Abortionist tried drowning baby born alive
by Sarah Terzo
Live Action News,
May 7, 2013.
Abortion provider Dr Raymond Showery was accused and eventually convicted of killing a five-pound baby girl who survived an abortion at his clinic Southside Medical Center in El Paso. Clinic workers later testified that they saw the infant girl breathing and moving, curling up in the doctor’s hand. According to witnesses, Dr Showery dropped her into a bucket of water. The witnesses saw bubbles rising to the surface of the water as the baby began drowning.

Feminism driving holocaust of abortion
by Gerald Warner
Scotland on Sunday,
May 19, 2013.
In what other matter of life and death would the term “choice” be used when the individual whose life is at stake has no choice whatsoever? “A woman’s right to control her own body” is self-serving humbug: it is not her body that is shredded and incinerated but someone else’s.

Remembering Herb Romerstein: Death of a Cold Warrior
by Paul Kengor
American Spectator,
May 10, 2013.
Herbert Romerstein was the epitome of responsible, informed anti-communism. He was careful about drawing the necessary lines of distinction between a liberal, a liberal anti-communist, a genuine progressive, a closet communist masquerading as a “progressive”, etc. He never wanted to falsely accuse anyone. I doubt his detractors on the left will pause to credit him for such prudence.

How China views Australia’s defence white paper
by John Garnaut
Sydney Morning Herald,
May 10, 2013.
Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, still recited by Chinese generals, is filled with every conceivable mind game to convince the enemy to capitulate without firing a shot. And that’s why Chinese strategists are so chuffed with what they believe they have achieved with the new Australian defence white paper. The Gillard white paper talks the language of benign friendship and, simultaneously, reflects a retreat in the face of formidable Chinese power. She neatly ticks both of Sun Tzu’s boxes.

German euro founder calls for ‘catastrophic’ currency to be broken up
by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard,
The Telegraph (UK),
May 5, 2013.
Oskar Lafontaine, the German finance minister who launched the euro, has called for a break-up of the single currency to let southern Europe recover, warning that the current course is “leading to disaster”. “The economic situation is worsening from month to month, and unemployment has reached a level that puts democratic structures ever more in doubt,” he said.

The French sour on Hollande
by David Pryce Jones,
David Calling blog,
May 6, 2013.
In the space of a year, François Hollande has become the most unpopular president ever recorded; three quarters of those polled want him out. Recession has led to 3.2 million unemployed, another record number. Taxes have also never been higher; the better-off have fled abroad, and with them 150,000 young people. It’s as though the voters have forgotten that socialism is the tried and tested instrument to impoverish any country unwise enough to adopt it.

What really happened to boys?
by Bruce Deitrick Price
American Thinker,
April 28, 2013.
Every day, every week, every month, the ordinary boy stares at a sign flashing in the air: ACCESS DENIED. Whatever it is he is supposed to do, he can’t do it. He wants to — he really, really wants to. What else does a boy have but cockiness and confidence? Boys rule! Or they once did. But their sense of being master of any situation is no match for the dark genius of our Education Establishment.

How to respond to being called ‘judgmental’
by Joan Richardson
American Thinker,
April 28, 2013.
We’ve all heard it, right? This is the accusation slung at almost anyone in this post-modern culture who dares to look askance at problem behaviour. One of the marks of humanity is the ability to make these distinctions based on higher order thinking. So, don’t apologise for being judgmental. Own it. Take pride in being a thinking human.

School pupils should be taught ‘not all porn is bad’, advise British experts
by Melanie Hall
The Telegraph (UK),
April 25, 2013.
Teachers should be aware that “not all pornography is bad” when taking sex education classes, according to guidance made available to schools. A publication released by a group of health and children’s charities, including the NSPCC and Barnardo’s, says that teachers should bear in mind that pornography is “hugely diverse”.
It suggests using a website called TheSite.org, an advice forum for young people, which tells teenagers that “porn can be great” and aims to tackle a series of “myths” about the subject.

Father loses custody fight for child he never knew he had
by Martin Evans
The Telegraph (UK),
April 25, 2013.
A “cruelly deceived” British father whose son was put up for adoption without him even knowing of his existence has had his hopes of gaining custody dashed following a court ruling. The man, whose ex-partner lied about the paternity of the child, only discovered he had a son when his sister spotted a family resemblance when he was aged four and a DNA test was ordered.