Randall Terry, Operation Rescue: George Tiller was a mass-murderer. We grieve for him that he did not have time to properly prepare his soul to face God. I am more concerned that the Obama Administration will use Tiller’s killing to intimidate pro-lifers into surrendering our most effective rhetoric and actions.   Father Frank Pavone, Priests for Life: [...]

In the highly charged debate over abortion, nothing so stirs the moral ambiguities as the question of late abortion. As a pregnancy progresses closer and closer to viability–the point at which a fetus could survive outside the womb, generally thought to be around 24 weeks–even those who consider themselves pro-choice begin to have their qualms. [...]

Salon’s Mark Benjamin gets to Taguba, knocking back the Daily Telegraph report: Retired Army Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba denied reports that he has seen the prisoner-abuse photos that President Obama is fighting to keep secret, in an exclusive interview with Salon Friday night. Read it here.

Perhaps the roll out of Sonia Sotomayor could have gone better for Barack Obama. She could have announced a cure for cancer in her first public address, for instance, or a recently discovered stockpile of cash that will settle out the national debt. Kim Jong Il might have called from North Korea to say that [...]

Think Progress gives us this gem from G. Gordon Liddy’s radio show, a moment where the host contemplates the prospect of a Justice Sotomayor: LIDDY: Let’s hope that the key conferences aren’t when she’s menstruating or something, or just before she’s going to menstruate. That would really be bad. Lord knows what we would get [...]

What is it about Iraq that seems to trigger everyone’s Twitter impulse? First, Pete Hoekstra tweets what was supposed to be a top-secret congressional trip to Baghdad. Now we find out more about Stephen Colbert’s trip to an ostensibly undisclosed location in the Persian Gulf. And how did we learn? Anyway, this will be one [...]

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Newt Gingrich grabbed cable news chatter all week after Twittering that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor was a “Latina woman racist.” The ensuing controversy has not moderated his opposition. Today, Renewing American Leadership, a 501(c)3 nonprofit that he heads, sent out an email to supporters calling on them to both “send blast faxes” to U.S. [...]

Paul Slansky is at it again, with his index of this week’s news. And, once again, he has missed some important developments such as: Rico, Puerto: •Part of the United States, of which both NPR and the Washington Post editorial page seemed to have been unaware. How about it, Swampland commenters? Anthing else that deserves [...]