Reformed Chicks Blabbing

The Chinese will be driving in Hummers while we’ll be driving tin cans! General Motors has reached a preliminary agreement for the sale of its Hummer brand of large sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks to a machinery company in western China with ambitions to become a carmaker, a person familiar with the Chinese government…

William Saletan of Slate attempts to make the case that the pro-life community isn’t living up to our rhetoric. If we really believed the unborn and the born have equal standing, then we should be like Scott Roeder, stopping with deadly force the slaughtering of babies. If a doctor in Kansas were butchering hundreds of…

This mom is using her power for evil: A 51-year-old woman used guilt about her family’s difficult finances to get her young sons and their friends to help her pay bills by committing at least 20 armed robberies in the Phoenix area, authorities said. Cynthia Roberson, her two sons, ages 12 and 14, and five…

He tries to reassure an audience of Chinese students that their investments are safe and they laugh at him! U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Monday reassured the Chinese government that its huge holdings of dollar assets are safe and reaffirmed his faith in a strong U.S. currency. […] “Chinese assets are very safe,” Geithner…

I think it goes without saying that those of us who are in the pro-life community would condemn the killing of anyone, that’s the whole point of our movement. We value human life because it’s been made in the image of God and it is not our place to end it. One of the few…

I’m not surprised they backed down because they were facing a lawsuit that they couldn’t win, plus the media storm that descended on them was probably way too much: Broyles said he’s been fielding media calls nonstop. “It’s been hard to do anything else but to handle the phone calls and media interviews,” he said.…

In a new study they found that certain anti-depressants (Prozac, Paxil or Zoloft) can wipe out the benefits of using tamoxifen: Breast cancer survivors risk having their disease come back if they use certain antidepressants while also taking the cancer prevention drug tamoxifen, worrisome new research shows. About 500,000 women in the United States take…

It seems that the lefties are finally waking up to the fact that Obama is just another politician who doesn’t keep his promises. Ted Rall of all people is ticked that he isn’t getting hope and change but more of the Bush administration: We expected broken promises. But the gap between the soaring expectations that…

I agree with Matt Lewis that “Frank the Firefighter” is a useful tool for Republicans to fight emotionalism with emotionalism but they should also point out Sotomayor fails Obama’s empathy requirement: “I will seek someone who understands that justice isn’t about some abstract legal theory or footnote in a casebook; it is also about how…

Surely Gehenna has frozen over. Do you think this is one of the signs of the apocalypse? The White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships hosted adoption leaders from across the country Wednesday to talk about how to better serve the needs of kids in foster care. Kelly Rosati, adoptive mother of four and…

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