How much is a trillion dollars? – Updated

If you haven’t seen it already, the UK Sun does a great job of breaking down how much actual money is a “trillion” dollars: 72 years to print a trillion dollars The US Bureau Of Engraving And Printing produces 38million notes a day, so printing one trillion new notes from scratch and working seven days [...]

DHS Report on Right-Wing Extremists Makes Stars & Stripes

There’s a front-page report on the DHS report highlighting the dangers of “right-wing extremists” in today’s Stars & Stripes,  yet strangely I can find nothing about it on their web site.  I wonder if that was an editorial decision to bury the story?  You can’t unprint newspapers, but you can easily delete a link. There was [...]

Roe V Wade – True or False

If the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, then abortions would be illegal. True or False? UPDATE: Too good not to post.  From one of those “Might Be Related” links below, comes this cogent, erudite, well-reasoned defense of Roe V. Wade: Roe v Wade is a Surpreme Court of US case on abortion rights. Roe [...]

Voter Intent = Thought Voting?

In the previous post, commenter John Emerson took me to task for impugning the integrity of the people of Minnesota, specifically the voting review board involved in the recount process between Franken and Coleman. However, the crux of my post was not so much that the people of Minnesota were a bunch of neanderthals, but [...]

Explaining abortion to an 11 year old

So, we’re all sitting around the dinner table, having a variety of discussions as we often do, and the Medium Sized child throws this one out on the table and lets it flop around for a second: “Dad, what’s ‘abortion?’” GULP! Cue slightly stunned and discomfited pause the Imperial Wife and myself. Uh…… “Hon, that’s not [...]

Saddleback and Obama

A day late and a dollar short, but that’s my usual M.O. anyway. I didn’t get to watch all of the interview, debate, whatever it was with Rick Warren and the two presumptive presidential nominees, but I did get to see enough of both segments to get a representative taste of it all. What I [...]

The Thinks That I Think

I think that:  Enforcing immigration laws isn’t racist. Abortion does not “liberate” women. If you want to be treated equally, don’t claim special privilege because you’re a minority. I’d be interested to see what percentage of gun-related crimes are committed with a legally-purchased gun, by the owner of said gun?  I’m sure it’s out there [...]

Thoughts on Politics

I must admit to sharing what seems to be a fairly sweeping sense of dismay amongst the political traditionalists after Fred Thompson pulled the plug on his campaign.  He seemed to be the only candidate who held actual traditional, constitutionalist views about government.  With him gone, we seemed to be faced with various flavors of socialism, and [...]

Quantum Physics and Abortion

An interesting comment thread over at Protein Wisdom.  The subject? The always popular…abortion!  In this instance, the case of a boyfriend who slipped his pregnant girlfriend of rufie of RU-486 and caused her to miscarry.  He now potentially faces up to 100 years in prison for “attempted homicide of an unborn child.” What caught my eye in [...]