Just like in the movie "Scanners"...

John Hawkins at Right-Wing News presents an image that would make most Liberals' heads explode.

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Congrats, England!

Vilmar expresses his heart-felt thanks to the Brits. Now that we won't have put up with Hillary's bullsh*t about bringing the games to NY.

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The "Roe Effect"...

For some time now, James Taranto has been discussing a theory that he calls the Roe Effect in his Best of the Web column. Today he fleshes out a fascinating summary of this concept in OpinionJournal.com.

Since the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, America has become polarized in its support or opposition to laws that would regulate abortion and Democrats and Republicans have staked out one side of the issue or the other in their platforms. Republicans, however - in practice - have the advantage in the debate. While the party generally favors some simple regulations (most of which the majority of the population is in favor of), the Democrats are forced to defend an all-or-nothing position that allows such unpopular practices as partial-birth abortions, no parental consent and taxpayer-funded abortion.

But more to the point, one major effect of Roe over the years has been to thin out the potential pool of Democrat voters. Taranto explains:

It is a statement of fact, not a moral judgment, to observe that every pregnancy aborted today results in one fewer eligible voter 18 years from now. More than 40 million legal abortions have occurred in the United States since 1973, and these are not randomly distributed across the population. Black women, for example, have a higher abortion ratio (percentage of pregnancies aborted) than Hispanic women, whose abortion ratio in turn is higher than that of non-Hispanic whites. Since blacks vote Democratic in far greater proportions than Hispanics, and whites are more Republican than Hispanics or blacks, ethnic disparities in abortion ratios would be sufficient to give the GOP a significant boost--surely enough to account for George W. Bush's razor-thin Florida victory in 2000.

The Roe effect, however, refers specifically to the nexus between the practice of abortion and the politics of abortion. It seems self-evident that pro-choice women are more likely to have abortions than pro-life ones, and common sense suggests that children tend to gravitate toward their parents' values. This would seem to ensure that Americans born after Roe v. Wade have a greater propensity to vote for the pro-life party--that is, Republican--than they otherwise would have.

And the effect is compounded over time as children who are not born do not, in turn, have their own children and grandchildren and so on. Of course, the irony is that should Roe be overturned and the jurisdiction of abortion laws be returned to the States, the political positions of the two parties would be reversed - with the Republicans defending a more absolutist position to the Democrats fighting for limited legalization in certain States.

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Happy Birthday, Mr. President!

Born July 6, 1946 in New Haven, CT.

And some GOP trivia. The Republican Party, created 151 years ago in opposition to the spread of slavery to the territories, held its first official convention on this day in 1954 in Jackson, MI.

Betcha didn't know that!

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Bench Contenders...

Reviewed and rated by Polipundit.

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Nice boobs, mister...

A dude in Russia, trying to impersonate his sister so he could take a university entrance exam for her, got busted because he was packing too much sweater-meat.

Yasen Zasursky, dean of the journalism department, said security staff paid particular attention to a girl with bright makeup and "especially outstanding feminine features".

A thorough check revealed that the girl was in fact a young man trying to pose as a girl to pass the exam for his sister.

The dean said that security were especially suspicious because the applicant's breasts were of "incomparable proportions".

They thought that cheat notes could be hidden inside her clothing. However, it turned out that the breasts were fake.

Imagine this guy thinking "Hmm, how can I avoid as much attention as possible? I know! I'll distract them with my huge knockers!"

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The Better Half...

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"America...F*** Yeah!"

You Are 89% American

You're as American as red meat and shooting ranges. Tough and independent, you think big. You love everything about the US, wrong or right. And anyone who criticizes your home better not do it in front of you!

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Kos = Osama?

Dr. Rusty Shackleford at the Jawa Report takes the childishly stupid post by Kos comparing Al Qaida and the Taliban to the American religious right (naming them the American Taliban, cute) and turns it right back on him and the Left.

Good stuff!

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MTV's Live8 Pink Floyd screw up...

A couple of very unhappy campers here and here. I'm going to go hide under my desk now.

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French President Insults the British...

With the current relationship between France and Britain at an all-time low and future of EU uncertain, French President "Black" Jacques Chirac added a little more fuel to the fire with a recent comment in the French newspaper Liberation:

“The only thing they (the English) have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow,” Chirac quipped, according to the paper, prompting laughter from Schroeder and Putin.

This from a nation whose only contribution to European military history is the invention of the white flag. Sacre bleu!

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Janice Rogers Brown - the easiest choice...

President Bush has had plenty of time to look over replacement candidates for retiring Supremes but O'Connor's unexpected move gives the White House an opportunity to appoint a true reliable originalist to the court and make history at the same time - and Democrats would have a nearly impossible task ahead of them.

For the record, I am totally opposed to an appointment simply because of race or gender. In my opinion Brown is not only a leading candidate but is likely headed to the Supreme Court sooner or later (assuming we get at least one more retirement in the next three years) so what better time than now?

Brendan Miniter in OpinionJournal.com today lays out the case:

She's a conservative with a long record on California's Supreme Court and had been one of several judges being filibustered by Senate Democrats. But after being confirmed last month, she now sits on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, a court that has produced more than its share of Supreme Court justices. Thanks to the deal seven Democrats hammered out with seven Republicans she is, by definition, not "extreme" enough that her nomination would constitute "extraordinary circumstances" justifying a filibuster.

Anyway, filibustering Judge Brown would also block the first black woman from taking a seat on the high court. Never underestimate the power of "a first" in getting Supreme Court nominee through the Senate. Justice O'Connor, the first woman to sit on the high court, sailed through 99-0 in 1981. Five years later, President Reagan sent up Antonin Scalia to be the first Italian-American to sit on the highest court in the land. He is now the bane of the left, but in 1986, he won confirmation 98-0.

How does a Democrat Senator who just voted for her a month ago say "no" today (with a vote or a filibuster) without completely losing credibility? You get an excellent Associate Justice on the court AND you further expose this obstructionist sham, giving another opportunity for African-Americans to see the hypocrisy of the party they so blindly support. If Democrats want to play politics in this process, Republicans can play just as well.

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"All your strength, all your power, all your love. Everything you've got. Right now!"

No, it's not Rocky IV, but the coming battle will be just as epic.

O'Connor steps aside and now Team Bush and the GOP must fight harder than they've ever fought before. If the Dems win - no matter who the President nominates - it will be hard to get up off that mat. But if we win, it will be a crushing blow to a party already gasping for air. (I know I'm milking the boxing analogy here) Power is slowly slipping away from them and now they have only the courts to advance their radical agenda. Take no prisoners.

As Jed Babbin writes in The American Spectator:

The President should take the offense in the Supreme Court fight for one simple reason: the libs are vastly more vulnerable politically than he is. If he allows them to dominate politics with the confirmation process, they may win that fight and too many others. Decisive, forceful leadership on the Court and other issues is the way to stop the Deanocrats in their tracks. The President's victory last November is attributable, in no small part, to social conservatives who voted not so much for Mr. Bush as against legalizing same-sex marriages, against courts that toy with the Pledge of Allegiance, and against a man who they obviously could not rely on to defend their personal freedoms at home or their nation abroad. When the President nominates someone who produces howls and shrieks from NOW, Michael Moore and Howard Dean, the Americans who re-elected George Bush in November can be re-energized, and the libs again defeated.

The liberals will suffer the most when -- as is almost certain -- Chief Justice Rehnquist also resigns and the President nominates a second judicial conservative. Howard Dean's head may implode, others will spontaneously combust, and the rest will vanish into their psychiatrists' offices. (I once recommended the purchase of Roche Pharmaceuticals and GlaxoSmithKline stock because they make Wellbutrin and Prozac. If you don't buy them now, you really should die poor.) The libs, not Dubya, will suffer Confirmation Paralysis. It is thus precisely the right time to pull out all the stops, and accomplish some critical objectives.

Let's rock!

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Sunset...

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Happy Independence Day (Weekend) To All...

Love your country, love your flag and love your fellow Americans (even the Liberals a-holes who hate you)!

Fly it proudly this weekend. Happy Birthday America!

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Diane Lane Photo of the Week...

Gentlemen, you get your picture a day early - and all weekend as I'll be heading to the lake retreat with the family until the 4th. Till then, enjoy!

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