If only there were a game-show host to lead America's response to this crisis in a principled, predicable way.

Does anyone else appreciate the irony of an unapologetic fraud and con artist complaining about the narrative on both sides?

Venezuela was once one of the richest countries in South America. Chavez's "economic miracle" was nothing more than spending the country's money like a drunken sailor (only, as Reagan once said, at least a drunken sailor spends his own money). And everything was great, until the money ran out.

Like Castro, Chavez took a rich, vibrant country and turned it into a hell-hole. The inevitable result of their very similar policies was economic decline, impoverishment, and tyranny. And, if we vote in someone who admires and wants to implement those policies, that will be our result as well.

What [Ayn] Rand Meant by Altruism

Fraud, straight up. If an organization takes Title X family planning funds, it is supposed to provide contraception or referrals thereof. This anti-contraception organization is taking a Title X grant and violating its contraception requirement.

The Trump Administration Is Giving Family Planning Funds to a Network of Anti-Abortion [and Anti-Contraception] Clinics

Dickesode:

Woman’s explicit Christmas display draws outrage from neighbors: ‘It's certainly a statement‘

The Affordable, Effective Alternative to IVF No One Talks About

FD: I support making all forms of birth control OTC.

Do you guys know what drag queens do on Christmas?

Eat, drink and be Mary!

"Crows could be the smartest animal other than primates"

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191211-crows-could-be-the-smartest-animal-other-than-primates?ocid=global_future_rss

And the article doesn't mention this, but some crows can talk - like parrots!

"The Trump Administration Is Giving Family Planning Funds to a Network of Anti-Abortion [and Anti-Contraception] Clinics"

The link didn't work, mpetrie.

But the headline reminds me of what I posted in July 2018:

I saw Mona Charen (born in 1957) on PBS recently (Amanpour and Company) - and while what she said is somewhat remarkable, I suspect it's an act. That is, soon after the 11-minute mark, she "applauds" the fact that women are no longer stigmatized for wanting careers and/or for not wanting children, so that implies that she's all in favor of ACCESS to birth control, at least, but earlier, she makes it clear she's still blatantly anti-abortion. Does she not care that the 20 states that are ready and waiting to outlaw abortion (these get briefly mentioned in the interview) are hardly likely to do the logical thing and make it EASIER for poor women to get effective contraception? If anything, those states are going to make it harder. So just how sincere is she when she "applauds" women who want birth control?

(By contrast, in Midge Decter's 2001 book "An Old Wife's Tale: My Seven Decades in Love and War," Decter (born in 1927) acts perplexed at the idea that ANY couple would try to control if and when they would have children, compared to couples of her generation, who treated having children as natural and inevitable "as the rainfall." She's Jewish, so I don't know whether she considers birth control sinful or not. So is Charen, btw.)

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The correct link

Best thing I've read all day:

'If Santa knows if you've been good or bad then he knew that Rudolph was being bullied'.