Archive for January, 2010

Majority of Americans believe Abortion is morally wrong

Posted: 22nd January 2010 by Scott @ The Right of a Nation in Abortion

Check it out, there’s some good news according to PRNewsWire.
According to a Knights of Columbus/Marist poll,

58% of “Millennials” (those 18-29)
51% of Baby Boomers (those 45-64)
60% of Generation X (those 30-44)
>60% of the Greatest Generation (those 65+)

feel that abortion is morally wrong.
So, the majority of people, and children even more so than their parents, are becoming [...]

Planned Parenthood lying about Martin Luther King, Jr.

Posted: 22nd January 2010 by Scott @ The Right of a Nation in Abortion
Tags:

According to Christian Newswire, Dr. Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King Jr., has insisted that Planned Parenthood stop lying about her uncle.
“Every year Planned Parenthood tries to imply that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would approve of what it does today because he received an award from the organization 44 years ago,” said Dr. [...]

Gun-Owners are Fearful and Paranoid

Posted: 21st January 2010 by Scott @ The Right of a Nation in 2nd Amendment
Tags:

At least according to Daniel Johnson at Salem-News.
If you want to read the whole load of nonsense, you can go to the above link.  I’ll give you a few choice quotes.
Mr. Johnson says that the support for the 2nd Amendment is about fear, on two levels.
“The first level, which goes back to the beginning, is [...]

Brown’s win is a good thing – but not a great thing

Posted: 20th January 2010 by Scott @ The Right of a Nation in 2nd Amendment, General Politics

The fact that Republican Scott Brown won the Senate race in Massachusetts is a good thing for a few reasons:

a Republican won in a Democrat stronghold
it indicates people leaning toward Republicans
it suggests people are turning against Obama and do not like what he is doing
it ends the Democrat super-majority and basically kills the healthcare bill

Before [...]

Sen. DeMint (R-SC) helps cause Southers to withdraw

Posted: 20th January 2010 by Scott @ The Right of a Nation in General Politics, South Carolina

Congrats to Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina for putting pressure on Erroll Southers and causing him to eventually withdraw his name from consideration of TSA head.
The Washington Post notes that DeMint was worried Southers would allow TSA employees collective bargaining rights.
In addition, there was concern about the fact that Southers was caught running background [...]

Brown Says Election Not About Obama

Posted: 20th January 2010 by Scott @ The Right of a Nation in General Politics
Tags:

Senator-elect Scott Brown of Massachusetts is now saying that he doesn’t think the election was “a referendum on Obama.”
I don’t know if this is him not trying to make any waves, or if it is his way of attempting to stroke his own ego.  Either way, he then went on to say it also wasn’t [...]

Brown vs. Coakley today

Posted: 19th January 2010 by Scott @ The Right of a Nation in General Politics

As everyone already knows, the Senate race in Massachusetts ends today.
If Republican Scott Brown wins, it will obviously be seen as a huge victory for Republicans and also a sign of things to come as far as the elections this year go.  In addition, it will supposedly sound the death knell for the healthcare bill.
When [...]

White House to basically make up new job creation numbers

Posted: 13th January 2010 by Scott @ The Right of a Nation in General Politics

The White House was already engaging in some tomfoolery with how they counted how many jobs were “created or saved” by the stimulus projects.  Now the Associated Press reports that the White House is basically going to start making up those numbers.
You don’t even really need to read the entire article, just this part:
“That means [...]

Obama has “strengthened America”

Posted: 12th January 2010 by Scott @ The Right of a Nation in National Security / Foreign Affairs

A few days ago I noted Obama’s suggestion that America has brought terrorism (such as the Christmas day bombing attempt) on itself with its actions, specifically the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.  You can read that here – The Right of a Nation 1-6-2010.
Now, according to Breitbart, this has come up again in Ben Rhodes assessment [...]

AP – Judge tosses evidence on former Gitmo detainee

Posted: 11th January 2010 by Scott @ The Right of a Nation in National Security / Foreign Affairs

The Associated Press is reporting that a judge has tossed out most of the evidence that the US had against a terrorism detainee that has been held in Guantanamo Bay.  The judge has declared that many of the statements made by Musa’ab Omar Al Madhwani were made while he was being held in “harsh treatment” [...]