I am not concerned about crime stories, either, even though actual human beings died. They interest some people, but they are necessarily small scale. I am concerned with the big picture, and so should Townhall be. And the big picture is that we are in national decline precisely because of the philosophy and mentality of anti-abortionists: Irrational, emotional, rights-violating, putting parasites over humans.

The objective evidence indicates otherwise. The best you can do is make some inroads at the state level, but you have gotten all the low-hanging fruit. Most of those will eventually be thrown out by courts. And Personhood Amendments failed in the heartland of anti-abortionism: Mississippi. That's it, done. It's all decline for your movement from here.

Anti-abortionism is INCONSISTENT with freedom and individual rights. It seeks to enslave a woman to a fetus, to turn her into an incubator against her will. And people know it on some level, even though they weasel word their opinions in front of anti-abortion fanatics like yourself because they don't want to set you off. A fetus is not a person, wishing cannot make them something they are not, and by spending all this time on the issue, you are not only distracting attention away from other issues like Cantorcare, immigration, Islamism, and how government should be rolled back, but you are advocating for a principle that is in direct conflict with rolling back government.

Sure, Earl, that's it. It can't be that Townhall writers are rank incompetents at advocating for free markets and analyzing political issues from a free market perspective. It must be the case that I simply don't want to know that there were fetus feet in pickled jars or spine spinning or autonomic gasping or toilet flushing. Right, that's it, Earl, such things are naturally my greatest concern in life, and I'm really going to change my mind on abortion freedom because there was a gruesome abortion doctor somewhere doing these things. That must be my motive. It can't possibly be that after days of Gosnell running top story, I truly want Townhall to start focusing on the hot topics concerning our NATIONAL DECLINE.

Abortion freedom was the original state of affairs in this country. There were no anti-abortion laws until the 1800's. The anti-abortion movement has had its day, and those days are gone.

I am tired of Bush getting a free pass for his enormous evil because people like him or think he is a good guy. He talked to veterans and their families, he loved them, and he said pro-American things, so, gee, who cares if he destroys all of what he claims to love? His intentions seem good, so let's give him a gold sticky. He should have dropped out of the race to Steve Forbes.

rmt5, you don't know what you are talking about. Bush was a compassionate socialist ideologue. He failed ideologically, bureaucratically, fiscally, militarily, and existentially. He almost single-handedly destroyed the Republican brand and changed the country for the worse. His failures are directly responsible for the election of Obama and everything that Obama has done. He was not up to the task, and he knew he wasn't, but he insisted on getting into the seat of power anyway. He was a mediocrity who wanted to be loved for his good-heartedness. Then he surrounded himself with the worst possible advisors who flattered him, the Straussians. The scale of destruction left by him is enormous.

Doherty/Townhall, why is this the main story? Are you that intellectually defunct that you've got nothing else, ever? Are you incapable of analyzing real political issues? Most of you are very young, so the answer is probably "yes." You don't understand complicated things, so you harangue on the easy, concrete issues. While your country goes into real decline. If this Gosnell/late-term abortion angle doesn't manage to turn the tide of public sentiment, will you then drop it? Because that would seem to be proof that you lost and can never get the public to reject abortion. You are also calling millions of Americans monsters and murderers. Aside from it defying reality, I've noticed it's not going over well with the general population.

Exactly! He was not by any stretch of the imagination a good President. In addition to his compassionate socialism and being talked into a war of self-sacrifice (Iraq) by the Straussians, he is responsible for the financial crisis because he let his bureaucrats implement mark-to-market and had no clue what was going on. Then, when the markets went into a death spiral, he "abandoned free market principles to save the free market," i.e., implemented more socialism. He destroyed the GOP. He is a complete failure by all objective evidence, but the Straussians and his cheerleaders, including some gullible conservatives, want us to think that he was a good President despite everything because, shucks, he was such a good guy.

We have got to start rubbing it in people's noses that there is actually an Islamist movement and this attack was perpetrated by them. We have got to fill the silence that the left is leaving here and not let the left get away with painting the picture as a secular crime. Get in everyone's faces, make sure they hear that this was done by an Islamist sleeper cell, not a couple of lost boys who didn't feel they fit in.

He's actually German with an advanced science degree and in a relatively high position in the company. It is amazing how they compartmentalize logic and reason to work only. When it comes to politics, irrationality reigns.