It looks as if Rick Warren is now being taken to task by some in the prolife community for giving the invocation at President-elect Obama’s inauguration.

I don’t think this type of opposition to Warren is wise. The bottom line is that Barack Obama will be our president for the next four years. There’s just no getting around that, folks. And if every prominent prolifer shuns Obama, then he will have zero incentive to listen to our concerns.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I have no illusions about what an Obama presidency will mean to the prolife movement. It’s not going to be pretty. That having been said, I see no harm in Warren playing a small role in a historic event, when doing so may allow him to be an effective advocate for the prolife community over the next four years.

Monserrate is, of course, the Democratic NY state Senator arrested last week for carving up his girlfriend’s face with a broken beer bottle: and state Senator Martin Golden (R) is now calling for him to delay taking the seat “until his felony assault case is resolved.  Which the Democrats won’t do, of course: the balance of power in the Senate precludes it, and it’s not like the woman actually lost her eye.

It cannot be confirmed, by the way, that New York Democrats are in fact inquiring about what said girlfriend was wearing at the time of the attack.

Linked to before I have (yet) read it.  Because Dave Barry is just that good.

And this committee can apparently get blood from a stone, or, rather, conjure money out of thin air.  I will look forward to their “announcements.”

You can’t expect the military to show the same enthusiasm towards the former as they do the latter.  Not that the troops and their families were rude, or anything; merely… well, when Obama appeared, they applauded.  And then they stopped.

Hey, it’s still a step up from Bill Clinton, right?  Probably a step down from what Hillary could have expected, but that ship has sailed.

Surely you don’t expect her to just give away her family’s money to every grubby little New York politico that might want it.

Really, Democrats: simply accept the fact that your betters have decided that this seat is entailed to a Kennedy, and stop wasting all of our time with your laughable delusion that your Party is obligated to care about your needs.  After all, what were you planning to do?  Vote Republican?

Based on what we saw of Fitzgerald’s propensity to criminalize things he didn’t like during the Scooter Libby affair this rings true. But now that doesn’t mean the left shouldn’t have the benefit of the full joy of Fitzmas.

“[North Korea would] not merely turn everything into a sea of fire but reduce everything treacherous and antireunification to debris and build an independent reunified country on it.”

North Korean armed forces minister Kim Il Chol, threatening a massive retaliation should South Korea and the United States attack his country.

Their rhetoric sure has changed since President Bush and SecState Rice unilaterally took them off the state sponsors of terrorism list, didn’t it?

Never fear, though; while making concessions like that (and others), Rice knew all along that “”only an idiot would trust the DPRK.”

Judge Keith Rollins and court and city employees at the Douglasville municipal courthouse are being sent to “sensitivity training,” and signs “advising visitors of court decorum” will be posted around the building, after Rollins ordered Lisa Valentine, a Muslim, to serve a 10-day sentence for contempt of court after refusing on to comply with courthouse rules mandating the removal of “headgear” and cursing at court officials, according to the Associated Press.

“Kelley Jackson, a spokeswoman for Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker, said state law doesn’t permit or prohibit head scarfs,” said an AP report at the time of the incident. “‘It’s at the discretion of the judge and the sheriffs and is up to the security officers in the court house to enforce their decision,’ she said.”

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