Does LJ not support Flash? Because I spent 10 minutes trying to post a video and it absolutely will not embed. Oh well.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/21/sandra-fluke-politicians-should-be-required-to-pass-pro-woman-litmus-test-to-get-elected/

Okay, what are the things that bother me most about this story ( Read more... )

As soon as I heard the news, I knew what was going to happen and suspected SBK didn't know. And I was right on both counts. A major shitstorm erupted, and SBK backpeddled in horrified surprise. Although how they could be surprised, I have no idea.

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Really wonderful video. Alexander Tsiaras was part of a team that was tasked with helping NASA with virtual surgery. He helped write code for the program that made a scan of the entire body. They used all the newest scanning technology and found a lot of fascinating discoveries about the body. The video he shows is something they came up with ( Read more... )

An interesting news story about a woman who stepped down as director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas for the dual reason of recently watching an ultrasound of an abortion and the instruction from her superiors to start aggressively marketing abortions instead of family planning because of the recent downturn in the economy.

If 10,000 anti-war protestors gather at the Mall in DC, you get news coverage from around the world.  If 300,000 prolife marchers show up on the Mall, you get no major media reporting.  If a tree falls in the forest, but there's no media to cover it, does it make a sound?

We can all breathe a sigh of relief now.  Obama has reversed the ban on federal funding of abortions outside the U.S. by NGOs.  I think this is exactly the right way to deal with the poverty in the third world.  If we could only kill off all the children, think of the money we could save in foreign aid.

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Liberal and conservative can be misleading labels. I know many people who are liberal and conservative at the same time. Or at least hold to some ideas that are often held by liberals and other ideas that are often held by conservatives ( Read more... )

There were three ballot measures to ban gay marriage yesterday in Florida, Arizona and California. They were all passed ( Read more... )