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Standards.

Here’s all you need to know, really: Obama to deliver statement on IRS mess at 6pm ET, will feign outrage on behalf of conservative groups he’s demonized for 5 years. — Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) May 15, 2013 While we wait, let’s chew on some of the other claims of IRS bias out there. I’m leery [...]

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Life.

Was this a quid pro quo? I’m surprised that the court would allow a prosecutor to hold a death sentence over a defendant’s head to pressure him into giving up his right to appeal. Maybe it wasn’t: Dr. Kermit Gosnell was convicted Monday of first-degree murder in the deaths of the babies who were delivered [...]

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Decision.

Fox News and CNN are on alert as I write this: Per @cnn‘s @davidariosto: “The jury in the Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell case has reached a verdict on all 263 counts.” — Jason Seher (@jhseher) May 13, 2013 Stand by. Update: Like Ace, I think the fact that they were hung on two counts [...]

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Hmmm.

The jury for the trial of Kermit Gosnell has told the judge that the panel is deadlocked on two counts in the trial.  However, since the jury had to consider more than 200 counts against Gosnell and a co-defendant, this may be an indication that the jury has already concluded all of its other work: [...]

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Dawning awareness?

Americans may not be terribly aware of the trial of Kermit Gosnell,  but they are aware of who to blame for their ignorance. Gallup’s latest survey shows that only 25% of the public are following the trial somewhat or very closely, and only 33% of self-identified pro-life adults.  Fifty-five percent of adults aren’t following the case at [...]

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Murder.

“Wait,” you say, “can’t he get the death penalty for kidnapping, imprisoning, and raping three girls over and over again for 10 years?” Why, no. Our Supreme Court, in its wisdom, decided a few years ago that it would amount to cruel and unusual punishment to give the needle to a degenerate like this “merely” [...]

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Really.

Via the Examiner, “really disgusting” but with a caveat: “When we talk about reproductive health for women, that’s not what we’re talking about.” Except that it is: The difference between what Gosnell did and what late-term abortionists idolized by the left do is a matter of about 10 minutes and 10 inches between the inside [...]

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Objections.

I’m glad. I’d much rather see a roll-call vote on this than have it fly under the radar by passing with unanimous consent. I trust some pro-choice Democrats were hoping that would happen so that they could plead later that they were caught napping by Lee’s attempt to “hotline” the bill and would have/should have [...]

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Hmmmm.

On the one hand, he’s facing 258 counts ranging from murder to racketeering. Patience. It’s going to take time. On the other hand, per Life News, 227 of those counts are for failing to allow 24 hours before an abortion for the patient to reconsider. The jury will probably dispose of those as a group, [...]

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“Why would a dead baby feel pain?”

Give CBS News credit for putting this on the front page of their website, prompted perhaps in part by their local affiliate’s coverage of the trial.  Thanks to the surprise decision by the defense to rest their case without presenting any witnesses, the jury heard closing arguments in the murder trial of Kermit Gosnell and [...]

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Powers: Gosnell is "no aberration."

Via Kathryn Jean Lopez at The Corner, Lila Rose gets straight to the heart of why the media didn’t want to cover the Gosnell trial — and why they won’t want to cover what happens in other late-term abortion clinics, either.  They don’t want to see the brutality or the inhumanity, and the culture sanitizes [...]

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Because, obviously.

The defense presented their closing arguments in the Kermit Gosnell murder/infanticide/corruption of minors/solicitation/and etcetera trial on Monday, but not without the inevitable baseless crack at the prosecution’s true motives. Unfortunately, you probably knew this was coming: Defense lawyer Jack McMahon delivered his closing argument on behalf of abortionist Kermit Gosnell on Monday, accusing prosecutors of [...]

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Perspective.

By “them,” he means the LiveAction people who exposed him, not doctors who’d leave a live-born infant to die on a table because that’s what mommy wants. Guy Benson wrote about this in the Greenroom but it deserves some attention on the front page. When a patient is seeking a late-term abortion, he said, he [...]

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"This wasn't a baby moving!"

After more than a month of prosecution testimony on the eight counts of murder and other charges against Kermit Gosnell, the judge in the case — at the request of the defense — decided to throw out three of those murder charges on Tuesday, concurring that there wasn’t enough evidence to conclude that those babies [...]

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Avoidance.

The Gosnell bit starts at 3:00 but you should watch from the beginning or else you’ll miss him saying how he felt “personally responsible” to demand more gun regulation after the Newtown shooting. Does he feel personally responsible to demand tighter regulations of late-term abortions, too? (“If it saves just one life…”) That question never [...]

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Choice.

Former abortion clinic worker James Johnson testified today during the murder trial of Kermit Gosnell and provided jurors with a nauseating account of the horrific conditions at the abortion facility… His job was to collect abortion remains and take them to basement — but he eventually refused to participate and bags began piling up. He [...]

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"Certainly, the things that you head and read about this case are unsettling."

Via the Weekly Standard, a little something from yesterday afternoon that got sidetracked after the attack in Boston. Carney’s technically correct here — a president’s comments about a pending state criminal proceeding risk producing a mistrial, as Richard Nixon once almost learned the hard way. But wait: “I cannot comment on an ongoing murder case.” [...]

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Plus, the many trophies of Kermit Gosnell.

Or perhaps more to the point, there has been a media blackout on the atrocities placed in evidence at the trial of accused serial killer Kermit Gosnell.  Is that term too strong?  Before we get to Kirsten Powers, let’s check in with the latest from the trial testimony, brought to us by LifeNews.  Yesterday, the jury [...]

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Only if you don't look very hard.

Call this The Mainstream Media Empire Strikes Back.  After an avalanche of criticism over their failure to pay attention to the trial of Kermit Gosnell, the national media began pointing fingers back at their conservative-media critics and accused them of ignoring the story, too.  Washington Post reporter Paul Farhi dove into Lexis-Nexis to accuse The Weekly [...]

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Hiding the decline.

Documentarian Phelim McAleer and his wife recently produced the film FrackNation, which presented the largely unreported truth about hydraulic fracturing — that it’s safe, it’s tremendously useful, and the horror stories told by its opponents are mostly fantasy. Phelim stumbled across another largely unreported story about a real horror, and my friend offered to tell it to [...]

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Media matters.

Something truly remarkable happened yesterday. After days and weeks of pushing by New Media and social media, the mainstream media has not only admitted that they should have covered the ongoing capital murder trial of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, they have promised to immediately remedy that mistake… This is not the usual-usual from our media. [...]

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Medicine.

“If Dr. Gosnell had walked into a nursery and shot seven infants with an AR-15, it would be national news and the subject of presidential hand-wringing,” said Rep. Smith… “Will the decades-long major national news media cover-up of the brutality—and violence—of abortion methods ever end?” Rep. Smith continued. “Will Americans ever be told the horrifying [...]

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Distinctions.

Proof positive that we’ve reached a new phase of Gosnell damage control. Plan A: Ignore, ignore, ignore. Plan B: If Plan A becomes impossible, use Gosnell as some sort of exception that proves the rule about why, counterintuitively, America needs easier access to abortion. #Gosnell case is appalling. He ran a criminal enterprise, not a [...]

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Change.

Blogworthy not just because it complements the Gosnell coverage but because this old post kicked off two days of arguments in the comments about whether Americans really were becoming more pro-abortion over time. That trend fit with various other trends towards social liberalization, starting with gay marriage, and with post-election claims that the long-touted Democratic [...]

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