Defiance of Tyranny

Posted 2:16 AM by Steve
After reading Jonah Goldberg's latest on NRO.com, I had to paraphrase his excellent point about the hypocrisy of the left:

Bill Bennett is being attacked from all sides by liberals for his recent comments. The important thing is to listen to how they are attacking him.

When someone suggested Social Security would be in a better financial position if so many taxpayers hadn't been aborted since "Roe v. Wade", Bennett dismissed the idea, disagreeing with a utilitarian argument made about an ostensibly moral issue.

Bennett cited the book "Freakonomics" by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt, which argues, among other things, that the increase in abortions since Roe vs. Wade has contributed considerably to the drop in the crime rate.

Then, using the crime rate among blacks in America as an example, Bennett made the statement that using such utilitarian means for debating the issue, a "pro-choicer" could argue that:

" if you wanted to reduce crime, you could — if that were your sole purpose — you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down."

He went on to say that such thinking is:

" impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible."

Well, the liberals went NUTS! Look at their responses:

"The point he was trying to make, I guess, he said, you know, if you were to go out there and kill the black babies, the crime would go down."

Former DNC chair Terry McAuliffe

Ted Kennedy and others called him a "racist". Radio host Ed Schultz said: Bennett is "out there advocating the murder of all black babies."

My question to you, dear reader, is this:

If abortion isn't killing a baby....how could Bennett's comments possibly be construed to be equivalent to "killing black babies."?

And if the fetus isn't human, how could it possibly have a human trait such as RACE?

Don't you love it when liberals undermine their own arguments?

Posted 1:18 AM by Steve
Spy in the White House?

Check out this ABCnews.com story:

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=1187030&page=1

Don't you love how Richard Clarke, the "benedict arnold" of the 2000's, slanders the Bush administration and then becomes an ABC News Consultant?

Is it cynical of me to believe one had to do with the other?

Clarke says he knows of no other time when a spy was in the White House.

Hmmmmm...I wonder if he is including FDR's administration...