Political Ad Hoc
Here are some random political news items from the wire reports:
Don’t Mess With the U.S.
A 56 year-old California man has been sentenced in federal court to 15 years in prison for selling critical parts for military jet fighters to China.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Dean Boyd said Amanullah Kahn was sentenced Monday evening by U.S. District Judge David O. Carter, who also ordered the man to pay restitution of more than $5.4 million.
Who Let the Neocons Out?
in France?
{Sacre bleu}
Oppressive Gummint
in Illinois:
Walgreen Co. said it has put four Illinois pharmacists . . . on unpaid leave for refusing to fill prescriptions for emergency contraception in violation of a state rule.
(Emphasis added.)
A state rule, huh?
They’re *mandated* to sell a drug that effectuates murder under the tenets of their religion?
*Mandated?*
Well, I trust the Andrew Sullivan, silver-spoon, and Ivy League grad school “libertarian” cartels {phffttt} are as outraged over that type of governmental diktat as they would have been if Illinois had mandated all bookstores must sell Bibles, or had outlawed tobacco, imposed strict zoning requirements for the viewing of adult films, or perhaps regulated sales of alcohol with quotas?
{……Riiiight……}
P.S. - I’m not a pro-life conservative. Nobody would confuse me with Rick Santorum, Henry Hyde or Tom Coburn on the issue of abortion.
P.P.S. - Isn’t the phrase “emergency contraception” an oxymoron?
“Emergency contraception?”
“Emergency?”
“E-mer-gen-cy?”
Honestly, last time I checked having sex is not at all like going into anaphylatic shock or having appendicitis.
Or at least it *shouldn’t* be, Botox Girl.
On a serious note, the abortion-on-demand lobby always has been very clever in the ways in which they’ve pitched their agenda. After all, when Roe and Emily Casual Voter pick up the L.A. Times, the Miami Herald, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, the Boston Globe or the Seattle Times – to get their {ahem} “news” – the phrases “emergency contraception” and “morning-after pill” make the NARAL brigades look a lot more appealing than if the Fourth Estate would use “abortion pill” as its verbiage.
— Jayson