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Today's News & Views
January 6, 2009
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An Inaugural Address for Obama
Ordinarily the day I am at the
printer's, watching the latest edition of
National Right to Life News roll off the press,
TN&V is an article that appears in that issue.
Today, inspired by a note in the online
publication, "Slate," I thought I'd ask our
devoted readers to do something similar to what
the editors at Slate propose for their audience.
They have both an interesting
idea and technology. The goal, in a
collaborative way, is to have its readers "write
this year's inaugural address." Not really, of
course. Tongue in cheek they conclude that
perhaps President-elect Barack Obama "will
decide to borrow from your speech" when the 44th
President delivers his January 20 inaugural
address.
Slate will use something call
MixedInk to cull and combine and credit. The
crux is that there is a kind of cross-pollution
of ideas at the end of which individual writers
crank out a thoroughly pre-vetted "speech."
Slate will publish the speech with the highest
rating.
Well, we're not quite to that
point, technologically. But, I very much would
like for Today's News & Views readers to compose
a "speech" for the most pro-abortion President
ever and send it along to me.
It could combine any host of
variables. For example, the address might
include a sly admission that, "whoops, did I
pretend to be searching for 'common ground'?";
an explanation of why he supposedly wants to
"reduce the number of abortions" but opposes the
Hyde Amendment and funding for crisis pregnancy
centers which have saved millions of babies; an
elaboration of why his hero, President Lincoln,
freed the slaves but Obama is determined to
continue treating unborn babies as their
mother's property; or an explication of why the
"Audacity of Hope" is fine for the planned and
the perfect but not for babies (who did not will
themselves into existence) who are
"inconvenient"?
I have learned that my readers
are dazzlingly articulate and brim-full of
insights. Send your "speech" along, and I will
extract parts of the most thoughtfully written.
The address is
daveandrusko@gmail.com.
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ARCHIVES
January 2009
An Inaugural Address for Obama -- January
6, 2009
Deception Elevated to an Art Form --
January 5, 2009
Triathlete Races in
Honor of Special Kids -- January 2, 2009
December 2008
Happy
New Year -- December 31, 2008
"A Truly Compassionate Society is One that Recognizes
the Rights of All Women,
Including Those Yet to be Born" -- December 30, 2008
Pro-Lifers Are Primed and Ready -- December
29, 2008
Do You See What I See? -- December 24, 2008
"There Was a Life That Had to Be Cared For"
-- December 23, 2008
The Most Lied-About Judicial Decision in our History
-- December 22, 2008
Conscience Protection Rule Published; Paul Weyrich,
R.I.P. -- December 19, 2008
Series on Discovery of iPS Cells Fascinating
-- December 18, 2008
Fool Me Once… -- December 17, 2008
"Aborting Conscience"
-- December 16, 2008
Abortion Establishment Presents Obama With Marching
Orders -- December 15, 2008
Abortion Establishment Presents Obama With Marching
Orders -- December 12, 2008
Assisted Suicide Aired on Television --
December 11, 2008
Decoding the 2008 Presidential Election --
December 10, 2008
Defeating Obama's
Abortion Agenda -- December 9, 2008
Two Pro-Life Wins in Louisiana Over the Weekend
-- December 8, 2008
Conduct of Planned Parenthood Employees Draws Scrutiny
-- December 5, 2008
Thank You for Your Great Response and the Latest On
Planned Parenthood -- December 4, 2008
Pro-Life Senator Saxby Chambliss Wins in Georgia
-- December 3, 2008
PPFA Races Toward Rock Bottom: the "Holiday Season
Gift" of Death -- December 2, 2008
Two More Studies Provide More Evidence Abortion Hurts
Women -- December 1, 2008
November 2008
Our Unshakeable Commitment -- November 27,
2008
The Obama Team Continues to Take Shape --
November 26, 2008
A Medical Student's Struggle With "A Hard Choice"
-- November 25, 2008
Readers Answer the Question What Do We Say to a Woman
Who Has Aborted? -- November 24, 2008
Amazing Response -- November 21, 2008
What Do We Say to the Woman Who Has Aborted?
-- November 20, 2008
Important
Senate Runoff In Georgia Approaches -- November 19, 2008
"That Which Was Destroyed Can Be Rebuilt"
-- November 18, 2008
Pro-Lifers Spring into
Action the Day after the Election -- November 17,
2008
Autos for Life 2008 Challenge: "We're Getting There!"
-- November 14, 2008
The Common Struggle to Protect the Unborn
-- November 13, 2008
Catholic Bishops Discuss Abortion and Obama in First
Post-Election Meeting -- November 12, 2008
The Media and Obama: the Past as Prologue?
-- November 11, 2008
The Obama Payoffs He Can Make Unilaterally
-- November 10, 2008
Reflections on Passage of Initiative 1000
-- November 7, 2008
What You Said in Response.... -- November
6, 2008
A Time to Say "Thank You!" -- November 5,
2008
A Final Reminder: Vote
-- November 4, 2008
Last-Minute Work Paying Off: Don't Stop Now!
-- November 3, 2008
October 2008
What the Polls Aren't Telling You --
October 31, 2008
Have We Reached the Tipping Point? --
October 30, 2008
If Ever You Had Reason to Reply, It's Today!
-- October 29, 2008
Pro-Lifers Respond Massively to "A Quick and Easy Way
to Get the Message to Millions" -- October 28, 2008
A Quick and Easy Way to Get the Message to Millions
-- October 27, 2008
The Politics of Intimidation -- October 23,
2008
Pro-Life Gov. Sarah Palin: Immense Grace Under
Pressure -- October 22, 2008
Archbishop Chaput: Senator Obama "most committed
'abortion-rights' presidential candidate of either major party since the
Roe v. Wade abortion decision" -- October 21, 2008
A Massive McCain Rally In Woodbridge, Virginia
-- October 20, 2008
Obama Supporters'
Intellectual Sleight of Hand -- October 17, 2008
At Long Last: A Debate About Abortion --
October 16, 2008
The Context of Tonight's
Final Presidential Debate -- October 15, 2008
Proud to be a Single-Issue Voter -- October
14, 2008
About Time to Call Obama on Abortion --
October 13, 2008
The Potentially Decisive Difference You Can
Make -- October 10, 2008
Study Shows Quarter of
Oregonians Requesting Assisted Suicide Are Depressed -- October
9, 2008
Unapologetically Pro-Life -- October 8,
2008
Peering Behind the Curtain -- October 7,
2008
Catching Up With the
Pro-Abortionists -- October 6, 2008
About That Debate -- October 3, 2008
Understanding Sarah Palin -- October 2,
2008
Excuses for Obama Melt
Away -- October 1, 2008
September 2008
Call
Today to Order Copies of October NRL News -- September 30, 2008
Hyperbole Times Five
-- September 29, 2008
First Debate On: McCain
and Obama to Meet in Mississippi -- September 26, 2008
A Deeply Disturbing
Portrait of Parental Neglect and Abandonment -- September 25,
2008
Trig: A Standing Rebuke
-- September 24, 2008
Abortion Rate Hits
30-Year Low, Smaller Decrease Among Black and Hispanic Women --
September 23, 2008
Some Thoughts about Barack Obama's "Faith,
Family and Values Tour" -- September 22, 2008
"He Can Run, But He Can't Hide" --
September 19, 2008
The Impact
of Trig Palin -- September 18, 2008
Cold by Anyone's
Standards -- September 17, 2008
Back to Back to Back to
Back…. -- September 16, 2008
Holding Women Hostage To Fear
-- September 15, 2008
Gov. Palin and Charlie
Gibson: Round One -- September 12, 2008
Massive Virginian
Rally for McCain/Palin --
September 11, 2008
Genuinely Above Their Pay Grade
-- September 10. 2008
Starting a Serious National Conversation About Barack Obama
-- September 9, 2009
Reduced to Sputtering
-- September 8, 2008
McCain
Tapped Into a Deep Vein Of Idealism -- September 5, 2008
Palin Wows America in
Her Maiden Speech -- September 4, 2008
"We Recognize One of
Us" -- September 3, 2008
Smears and Gutter
Attacks on Gov. Palin Expected But No Less Hurtful and Cruel --
September 2, 2008
In "Stunning
Breakthrough" Adult Cells Reprogrammed to Produce Insulin in Mice
-- September 1, 2008
August 2008
Pro-Lifers Ecstatic Over Selection of Alaska Gov.
Sarah Palin as John McCain's
Vice Presidential Running Mate -- August 29, 2008
Republican Party Platform Language on Abortion
Stronger and More Comprehensive -- August 28, 2008
The Democratic National Convention: Day Two
-- August 27, 2008
"On the Separation of Sense and State" --
August 26, 2008
What Does Obama's Selection of Biden Signify?
-- August 25, 2008
The Case Against
Barack Obama -- August 22, 2008
John McCain--A Champion
for Our Issue -- August 21, 2008
Al Gore, Call Your Office -- August 20,
2008
Continuing to Unravel -- August 19, 2008
McCain Scores Perfect
"10" at Saddleback Forum; Obama Flounders
-- August 18, 2008
"Why Do I Feel So Badly?" -- August 15,
2008
Senator McCain's "Thoroughly Pro-Life Pedigree"
-- August 14, 2008
Fool Me Umpteen Times, Blame on Me --
August 13, 2008
A Plentiful Crop Waiting to be Harvested --
August 12, 2008
The Truth About Obama &
Democrats Try to Mask Their Position of Abortion on Demand --
August 11, 2008
Few Americans Know Barack Obama's Real Position on
Abortion -- August 8, 2008
Extremism by Anyone's Definition -- August
7, 2008
Obama's
Health Care Proposals May Lead to Many More Abortion Deaths
-- August 6, 2008
"In the Balance": McCain and Obama on Judicial
Nominees -- August 5, 2008
Heeding Sound Advice -- August 4, 2008
The Four Ingredients for Success -- August
1, 2008
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