One report said that Dr. Tiller was shot in the foyer. Another version claimed that he was hit in the torso. The gunman fled, but a 51-year-old suspect was arrested some 170 miles away in suburban Kansas City three hours after the shooting, Wichita Deputy Police Chief Tom Stolt said. “That old boy can flat drive fast, that’s for sure,” the chief allowed

The suspect's name was not released; police had been looking for a gunman who fled in a car registered in the Kansas City suburb of Merriam. Stolt said the man was being brought back to Wichita. “Why take him to Chicago or St. Louis, when he didn’t have any connections there?” the chief insisted.

“He died in a place of peace,” intoned the deceased child killer’s attorney. Tiller’s victims also died in a place of peace – the mother’s womb, a holy place in God’s eyes, where sanctity and security are an inalienable right – in America, if not in communist China, for example, where killing the unborn is not an option but a mandate.

The Guangdong Region was proclaimed champion of abortions in 1996, the last year for which local totals are available. Jiangxi came in second. Asked why there are no definitive statistics in recent years, an abortion expert said, “Who’s counting?”

On a worldwide basis, in 2003, 48% of all abortions were termed “unsafe”. It is likely that this is an understatement, since 100% of the abortions were not only unsafe, but deadly – for the unborn infant, of course.

So the beat goes on. Here in the USA, baby-killers with licenses continue to ply their deadly trade with abandon, despite protests and petitions by pro-life citizens. The Christian community is perhaps the most outspoken and committed to outlawing abortion – legally, and by non-violent means.

The word’s out. President Obama has figured out a combination that he feels will boiler-plate his nominee for Supreme Court Justice. Sonja Saddamizer. (That can’t be right. I’ll check out Merriam-Webster to see what the experts say and get back to it. Or not.)

Well, when the president announced his nominee, an admittedly bright lady of Puerto Rican descent, I was more than surprised, like a lot of people, at how he justified his choice.

“I picked her for several reasons, which I refuse to enumerate. First, she’s about the same hue as I am. That was key. She’s definitely not white. Hell, I’m more white than she is. So in some ways I resent what she said about honkies not having a richness of experience. Although she’s a little truculent, whatever that means, you can see for yourself that she is a tad porky. She seems to have good teeth, so she’s healthier than most babes of color. Since she is an outspoken racist, I have wondered if she might harbor secret harmful thoughts about people who are the offspring of Thai males and white American babes. But in a way I like her candor, because she says insensitive, racist things about a group that I happen to dislike – el gringos.”

Judge Soddenminor noted that the Supreme Court was uniformly white and male when it delivered historic rulings against racial and sexual discrimination. And she said she tried to question her own “opinions, sympathies, prejudices, and stuff.” She concluded that she had no bias, or scorn for people who aren’t like her, “although I could if I wanted to.”

Still, Judge Sarasota questioned whether achieving impartiality “is possible in all, or even, in most, cases.” She added, “And I wonder whether by ignoring our differences as women or men of color we do a disservice both to the law and society.”

By this time, the eyes of many in the crowd were beginning to glaze over and they transitioned into serious siesta mode because, while it was obvious that the judge knows a lot of big words, she was getting mucho boring.

“We really don’t need to know that much about her anyway,” said Nancy Pelosi. “She’s non-white, non-Republican, non-conservative, non-male, and Barack picked her out. What more do we want? We can’t go off invading her privacy, for gosh sakes. She’s got her dignity, after all. Know what I’m sayin’? And why can't I vote, by the way? I'm as important as any Senator and a lot prettier than Richard Byrd.”

Warning: There is a remote possibility that much of the foregoing “information” is in error, totally satirical, and probably irrelevant in the extreme. But I couldn’t swear to it.

I THINK BLOOMBERG HAS GOOD STUFF. A juicy tidbit by the news service recently dealt with the bizarre goings-on over selection of a replacement for David Souter on the High Court. Well, this decision goes beyond a routine political litmus test to ascertain the track record and credentials of Souter’s successor. Here are some of the other attributes this individual will have to offer, if you can believe it, and I do:

·        Must be a woman (definitely not a male and stuff like that)

·        Must be thin (i.e. not fat, obese, chubby, porky, etc.)

·        Must be healthy (not likely to die too soon for the party in power, or PIP)

Friends, is that not cool? And can you imagine the fireworks if such a scandalous development were to take place during consideration of a Justice by a conservative Republican president?

Well, that ain’t happening here. Instead of fireworks, there’s just a smoldering of sorts as news leaks out about these embarrassing revelations in the Democrats’ consideration process.

Oh, I’m just loving this. How politically incorrect can the Democrats be? What a zoo! But I think they overlooked an obvious choice – Twiggy.

THE HAMMER HAS FALLEN in the U.S. Senate confirmation of Obama pick Kathleen Sebelius as the nation’s Health and Human Services secretary. The 65-31 vote, said AP, propels the former Kansas governor “into the middle of the public health emergency involving swine flu.”

The wire service report consequently found a handy dodge to overlook one of the most compelling stories of the Sebelius confirmation – her appalling record on abortion.

North Carolina has senators on both sides of this struggle, and they voted according to their respective parties, and, it must be expected, their heartfelt beliefs – U.S. Senator Kay Hagan, a liberal Democrat (YES), and U.S. Senator Richard Burr, a conservative Republican (NO). I sent the following email to Senator Hagan, as part of an American Conservative Union vote monitoring campaign:  

“I am disappointed but not surprised at your vote in favor of confirmation of Abortion Queen Kathleen Sebelius. This move will directly cost the lives of many unborn babies. How could you do this? Have you stopped to think what a horror it is to be ripped from your mother's womb, then discarded in a dumpster? I know you do not consider what your fate would have been if your own mother had the urge -- for any reason -- to rid herself of the child that would be Kay Hagan. I will do all I can to assure your defeat in the next election. I wonder if you are worth saving, although innocent unborn children definitely are.”

Wow. That came off a little tougher than I thought. Do I sound insensitive? Well, I hope so. But our “leaders” who shrug off the real meaning of abortion should be subjected to the heat of public opinion on this vital issue.

Senator Burr, a Winston-Salem Republican, is getting into the short rows in his first term as a U.S. Senator. Due in part to his low-key approach in Washington, he is considered by Democrats to be a vulnerable target. But he is an honest and capable public servant. North Carolina, which has fielded such outstanding Republican Senators as Jesse Helms and Elizabeth Dole, must not allow both Senate seats to fall into the blue zone. National war chests will make this 2010 contest an important one, as well as an expensive and intensely waged battle. I'll keep you posted as things heat up.

IS BREVITY ALL IT’S CRACKED UP TO BE? YOU BE THE JUDGE:

The Lord’s Prayer         56 words

Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address   266 words

The Ten Commandments     297 words

The Declaration of Independence 300 words

THE REAL NIGHTMARE HASN’T BEGUN YET. Not when the president said he didn’t want lobbyists in his administration, then signed up 17 of them in his first two weeks in office. Not when he lifted travel and remittance restrictions on Cuba. Or when he pointedly spurned ‘earmarks’ in spending proposals, then signed a bill that had 9,000 of them! Not even when he bowed to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.

No, the nightmare will begin to unfold when President Obama exercises the privilege of announcing his preference of a successor to retiring Justice David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court. The Washington Times expects Obama to pick a replacement much like Souter, a liberal erroneously called by those who like him as a “liberal-leaning” nominee. Safe bet. Souter is 69. The other two liberal justices are Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 76, and John Paul Stevens, 89.

Souter was a surprise package selected by George H.W. Bush, who apparently figured if he didn’t have a clue about Souter’s views, he couldn’t be accused of putting a conservative’s name into nomination. So Souter, who didn’t tell anybody much of anything, breezed on in and quickly got fitted for his robes, after which he revealed by his behavior that he was actually a liberal.

If President Obama should win a second term (yikes!), the probability then grows that there might be attrition among conservatives on the bench. The country at that juncture could face a perfect storm and lurch into ignominy with a liberal President, liberal Congress and liberal Supreme Court. An anonymous source named Bob was quoted as saying he was not in position to make a comment about any of this.

LOOKS LIKE GLOBAL WARMING KOOKS might think more of cold cash than cold climate. According to a story in USA Today, “Hopes that humankind will deal with Earth's changing climate are in danger of being dashed by the ongoing ‘Great Recession’."

The article goes on to say, “Under the onslaught of the financial crisis, some European nations have turned skittish on forcing limits in heat-trapping ‘greenhouse’ gas emissions. And stateside, House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, has complained that ‘middle-class families are struggling during this recession,’ in objecting to similar plans to cap emissions.”

Well, now, are we to believe that pocketbook issues, when they strike close to home, are enough to melt the fervor of the unshakable greenie weenies? It appears that they are “fair weather” climate junkies. Pun intended.

Former Time magazine science writer Eugene Linden concedes that the financial crisis has indeed tempered the frenzy which “global warming” fantasies kindled in many left-wing groups.

Way before the current economic dust-up, U.S. business knew that putting too much credence in such unsubstantiated hypotheses -- which are largely intended to weaken the economic stability of Western democracies – would set off a backlash that wouldn’t save the planet, but might bring the free enterprise system to its knees.

The scheme – and it is that – has socialist intrigue written all over it. Headline chasers like Al Gore are the willing pawns of such destructive movements. It may be tough to expose the likes of Mr. Gore, given the left-wing slant of the media that could do the job. But we at TH, allied with a Republican Party with regenerated conservative roots, can pick up much of the slack, and bide our time until the nation regains its sense of reason, and turns on the cynical liberals who are hell-bent on compromising America’s greatness.    

Elsewhere on the environmental front, let’s don’t let anti-business nuts get away with trying to erase “global warming” from the English language in favor of “climate change”. They goofed when they emblazoned “global warming” on their offbeat movement, and now they want to backtrack. Why? Easy. No question that climate can and does change. But while the mean greenies have been quick to claim that we earthlings are in danger of being stewed by rising temperatures, many respected meteorological historians have the facts to challenge the whole trumped-up scenario. So keep “global warming” in the mainstream lexicon. The anti-people people tacked that shingle on their door when they opened up for business. Let’s make them live with it.

AN UNIDENTIFIED AFRICAN POLITICIAN reportedly railed that Americans could slow the spread of swine flu if they would stop eating “things like pork”. Some guy in Texas responded that there actually is nothing like pork. He added that Americans might give up pork if Africans would quit eating people (Note: This is an unsubstantiated, probably erroneous report. I just don’t know.)

US NEWS & WORLD REPORT asks its readers: “What do you think of Obama’s first 100 days in office?” Well, speaking for myself, I’d say the number sounds about right.

A U.K. NEWS DISPATCH informs us that, “after 341 years, the British poet laureate is a woman.” Question is, what was she for all those years before she became a woman?