Looney Lautenberg

Frank Lautenberg impugns pro-lifers as child molesters:

(CNSNews.com) – In expressing opposition to the House Republicans’ “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) said politicians should not interfere with his family’s health and well-being. He

Grizzly Gosnell, massacre in Pennsylvania, where are the calls to ban high capacity assault scissors?  Where is the Pennsylvania Department of Health berated for promoting a climate of hate?  Why has not Barack Obama been made to account for

Editor’s note:
We’ve been reposting this at BitsBlog for over a decade, now, each Christmas.  It’s among the most popular and requested posts we’ve ever had. It’s become a site tradition.

A Bithead’s Christmas

I find myself wanting to take

Editor’s note:

As this is written, (Edited, really) I’m preparing to go to bed. I have to leave at 3am for Southern PA from my western NY home, to make a 10am delivery.

As such I really don’t have a

A pro-life surge? Could be apparent republican congressional surge wash out baby killing democrats from Congress?  One can only hope. Politico runs a story about potential set back to women, but Jill Stanek has the real story:

While conservatives are

t was nearly the end of the day, today , when I finally realized that I had not written anything in terms of a comment on the day.

Usually I tend to take the attitude that if I don’t have

Earth to WaPo, come in please. Tim Talley, Associated Press. “Clinic: New Okla. abortion law hard on patients.”    While Oklahoma abortion law may, or may not, be hard on patients, actually mothers, it is even harder on

Mary Mitchell, Sun-Times(Chicago)

That is why I find the billboard campaign that targets black women with a frightening anti-abortion message disturbing.

The ad, which has gone up across Atlanta, features a beautiful black baby and the words: Black Children

Bye-Bayh, Fox News:

Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh will not seek re-election this November, an unexpected decision that hands Republicans an opportunity for a pick-up in a year when Democrats are already defending several open Senate seats.

And Barbara

JonesToTheGrindstone.com

It’s Friday night, already past 10, and the line to get in is forming. Everybody has got their best face forward–carefully selected images. No ugly faces.

Everyone has their most put out there and their words carefully chosen. You

It has been said that writing down one’s thoughts and expecting others to read them is one of the most narcissistic acts possible.

By JonesToTheGrindstone.com

My family and best friends tell me that I am a talented writer and that

Editor’s note: Originally posted on Christmas Eve, 2004.

This is a time of year when I don’t envy the position of members of the cloth.

Such men and women find themselves in the position of having to write a sermon

There is no moral imperative driving this message, tonight — no calls for a life of self sacrifice, no direct calls for intensive reflection this night, not even a real punch line of the story.  I will let you decide

By Karen Jones, JonesToTheGrindstone.com

I am building a catalog of tools and equipment to better ease us through our days—as we live amongst those who just don’t “get” us, want to “get” us, or even notice us as needing to