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Clinging to Guns - And Abortion
The Wall Street Journal
April 18, 2013
Everyone Clings to Something, and We Now Know what Liberals Cling to
By Daniel Henninger
Atop the quotable Barack Obama there will be this: "And it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them."
Everyone clings to something. But when it comes to criticizing unseemly political dependencies, it's almost always liberals accusing them of clinging to positions and ideas that an enlightened society would have abandoned.
But what do liberals cling to? Recent events have revealed two things. Gun control and abortion.
Dead Silence
The New York Post
April 11, 2013
Editorial
Normally those of us in the news business love trials, the more sensational the better. Just look at the coverage of the Jodi Arias murder trial in Maricopa County, Ariz. — or earlier national obsessions with Casey Anthony and O.J. Simpson.
Which makes the media blackout of one ongoing trial a mystery. Or maybe not.
In Philadelphia, Kermit Gosnell is on trial on eight counts of murder: seven for babies he’s accused of killing with scissors after they were born, and one for a pregnant refugee who died after receiving an overdose of drugs. If true, Gosnell was running a slaughterhouse out of the Middle Ages.
Supreme Court Should Avoid Fundamental Roe v. Wade Mistake in Gay Marriage Ruling
Trenton Times
April 5, 2013, 6:42 AM
By Gregory J. Sullivan
The two days of arguments over same-sex marriage at the United States Supreme Court reveal that what appears to be a majority of the justices are reluctant to issue a sweeping ruling on the constitutionality of the practice.
The reluctance is perfectly understandable: The pall of Roe v. Wade, decided in 1973, continues to hang over the legitimacy of the court, and repeating the mistake of that case is wisely avoided.
Roe’s fundamental mistake was to remove, completely without constitutional warrant, the volatile issue of abortion from democratic regulation in the states and impose one radically permissive view on the entire country. Far from settling the question, the court in Roe transformed abortion into what rapidly became — and remains — the defining and most divisive issue of our political life. What is more, far from accepting the laughable direction from the court in Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) for “the contending sides of the national controversy to end their national division by accepting a common mandate rooted in the Constitution,” states continue, reasonably, to test the limits of acceptable regulation.
On Capitalism
The Wall Street Journal
April 4, 2013
Pg. A13
On Capitalism, Pope Francis, Barack Obama, and Francois Hollande
Aren's Singing from the Same Hymnal
By Daniel Henninger
Public relations for capitalists hasn't been so hard since Thomas Nast was caricaturing them in 19th-century America. The back wash of the 2008 financial crisis has put capitalist baiting back in vogue.
The president of the United States got himself elected to a second term with a four-year assault on "the wealthiest" and the "well off." French President Nicolas Sarkozy attacked the "free-wheeling Anglo-Saxon model" of capitalism, so the French dumped him to elect an aggressive anti-capitalist.
Now comes the pope.
In his Easter message Sunday, Pope Francis devoted nine words to a "world still divided by greed looking for easy gain." Does this mean we have the answer to whether Francis would join the ranks of capitalism's critics? Some thought so.
Parents Seek Asylum to Keep Family Intact
The Washington Times
April 3, 2013
Editorial
A Plea From Abused Homeschoolers
The open border so dear to the hearts of many Democrats, eager to get the 11 million illegal aliens on the voter rolls, ends short of compassion for refugees from First World countries, as Uwe and Hannelore Romeike have found out. The administration is working overtime to deport this family because they home-school their children.
The Romeikes fled their native Germany in 2008 after uniformed police officers arrived at their home and forcibly took their children to government-run schools. Home-schooling has been illegal in Germany since 1938, when the Nazis brooked no resistance to state control of everything. The Romeikes were fined thousands for their resistance.