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There’s a new pro-life pledge out for Republican presidential hopefuls, this time from Personhood USA. It joins The Susan B. Anthony List’s pledge and Mitt Romney’s personal pledge in what is becoming an increasingly crowded field.

Notably, this pledge differs from the SBA List’s in that it is much more a statement of belief than a list of actions, and also in that it centers on personhood, whereas the SBA List’s has a strong emphasis on pain-capable unborn child protection act, which has some issues. Also, more candidates have signed the SBA List’s pledge (it being significantly older). Only Bachmann, Santorum, and Gingrich have signed the Personhood pledge, while all of those three as well as Paul and Perry have signed the SBA List’s.

The key strength of these pledges is that they act as firm statements from those who sign them, allowing us to better understand their positions and beliefs. Unfortunately, pledges cannot be used to pass any sort of judgment on those who do not sign them, as there can be a host of reasons not to; for example, Huntsman simply doesn’t sign pledges. In the end, pledges are helpful, but only additive.

Update:

Both pledges are now on equal footing, with five of the seven major candidates having signed them, and of those seven, only Romney and Huntsman abstaining.

180: Changing the Heart of a Nation is a prolife documentary produced and directed by Ray Comfort, an evangelist and author. Originally from New Zealand and a self-proclaimed “Jew who was open to Jesus Christ”, Comfort has written over 65 books and tracts and produced several films. His latest project however, might be his greatest work yet.

180 takes deep a look into the mind of average Americans. The film opens with a simple question: who was Adolf Hitler? You’re thinking, “Who wouldn’t know the answer to that question?” Prepare to be blown away. You see every type of people, and each have a different way of looking at things. A college kid who has very little clue about the subject; a Russian who lost relatives in WW2; a Neo-Nazi who believes that everyone should have spiky blue hair and hates Jews and Christians. The point isn’t where you’re from, what you know or don’t know, it’s what you believe. And Comfort finds that few actually know what they believe. Take a look:

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Contrary to expectations, Initiative 26 was defeated by a substantial margin in Mississippi on November 8th, leaving many among the pro-life community wondering, “who killed the personhood amendment?”

Leading up to the vote, the liberal media wrote up a veritable storm of fear-mongering material lambasting the initiative as dangerously ambiguous and very unambiguously dangerous. The net result was an overwhelming image of a religiously motivated, almost cult-like push to destroy women’s rights and ban all birth control. With a significantly quieter pro-life media presence, the public was given little opportunity to hear the truth of the matter. Misinformed and intimidated, voters had little motivation to vote in favor of the Personhood Amendment.

But the true killer is not the liberal media, not the expected enemy; rather, Initiative 26 was destroyed from within, cut down by the pro-life movement itself. Read the rest of this entry »

Stunningly simple. Starkly beautiful. These are descriptors I never expected to apply to legislation, yet now, presented with Mississippi’s Initiative 26, I find an uncontainable admiration welling up inside of me. Across the liberal media, there is a concentrated attempt to stir up fear over this initiative by claiming that it will ban abortion (even when the life of a mother is at stake), birth control, and probably even sex. This is not merely inaccurate, but unfair; the beauty of Initiative 26 is that is simply a definition—a definition that will turn the entire abortion debate on its head.

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Herman Cain Ad

Within the Tea Party, it is in vogue to dismiss the Occupy Wall Street movement as a disorganized rabble of whining college students with an overblown sense of entitlement. Despite their common anti-establishment foundations, every effort is made to put down the Occupy movement on the basis general unintelligence or a lack of a goal, with the general sentiment from the Tea Party and associated conservatives being that Occupy has no future. So here is my plea to all of my fellow conservatives out there: don’t underestimate Occupy Wall Street. You can mock it all you want, but you’re missing the point: Occupy Wall Street is uniquely positioned as the people’s movement—first and foremost anti-establishment, with actual goals only a secondary cause—for our age of anarchism, and it is not to be taken lightly.

Similarly, it is easy to write off Herman Cain as a flavor-of-the-week candidate, with no more real chance for success than real understanding of basic political issues. Clearly, Herman Cain is completely out of his depth when it comes to foreign policy, health care, or even the economy. When it comes to abortion, the once widely-regarded-to-be pro-lifer has recently run amok, demonstrating a complete inability to handle the issue: while he has consistently claimed to be opposed to abortion, his position on how abortion policy should be set is entirely up in the air, with him being either basically pro-choice or just ambivalent to law in general. I wouldn’t take any of what he says too seriously, though, because it seems that he doesn’t settle on a viewpoint until after a few clarifications. Yet despite his general political incompetence, Herman Cain is not a candidate without future; rather, his strength lies in his ignorance. In the video above, Herman Cain gives us a glimpse into his primary appeal. Rather than emphasizing his political competency, he chooses instead to call upon the anarchist tendency of modern society. In conjunction with his ignorance, he then is the ultimate outsider—in no way a member of the establishment, and at the heart, an anti-establishment populist. Herman Cain, like the Occupy Wall Street Movement, possesses a key quality that no other candidate, even the ever libertarian Ron Paul, has: he is the people’s candidate, a populist for this new age of anarchism.