We're all terrorists now

Jack Hunter commenting on the "Tea Party" and the state of conservatism:

http://www.takimag.com/site/article/tea_party_terrorists/#When:13:49:37Z

"rightwing extremist"

Washington Times:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/14/federal-agency-warns-of-radicals-on-right/

Catholic News:
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=15670

"According to a Homeland Security Report distributed to law enforcement organizations, abortion opponents are as great a threat to national security in the immediate future as white supremacists."

The government says that opposing abortion makes you a "rightwing extremist." Calling one an extremist is the 1st step to outlawing ideas and groups. How far will this go?

The killing machine

Planned Parenthood Matters
The organization has a dark history and a disturbing present.
By Kathryn Jean Lopez

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Someone please tell me why my tax dollars are paying for this?

Taki's Magazine

I recently stumbled upon this website http://www.takimag.com/ ("Taki's Magazine"), an "online magazine for independent conservatives" a lot of interesting articles with a bit of humor.

Human Rights? They aren't what they used to be.

Human Rights at 60
They aren't what they used to be.

As the UN declaration on Human Rights turns 60 years old, Joseph Loconte considers where what has become of the Rights. Increasingly, such social perversions as abortion are being promoted as "rights." Joseph cuts to the source of the problem:

How did we arrive at this dismal state of affairs? The problem is not simply that human rights have become grossly politicized. The problem is that rights have been profoundly secularized--and severed from their deepest moral foundation, the concept of man as the imago Dei, the image of God.

Read the whole article here.