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--- Saturday, November 08, 2003
Unfortunately, it looks like recent US intelligence was right on the money about a terrorist threat in Saudi Arabia. Twenty or so people were reportedly killed today by a three-point attack. Sometimes it's no fun to be right. But it would seem that al-Qaeda is getting bolder in the region.
--- Friday, November 07, 2003
Episcopal Church Casts Lots
In the midst of the fallout of the Episcopal Church's gay-bishop consecration, Christianity Today offers a list of reactions from each of the world's Anglican provinces.
It is encouraging to note the upholding of Scripture by most of the bodies, particularly the ones in Africa. Maybe for the ECUSA, being so "progressive" wasn't so great after all.
PBA Ban Small Step Toward Reclaiming Sanctity of Life
Mona Charen presents the brutal facts about partial-birth abortion.
"From the beginning, this issue has brought out the worst in the pro-abortion lobby."
I Peter 3
Some of our worst fears about the capture of Jessica Lynch were confirmed in the pages of her new biography, which cites medical records showing that Pvt. Lynch was raped by the enemy captors. I don't think we really doubted that this was the case, but it's still heart-wrenching to have it in writing. WND's Joseph Farah writes, in a hard-hitting column, "Women aren't missing out on an opportunity by being prevented from entering combat. They need to understand the truth -- they are being valued higher than the young men whose blood we spill on the battlefield."
It was once the case that the rules of combat involved protecting women and children at all costs. In today's technological warfare, it may be impossible to do that completely, but the very character of our nation is lost if we become indifferent to the placement of women in front of the battlefield.
--- Thursday, November 06, 2003
Hollywood Machine Takes Over Matrix, Defeats Human Viewers
I made the pilgrimage to see the final installment of The Matrix trilogy last night, and let's just say it was anticlimactic at best. Pretty much everything wholesome and/or entertaining about the other two movies in the series (Number One in particular) was stripped out of the conclusion. It's coarse, dark, and weird. Very weird. (Perhaps the big, secret ending is that the Revolutions in theaters now isn't the actual movie at all! I'll be waiting for the real thing...)
Jonathan Last at The Weekly Standard hits it on the head: "After a brief encounter, the Merovingian -- easily the most interesting and entertaining character in the series -- exits, stage left, never to be seen again. This disappearance is the first in a series of abandoned subplots, themes, and physical laws which the first two movies went to great pains to lay out."
--- Wednesday, November 05, 2003
Legal Games Begin on PBA Ban
Before the ink dried on the newly signed law to ban partial-birth abortion, a district court judge in Nebraska pounced on the legislation by filing a limited restraining order. The judge claimed that the law is unconstitutional, citing its lack of provision for excepting the health of the mother as one example. That's pretty much been the mantra of the pro-abortion crowd since this bill was initiated -- along with the accusation that the bill is too "vague."
The first paragraph of the bill states: "A moral, medical, and ethical consensus exists that the practice of performing a partial-birth abortion -- an abortion in which a physician delivers an unborn child's body until only the head remains inside the womb, punctures the back of the child's skull with a Sharp instrument, and sucks the child's brains out before completing delivery of the dead infant -- is a gruesome and inhumane procedure that is never medically necessary and should be prohibited."
That seems disgustingly specific to me, and it's atrocious that certain groups are working so hard to protect this procedure. What an incredible stretch to say that prohibiting this "medical" act somehow violates the rights of women! Granted, many pro-lifers see PBA as merely one battlefield in a larger war. But it's scary to see how far pro-abortion advocates are willing to draw the line. It's bad enough that we cannot see the human life present in what is so casually referred to as "the woman's fetus." But how is it even thinkable in the medical profession to allow the dismemberment of a life just minutes from seeing his first rays of light? A "partial-birth" abortion kills a total baby.
The XYZ of ABC's Heresy
Brent Bozell picks apart ABC's recent special on "The Da Vinci Code":
The program's host, ABC reporter Elizabeth Vargas, claimed she would reveal "surprising truths" about this bizarre thesis. But over and over, it was apparent ABC had not uncovered a thing.
Wouldn't you think that in the hard-bitten, skeptical environs of the television news business...this entire concept would be laughed right out the window before it started?
The Lives We Save
The President is scheduled to sign into law today a ban on partial-birth abortion. Praise God that this day has finally come. Jill Stanek writes a column emphasizing that "the PBA ban won't save one life. It will save millions."
NOTE: Pres. Bush will sign the bill at 1:40, Washington, DC, time.
--- Tuesday, November 04, 2003
Absurdity Reaches a New Low
Set your VCRs. The Rev. Al Sharpton is scheduled to host Saturday Night Live next month. And I am too speechless to even make a sarcastic comment worthy of such a venture.
--- Monday, November 03, 2003
Rewriting the Scripture
I just watched the last half of ABC's special on Jesus and Mary Magdalene. The liberal scholars outweighed the conservatives by about 4 to 1, and I didn't hear Matthew, Mark, Luke or John quoted once. I'm sure the first half was better.
Supreme Court Won't Take 10 Commandments Appeal
And Speaking of George W Bush...
Democratic congressman Zell Miller takes an astounding endorsement for the Bush '04 campaign to the pages of the Wall Street Journal today.
"My political history to the contrary, this was the easiest decision I think I've ever made in deciding who to support. For I believe the next five years will determine the kind of world my four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren will live in. I simply cannot entrust that crucial decision to any one of the current group of Democratic presidential candidates."
Lieberman's Integrity
Democratic Presidential Candidate Joseph Lieberman, in a WashingtonPost.com chat, on voting to support Pres. Bush's request for $87 billion for Iraq: "I hope people who don't agree with me on this particular vote will decide that they want someone as their president who does what he believes is right, particularly when it is controversial. That is what I mean when I say I will lead America with integrity."
I do applaud Mr. Lieberman's support for a President Bush who is doing "what he believes is right," even though it's controversial. Thanks, Joe, for reminding me why I voted for him.
US Church Rebuked
Following yesterday's consecration of Bishop Gene Robinson, Anglicans around the world have expressed their disapproval at the appointment of a homosexual bishop.
Why is this such a big deal? "Because the word of God teaches us clearly what the standards are for Christian behavior in leaders and Canon Robinson does not fulfill those requirements." Plainly stated by Australian archbishop Peter Jensen. "This creates a split for the first time in a particular area, and that's a tragedy but it's necessary if the truth is to be preserved."
If only more American Episcopalians had taken such a high view of Scripture -- but preserving the truth did not seem to be a factor in this decision.
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