Posts Tagged ‘abortion’
Alaska School Authorities: Watching a Documentary Film More Dangerous Than Having Abortion
by Phelim McAleerOur documentary Not Evil Just Wrong is on tour in Alaska. The film asks if Global Warming science is really settled but perhaps more importantly focuses on the damage that proposed “solutions” will have on the poorest people on the planet.
Not Evil Just Wrong examines the true cost of expensive energy for those who already live in poverty or fixed incomes.
One of the highlights of the Alaska tour was a visit to Colony High School in Wasilla where we screened an excerpt of the documentary and took questions from students.
Sarah Palin, Wasilla’s most famous resident, did not attend but a large number of children were there and seemed interested and asked interesting questions.
Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth has been shown many times, in many classes at the school and the students seemed to appreciate an alternative. (more…)
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REVIEW: ‘Bump+’ Dares to Take on Abortion ‘Reality’
by Pam MeisterAbortion is a sensitive topic no matter which side of the argument you support. And when I was asked to review the first episode of a web show called “Bump+,” I wasn’t quite sure I wanted to do it.
When it comes to abortion, I am in the pro-life camp. I wasn’t always – but having two children of my own changed my mind. And I’m thankful I was never in a position to have to even think about it. For me, exceptions to this rule are cases like the one in Brazil last year, where a 9-year-old girl who was carrying twins because her stepfather raped her. At that age and that size (she was only 80 pounds), doctors said her life would be endangered.
My personal feelings aside, I realize that — at least for most people — abortion is a serious topic and if you are faced with that choice, it shouldn’t be made lightheartedly. I know several women who have had abortions, and I know that for two of them, the decisions were definitely not easy.
This is why I decided to check out “Bump+,” which is a faux “reality show” about three women out of about 300 who were chosen to participate in a show that will follow them for four weeks, chronicling their struggle to decide whether to have their unplanned babies or abort them. In addition to following their stories, viewers will “decide how our characters’ stories will end,” says executive producer Dominic Iocco. “We’ve opened the official website to comments and our team will craft the final episodes based on audience feedback. The choice is really up to you.” Viewers are encouraged to submit their own stories and comments. (more…)
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Prop 8 On Trial: Bourgeois Moonbats Plead Sanity
by Charles WinecoffUPDATE: After this post was published on Monday, Larry O’Connor (a.k.a. “Stage Right”) invited me to join him on The Stage Right Show on Blog Talk Radio to weigh in on the Prop 8 trial. During our conversation, he asked me a question I’ve asked people on both sides of the issue many times – without ever receiving a proper answer: What exactly is the difference between “domestic partnership” and “marriage” in California? All I could tell Larry was that the answer remained one of the great unsolved mysteries of our time.
Well, thanks to fellow Big Hollywood contributor Adam Baldwin, we now have an important clue. Herewith, I present excerpts from Section 297.5 of the official California Family Code (the words in bold are mine):
(a) Registered domestic partners shall have the same rights, protections, and benefits, and shall be subject to the same responsibilities, obligations, and duties under law, whether they derive from statutes, administrative regulations, court rules, government policies, common law, or any other provisions or sources of law, as are granted to and imposed upon spouses.
(c) A surviving registered domestic partner, following the death of the other partner, shall have the same rights, protections, and benefits, and shall be subject to the same responsibilities, obligations, and duties under law, whether they derive from statutes, administrative regulations, court rules, government policies, common law, or any other provisions or sources of law, as are granted to and imposed upon a widow or a widower.
(d) The rights and obligations of registered domestic partners with respect to a child of either of them shall be the same as those of spouses. The rights and obligations of former or surviving registered domestic partners with respect to a child of either of them shall be the same as those of former or surviving spouses.
(e) To the extent that provisions of California law adopt, refer to, or rely upon, provisions of federal law in a way that otherwise would cause registered domestic partners to be treated differently than spouses, registered domestic partners shall be treated by California law as if federal law recognized a domestic partnership in the same manner as California law.
Sounds an awful lot like “marriage equality” to me. I’m impressed! Yet somehow, the anti-H8ers always manage to avoid any mention of section 297.5 – or any other specifics of state law - preferring instead to keep us all in the dark as they browbeat us with tales of past discrimination.
Keep 297.5 in mind as you read the original post about the War of the Word…. END UPDATE
In a horrendous week when an entire island nation was reduced to rubble and hundreds of thousands of people were left for dead – or homeless, without food or water – Ivy Leaguers, PBS donors, ACLU supporters, and other humanitarians descended on a San Francisco courthouse to turn their fetish for state-sanctioned self-esteem into a federal case.
Perry v. Schwarzenegger is the gay marriage - excuse me, “marriage equality” - case brought against the State of California by a lesbian couple from Berkeley (Kristen Perry and Sandra Stier) and a gay couple from Burbank (Paul Katami and Jeffrey Zarrillo), both of whom petitioned for marriage licenses after Proposition 8 passed in November 2008.
In case you haven’t heard, Prop 8 adds a clause to the state Constitution that “only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California” (a state where domestic partnership already offers couples almost all the same rights, protections, and benefits as married spouses). The couples contend that the ban on same-sex marriage, which a rainbow majority of Californians (including blacks, Latinos, and even some gays) voted for, violates their federal constitutional rights. No surprises there.
Far more shocking is: a) nontraditional LGBTs’ sudden, hysterical need to “tie the knot” - a sado-masochistic fad? - and b) the fact that the plaintiffs are being represented by David Boies and Ted Olson, who you might remember from a little trial back in 2000 called “Bush v. Gore.” That’s right, the one the Left’s been holding onto for dear life ever since. (more…)
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Daily Gut: Women — The Next Endangered Species
by Greg Gutfeld
There`s nothing I love more than female celebrities helping out troubled beasts or endangered species. You`ve got Pam Anderson worrying about the polar bears, Doris Day fretting over abandoned cats and dogs – and of course, Sheryl Crow passionately fighting for wild horses currently roaming our country. Apparently, Crow`s mad at the government for trying to remove 25,000 mustangs from the range, in an effort to send them to greener pastures.
I feel her mane.
But as much as I admire all their work protecting those who can`t protect themselves, it makes me wonder: would they do the same thing if they were the ones who became endangered?
I`m talking about women. (more…)
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Burt’s Eye View: It Used to Be A Wonderful Life
by Burt PrelutskyWhen I was just a kid, I saw the stage musical, “Peter Pan,” starring Mary Martin in the title role and Cyril Ritchard as Captain Hook. It is to this day the only version of that old war-horse I ever liked. I still don’t know why that story has retained its popularity since 1904. Even Walt Disney couldn’t work his magic on it.
What I remember best about the show, the tunes aside, is that at the point when Tinkerbell’s light was flickering, and she was supposedly at death’s door, the audience was urged to start clapping in the hope that our applause would somehow save her. Suddenly a woman seated behind me leaned forward and said, “Little boy, you aren’t clapping. Don’t you want Tinkerbell to live?”
“I know the story,” I told her. “She’ll live even if nobody claps.” (more…)
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‘Lie to Me’ Lies to Me
by Ben ShapiroI’ve criticized the show House in this space before. House is a main character who is beginning to cross the line from likable to crotchety, despite Hugh Laurie’s greatness. His sidekick, Wilson, is far more interesting dramatically. And the show itself is amazingly predictable: somebody has a seizure; opening credits; wrong diagnosis; commercial; wrong diagnosis; commercial; wrong diagnosis; commercial; correct diagnosis indicated by oblique reference in the B story; conclusion; end credits.
But at least House is well-written. It’s also a relatively balanced show, even though House himself is an open atheist. For example, Season Three of House featured two abortion episodes: “Fetal Position,” which was so pro-life that it included a mockup of the famous image of a baby’s hand holding an operating doctor’s; and “One Day, One Room,” an episode in which House convinces a raped patient to have an abortion. Despite the show’s overall liberal tilt (see Wilde, Olivia), there is at least an attempt to be evenhanded. (more…)
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AUDIO: Breitbart Interviews Emmy-Winning Actor Michael Moriarty
by Big Hollywood
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Andrew guest-hosted the Dennis Miller Radio Show this morning and our own Michael Moriarty joined him for a segment to discuss Obama, abortion, Hollywood and a host of other topics.
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What’s The Rush?!
by Victoria JacksonThe RUSH is what scares me.
“Impatience does not diminish but augments the evil.” (Latin proverb)
Okay, we all know that this global warming thing is a politically based, scientifically unproven, exaggeration based on greed, power and big government control. I just did my science term paper on it and science hasn’t found an accurate way to measure global climate yet. But, what if it is true that industry, production, coal use and automobiles are emitting too much poison into the atmosphere, and our earth is sensitive to this, being damaged by this, and that there is potential damage coming to our future generations…
…wouldn’t the logical, reasonable thing be to intelligently discuss the topic? Perhaps a televised debate between two respected scientists who have no political ties, who have opposite opinions on the climate change topic? Isn’t that the way civilized people approach problems?! (more…)
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Harry Reid and Slavery
by Joseph C. PhillipsThe classical poet A.E. Housman wrote, “For nature, heartless, witless nature.” He might have said the same thing about history, which like nature is neither cruel nor kind; right, nor wrong; it is simply indifferent. It has, as they say, no dog in the fight.
If, however, one is looking back and telling history, it might then be said that one is right or wrong about history. One might say as much about Senate Majority leader Harry Reid (D-NV), who was wrong about history in his remarks accusing Republicans opposed to Democratic healthcare reform of using the same stalling tactics as the defenders of slavery and Jim Crow.
In remarks intended to further paint the political right as immoral, racist and evil, Reid offered that, “Instead of joining us on the right side of history, all the Republicans can come up with is, ’slow down, stop everything, let’s start over.’ If you think you’ve heard these same excuses before, you’re right. When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said ’slow down, it’s too early, things aren’t bad enough.’”
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Lupe Velez: When Shame, Abortion and Suicide Collide
by Robert J. Avrech
Lupe Velez, The Mexican Spitfire.
The lives of Hollywood stars are frequently tragic and messy tales of absent fathers, cruelly ambitious mothers, and madly dysfunctional families.
Mexican-American actress, Lupe Velez (July 18, 1908 – December 13, 1944) “The Mexican Spitfire” was a beautiful, passionate, emotionally unstable woman best known for a series of 1930’s B movies in which she plays a delightfully scatter-brained character who speaks broken English mixed with streams of rapid fire Spanish.
Her first feature-length film was in the Douglas Fairbanks blockbuster, The Gaucho (1927), where she plays a high spirited Spanish dancing girl. Velez performed in a further eighteen films before settling into comedy—she had a Carol Lombard vibe, a flair for screwball situations, but her accent limited her appeal—most notably in the seven “Mexican Spitfire” series of films (1939-1943). (more…)
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Stopping ObamaCare: Who Has The Courage?
by Frank DeMartiniLast Saturday night, in what was mostly a procedural vote, the Senate approved moving forward with debate on the health-care reform bill. The vote was 60-39, the barest minimum necessary for debate to start in the Chamber. To listen to Harry Reid and his cohorts after the vote, you would think the Senate had just accomplished the greatest feat since the creation of man. What they really did was nothing . . . . . yet. (I’m sorry, maybe they did do something. It appears they bought the vote of Senator Mary Landrieu from Louisiana with a staggering amount of pork.)
Sometime after Thanksgiving, true debate in the Senate will begin. The pros and cons of Mr. Reid’s bill will finally be debated in front of the American public. But, will it be a true debate at all? Or, will it just be a front in which enough pork will be put into the bill to get the votes of Joe Lieberman, Mary Landrieu, Blanche Lincoln, and Ben Nelson; the four Democrats who must be swayed into Harry Reid’s pack of wolves. The same pack of wolves whose intent is ruining America under the guise of health care reform. (more…)
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INTERVIEW: Michael Moriarty On Obama, Palin, NBC, Beck and…Gutfeld?
by Alicia Colon[Editor's Note: This is a small portion of a comprehensive interview that originally appeared in the Irish Examiner on Monday, November 24th. You can read the full piece here.]
Recently I was sent an email complaining about the season premier of the TV Show, “Law & Order.” My correspondent asked what I thought about the plot in which the local Manhattan district attorney Jack McCoy prosecuted a former Justice Department lawyer for “depraved indifference murder” following the lawyer’s memo on the techniques which could be used on terrorists. An astonished “Executive Assistant DA Michael Cutter says, “Jack, you want to prosecute a member of the Bush administration for assaulting suspected terrorists?” To which, a cocksure “McCoy” declares: “The word is torturing. And, yes, it’s about time somebody did.”
The increasingly leftwing comments injected into the plots of this once fine show had turned me off many seasons ago and I answered my reader, “I haven’t watched that show much since they replaced Michael Moriarty as the lead in 1994.
Mr. Moriarty has always been one of my favorite actors and given that he is an Irish American, I thought he’d be the perfect lead off to a series of interviews with notable Americans of Irish ancestry. I was thrilled to be able to connect with Mr. Moriarty, who now lives in Canada, and he graciously agreed to this Q&A interview. (more…)
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Missing Michael Moriarty: 10/19/94 — The Night ‘Law & Order’ Died
by John NoltePerchance, just a few days after posting this piece about “Law & Order’s” jumping of the shark or nuking of the fridge — whatever the term is now — I came across the first five seasons of this once great television drama on DVD for a mere ten bucks each at – cover your eyes lefties – Walmart. Not having seen a single episode since their first run in the early nineties, there was no way to know how well it would hold up. But I bit the bullet, took a chance and for the next six weeks every free moment was devoted to devouring a hundred-plus episodes that told the story of the police who investigate crime; and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders.
dun DUN
Those early seasons aren’t as good as I remember, they’re better. Not every episode’s a home run, the first dozen or so struggle in search of the tone and pace that will eventually define the series, but afterwards nothing but a few drop below a standing triple — easily better than 99% of movies produced this decade.
Not to take anything away from the excellent work done by the rest of the cast, but the heart and soul of those first four seasons, what elevates the series into something truly unique and special, is Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner Michael Moriarty’s outstanding portrayal of Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone — a brilliant and fascinating character whose moral center anchors the show. (more…)
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