The final deadline for Missouri Republican U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin to drop from the race came and went on September 25, and he did not.

The GOP establishment that had stood alongside Democrats and feminists to castigate Akin for his August 19 “legitimate rape” misstep must now eat crow. The polls and grasp of the U.S. Senate are too close.

by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli We welcome your suggestions for additions to our Top Blogs (see tab on right side of home page)! Email Susie@jillstanek.com. Vital Signs links to a Politico article discussing how the Department of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Internal Revenue Service will […]

On February 28 CNN’s Wolf Blitzer tried to play gotcha with Newt Gingrich regarding Gingrich’s statement during a recent Republican debate that the mainstream media had failed to scrutinize presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008 regarding his opposition as state senator to the Illinois Born Alive Infant Protection Act. Blitzer, attempting to prove that at […]

2/24, 6:40a: Conservatives are ripping Politico’s Alexander Burns for incorrectly identifying the object of Newt Gingrich’s criticism as Barack Obama’s opposition to a partial birth abortion ban rather than the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. Read this Newsbusters piece and this Red State piece. I’m also heartened by the volume of commenters who called Burns […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat Lawyer Gloria Allred is apparently contacting television stations which are planning on airing Randall Terry’s Super Bowl ads and asking them for time to appear on the stations and react to the ad and “express the pro-choice right to safe and legal abortion position.” I don’t know if […]

I would like to defund Planned Parenthood…. I want to take all of that money and put it directly into adoption services to give young women the choice of life, not the culture of death. ~ GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich, commenting at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s presidential forum in South Carolina, as quoted […]

UPDATE, 7:52p: Personhood USA Life-stream choppy. CNN has great live-streaming here. UPDATE, 7:15p: @thomas_hall tweets that over 40 media outlets are present… UPDATE, 7:03p: The live-stream can be enlarged to full screen, if you didn’t notice. Sound isn’t great. I can hear better with earbuds. Tweet at hashtag #ProLifeForum.

UPDATE, 11:55a: Well, that was quick. Despite her pre-Caucus protests, Michele Bachmann has suspended her campaign in the wake of her poor showing in Iowa yesterday. I’m posting a new poll with her name omitted. Congrats to the 20 of you who got it right on this short-lived poll! 9:34a: The Iowa Caucus results are […]