While IL state senator, Barack Obama voted “present” on a partial birth abortion ban, parental notification, and a package of 3 Born Alive Infant Protection bills, for which political heat has since forever risen, thank goodness. Yesterday the

A new says Huckabee’s rise is due to GOP weakness. I wouldn’t be sure how that translates had I not read Robert Novak’s column last week, which I’ll excerpt next….

HT: reader Sara; cartoon credit: Chuck Asay,

I was on Iowa Right to Life to encourage it to reject National Right to Life’s endorsement of Fred Thompson and instead endorse Huckabee. I found that tidbit interesting and called IRTL this afternoon to find out if it was making the switch. I spoke with Kim Lehman, IRTL president. She said after they started […]

At least four points can be drawn from this

While Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee “remains a distant fifth in New Hampshire, behind [Mitt] Romney, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Ron Paul [and]… fifth in national polls,” according to the ABC/Washington Post poll released November 21, conducted November 14-18: Are we beginning to coalesce?

That Fred Thompson claims to be pro-life but would leave the abortion decision to individual states really angers me. This is actually a pro-abortion position, simply “pro-choice” in a different arena. Professor Hadley Arkes, crafter of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, has written an article for the December issue of

Clearly the National Right to Life Committee attempted to tutor Fred Thompson between his November 4 interview on Meet the Press and November 18 interview on This Week with George Stephanopoulos. But NRLC failed. On three major pro-life issues, Thompson continued to frankly stink. And on one he dug his hole deeper….