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Today marks the 55th anniversary of an amphibious assault by Gen. Douglas MacArthur on Korea that turned the tide during the Korean War. In South Korea, citizens paraded past a statue of MacArthur to defend it, in contrast to last...

1.) Stage a "protest." 2.) Willfully ignore the paperwork and permits such a thing requires. 3.) Call the cops fascists and behave like stinking lunatics when they show up to shut you down. 4.) Soak in the fluffy, puffy, glorious...

Two sides prepare for abortion fight

As was expected, the recently passed SD law regulating abortion has generated legal challenges and may well end up before the SCOTUS. From the sound of this, it sounds like both sides are pulling out all the stops.

Professionals with impressive credentials and experience in medicine and ethics are being lined up on both sides of a court case that will decide if doctors in South Dakota must tell women that abortions end lives.

In spite of having a sort of neo-libertarian orientation, the Chief, as a biologist, cannot see the logic in legalized pre-natal infanticide, absent a threat to the life of the mother - oh, yeah - also in cases of rape and incest. In THOSE cases, the scum who committed the crimes should not have the right to have their genes passed on as the result of these brutally coercive acts. (To quote SciFi writer Larry Niven: "Just think of it as evolution in action.")

Another aspect of the abortion debate sometimes results in rather indiscriminate use of the concept of "pro-life" as being the touchstone for determining ultimate morality. This citation takes the commandment which in English reads "Thou shalt not kill" as a moral absolute.

The Chief notes the original Hebrew would be closer to "Thou shalt not murder" - or take INNOCENT life. What could be more innocent than an unborn infant. Likewise, what innocence is left in an individual who HAS shed innocent blood by murder, or committed that ultimate social betrayal known as treason. In those cases, hang 'em high...but save the babies!

Regular readers of this space will note that I mentioned last week, after returning from my Labor Day weekend, that I was feeling a bit under the weather. The week passed with little improvement, and over the weekend I really...

Via Fark, here's Harriet the tortoise: Certainly the oldest inhabitant in The Crocodile Hunter's Australia Zoo on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, and surely the oldest inhabitant on the Australian continent, Harriet is a giant Galapagos land tortoise, collected by Charles Darwin...

The weekend featured two key elections: Germany and Afghanistan. Both involved millions of people confronting new worlds. Of the two, Germany was clearly the more backward. The Germans faced a choice between a demonstrably failed policy and a lukewarm prospect...

Cindy Sheehan decided to take some time out of her busy schedule to accuse Bill Clinton -- the only Democrat able to actually win anything in recent memory, and father of all that "peace and prosperity" we're always hearing about,...

Tony Blair Pulls the Plug on Kyoto at Clinton Summit

Virtually unreported from the Clinton Global Iniative meeting in New York, was Tony Blair virtually driving the final nails into the coffin of the (at best) ill-advised Kyoto Accord. Jim Pinkerton at Tech Central Station steps in where the MSM fears to tread.

Onstage with former president Bill Clinton at a midtown Manhattan hotel ballroom, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said he was going to speak with "brutal honesty" about Kyoto and global warming, and he did. And Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had some blunt talk, too. Blair, a longtime supporter of the Kyoto treaty, further prefaced his remarks by noting, "My thinking has changed in the past three or four years." So what does he think now? "No country," he declared, "is going to cut its growth." That is, no country is going to allow the Kyoto treaty, or any other such global-warming treaty, to crimp -- some say cripple -- its economy.

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