by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat The Philadelphia City Paper’s cover story for yesterday’s edition was on how abortionist Steve Brigham is still in business, despite losing his license in numerous states and having employees complain to the state about his practices: 15 clinics were issued “notices of deficiencies,” mostly regarding relatively minor infractions. […]

Positive news from a Politico article today entitled, “Democrats pessimistic about avoiding shutdown”: The White House is intensifying negotiations with House Republicans… but congressional Democrats increasingly fear that it may be too little, too late to avert a government shutdown…. By late Monday, the process was basically back on track, and both sides were feeling […]

“We’re getting to ask the real question – does abortion take the life of a child?… If it does, then those of us sitting here in the chambers of freedom live in the midst of the greatest human genocide in the history of humanity,” [Congressman Trent] Franks [R-AZ, pictured right] said in his opening statement. […]

UPDATE, 9:50a: Word from a congressional source is the continuing resolution (2011 budget for remaining 7 months) will not be released until tomorrow. At this point the measure to cut Title X funding altogether is just a strong rumor. Need to see it in writing. 9:45a: We already knew about Congressman Mike Pence’s bill, the […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat CNN has a story of another woman who obtained an abortion from Kermit Gosnell. LaToya Ransome had to have open heart surgery a month after her abortion and now she suspects she got an infection from Gosnell’s clinic. David Kahane writes satirically in the National Review on abortionist […]

Recall that last week Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid all but abandoned efforts to pass a bloated federal budget for Fiscal Year 2011, called the Omnibus Appropriations bill. In that bill were increased financial perks for pro-abort groups: $327 million allocated for the Title X Family Planning Program, which provides funding to groups like Planned […]

I wrote in my WorldNetDaily.com column last week that House GOP leadership was considering excluding social issues from its 2010 agenda to focus entirely on fiscal issues. Over the weekend several conservative Republican leaders, most importantly Mike Pence, called on us to let the House powers that be know the pro-life and marriage issues were […]

UPDATE 9/20, 3:05a: From the Washington Post, September 18: [Christine] O’Donnell pushed back against the notion that at a time when voters are focused on the economy, social issues should take a back seat. And a few politicians with longer résumés and national profiles expressed their own righteous indignation. [Sen. Rick] Santorum told the crowd […]