While relaxing and gearing up for the week this afternoon, here’s a short, entertaining video to watch of Andrew Breitbart speaking at CPAC Friday.
Breitbart makes an interesting comment at about 5:30 into his jabfest of the Left: “I’ve got videos… This election we’re going to vet him from his college days…. The videos are going to come out….” Wow, perhaps a little truth about Obama’s radical nature, finally…
I’m saddened by the news that Whitney Houston passed away yesterday. Here is the New York Times obituary. TMZ is reporting the 48-yr-old drowned in her hotel bathtub. More on her last days here. And yet the party went on. Such a tragedy, all the way around.
Whitney Houston was raised a Christian. We pray she rests in peace.
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[Photo via NYT]
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[W]e really didn’t think we’d get the opportunity to see Blue Ivy precious face for a long time….
Well, today is our lucky day.
The little lady – who has already made music history, is in the process of having a her name trademarked and was creatively honored and represented by her mother through blue nail polish – finally has a face….
The pro-abortion side of this weekend’s question is above.
But a few days ago I spoke to Craig Robbins, the director of Paul’s Pantry, and got the other side of the story.
Paul’s Pantry is a a ministry of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, a lay Catholic organization. It is the largest free food pantry in Wisconsin, located in Green Bay. (Click all photos to enlarge.)
Some of you may have noticed my site has been running incredibly slow and even crashed several times the last couple weeks.
This was in large part due to the increasing volume of traffic, for which I am grateful! Interest in the Komen/Planned Parenthood battle was quite high, and then we moved right into the contraceptive mandate battle.
UPDATE 2/11, 8:35a: Apparently C-SPAN experienced a systemwide problem. The video is working again. Grab a cup of coffee and start your weekend out on an uplifting note by watching Metaxas’s speech.
UPDATE 2/10, 6:50p: The C-SPAN video is down. I don’t know if it was removed on purpose or if there’s a technical problem. But you can hear the audio here.
2/10, 5:05p: It’s Friday afternoon. You don’t want to work any more. Do yourself a favor. End your week by watching this speech. It’s a soaring inspiration to pro-lifers, with the bonus that President Obama was forced to hear it.
Backdrop, from National Review (These are just excerpts. Read the entire piece before viewing the speech.):
Guest post by Joel Brind, Ph.D.
Many pro-lifers don’t trust Rick Santorum because of his 2004 support of Arlen Specter for U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania in the 2004 primary election.
On its face, it appears that Rick wandered off the reservation and put party before life by endorsing pro-abortion Specter against pro-life Pat Toomey.
Specter beat Toomey by only 1%, and many pro-lifers blame Santorum, a fact to some extent responsible for the 18-point shellacking Santorum got in the 2008 general election for his Senate re-election. (The magnitude of that defeat is often cited as the main reason why it has taken so long for Santorum to gain traction in the current Presidential primary race.)
When Santorum is asked about this, he steadfastly maintains that he came down in 2004 – and always has – on the side of life, and that his decision was no mistake. Can this be so? Let’s take a detailed look at what happened.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
