pingback (0) Nobody Has Trackbacked Yet The trackback URL for this post: http://www.southernappeal.org/index.php/archives/5069/trackback Leave a Reply Name Mail (will not be published) Website XHTML: You can use these tags:

Obama and the Catholic Vote: read that memo that should be in every church bulletin this Sunday
Southern Appeal — Just received this. Before voting next Tuesday, Catholics should take this very seriously: Catholics Urged to Consider Obama Record Weekend Before Election Urgent Memo Released to Catholics Nationwide CHICAGO – CatholicVote.com has released an urgent national memo addressed to all American Catholics urging them to consider the record of Sen. Barack Obama as they head toward the final weekend before the Election Day. The memo outlines a series of statements and facts taken from Obama’s public record dealing with the issues of life and marriage. This Sunday thousands of Catholic parishes across the country are expected to address the ...

“Democrats Carrying Anti-Abortion Banner Put More Congressional Races in Play”
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OBAMA SPEECH WRITER LEAVES CAMPAIGN AND WILL VOTE FOR MCCAIN
Southern Appeal — This woman is exceptionally brave. When one considers how the Obama Campaign, as well as the mainstream media, has treated apostates from the church of the Obamessiah one has to appreciate the courage this act of honesty represents. I think she hits the nail on the head with this: I can no longer justify what this party has done and can’t dismiss the treatment of women and working people as just part of the new kind of politics. It’s wrong and someone has to say that. And also say that the Democratic Party’s talking points—that Senator John McCain is just four more years of the same and that he’s President Bush—are now just hooker lines that ...