What a month January was! Virgin Hall made its initial debut at Full Circle Book Store in Oklahoma City. Full Circle, owned by Jim Tolbert, is one of those wonderful, chock-full-o-books stores with fireplaces, good coffee, and a café manned by people who know what’s between the covers. Since OKC is my home town, the [...]
Abortion, Public Policy & the Consequences of Myopic Focus
The publicity surrounding the support of Planned Parenthood by the Susan G. Komen Foundation brings into stark reality the truth pro-abortion/anti-abortion controversy. In that form it doesn’t exist. No one is pro-abortion. It is always a last and often desperate option. The revulsion, whether religiously inspired or not, toward the act is fully understandable. In [...]
Where Are We Now?
For women like me, who came to maturity before the 1960s, the specter of illegal and unsafe abortion is as much of a horror as the reaction of those who view a terminated pregnancy as murder. In those days there was no “pill” and the only means of obtaining a contraceptive device was through a [...]
The Word Plastic
Every once in a while I meditate on the word plastic. I always want to pronounce it the way the French do, plastique. This in turn brings up an image of some sort of gooey gel used to blow things up. Plastic—malleable, easily formed—that was the original meaning of the word and somehow it has [...]
Answer to a Constant Complaint
The news media is always whining that the Occupy Wall Street movement is not specific about their aims and demands. I have a simple answer for them: GET THE INSURANCE COMPANIES OUT OF MY HEALTH CARE And GET THE NEWS MEDIA OUT OF MY ELECTIONS The first one is relatively easy to understand and would [...]
Listen Up Liberals!
It’s time to educate yourselves by consulting a conservative. No, you don’t have to listen to Beck, Hannity, the various Foxes or any of those people. You don’t even have to read David Brooks, but he is an old dear who actually says something original upon occasion. Grab that lefty rag, the New York Times [...]
