My husband and I saw the film 2016: Obama’s America last night.

2016 is based on Dinesh D’Souza’s 2010 best-selling book, The Roots of Obama’s Rage. The movie was advertised on this site for several weeks.

Both the book and movie attempt to make sense of Obama’s otherwise inexplicable decisions as president by tying them to his anti-colonialist roots and subsequent belief system. Both of Obama’s parents were anti-colonialists, as was his adolescent mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, and several of his professors and adult peers, particularly Bill Ayers and Reverend Jeremiah Wright.

2016 is a box office hit. As of this weekend 2016 had grossed $18.2 million, making it the highest grossing conservative documentary of all time. 2016 still has a ways to go to compete with its liberal competitor, Fahrenheit 9/11, which grossed $119.2 million.

We found 2016 quite compelling. If nothing else, Obama’s childhood and adult ideological influences would shock American sensibilities.

But I left the movie with a question: How does Obama’s anti-colonial beliefs play into his radical pro-abortion beliefs?

by LauraLoo This two-year-old yet timely video serves as a reminder of where current GOP VP nominee Paul Ryan stood on the abortion issue in the health care debate, as opposed to DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8bC0NGx7f4[/youtube] Interesting that both cited “Catholic authorities” agreeing with their individual positions. [HT: carder & Fr. Z]

I don’t recall ever posting a pro-life work of fiction, but I received a thought-provoking piece from Minnesota pro-lifer William S. Wentink I thought you might enjoy reading on your extra leisure day off. Wentink describes himself as a “retired IBMer and managing partner of a website development company.” I’m including the first couple paragraphs […]

Forgive me for not knowing the source of that artwork. Somebody “shared” it on Facebook with Ali Akbar, and it was funny: The contrast between GOP congressional candidate Mia Love and Sandra Fluke is rather illuminating, yes? ~ Robert Stacy McCain displaying a recent internet photoshop of Republican congressional candidate from Utah, Mia Love, and […]

/2012/09/02/103235″>Townhall.com…

by Jerry Holbert at Townhall.com…

by Chip Bok at Townhall.com…

by Glenn McCoy at Townhall.com…

Then whoever calls on the name of the LORD will be saved. Those who escape will be on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem. Among the survivors will be those whom the LORD calls, as the LORD has promised. ~ Joel 2:32, God’s Word translation [Photo of abortion survivor via Abolitionist Society of Oklahoma]

Click to enlarge…

On August 31 artist Jon McNaughton debuted an “interactive painting he has created with 60 symbols that detail the ‘Obamanation’ of the Barack Obama Presidency,” according to Fox News.

One of the most fascinating aspects of the painting is you can scroll over it on McNaughton’s website for detailed explanations of all the symbols. Three depict Obama pushing his anti-life agenda. Click to enlarge…

Included in the speaker’s list for the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte are Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards, NARAL Pro-Choice America’s Nancy Keenan, and Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University Law student who has become the new face of the war on birth control.

Putting reproductive rights luminaries front and center at the convention could be seen by many activists as a signal that this year politicians will be forced to be honest about their true intentions when it comes to a woman’s right to control her reproductive choices.