A few days ago, the Genocide Awareness Project staged a large demonstration at one of the most liberal universities in America, the University of California at Berkley. The display featured graphic photos of aborted babies set against images and quotations by President Obama in support of abortion. WARNING: The images are VERY graphic and disturbing, but they serve the same purpose as the "launchers" used by Wilberforce and the abolitionist movement in England in the fight against slavery -- to raise awareness of what we are doing to other human beings so we will be moved to change the law and make it stop. And those who remain stubbornly pro-abortion, after viewing such a powerful witness to its horrors, can no longer use the "I didn't know" excuse.
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By: Gina Dalfonzo|Published: March 18, 2010 5:12 PM
Many are working to bring the disparity in sentencing between cocaine and crack to an end. Pharmacologically they are almost the exact same substance. Personally, I think the disparity should be reduced a bit, but I also think that community-based treatment for non-violent offenders should be used on a much larger scale.
William Saletan of Slate observes that we're in a "war between the worlds": the world of reality and the world of virtual reality. The frightening thing is that some of the casualties in this war are not virtual casualties. They're real ones.
The compromise [Uganda] had accepted, which the president [Yoweri Museveni] presented as reconciliation, was actually something more complex and less sturdy. It was as if, having found themselves unable to forgive, his people had concentrated on forgetting, and when they’d failed at forgetting, they’d chosen to believe what they wanted to believe. So long as nothing disturbed their conception of the past or exposed them to scrutiny, the nation could continue its halting procession along Museveni’s chosen path. To the president’s way of thinking, therefore, justice was a threat to progress, not because it promised verdicts and punishments, but because it forced people to remember.
