Elizabeth Edwards diagnosed with breast cancer. This is really awful. I'll be praying for her :(
Arafat Deathly Ill - Conflicting reports say he has died, or is still among the living. Some suspect poison. I do not like Arafat at ALL - he qualifies as a terrorist in my opinion - yet, one never wishes illness on anybody (see Elizabeth Edwards above - although I don't meant to compare her to Arafat!). Not to mention the fact that the PLO would be in great disarray following his death. Or maybe not. Who knows? The news is so confusing.
Attorney General John Ashcroft Likely to Resign - Well, the post-election cabinet shake-up has begun. I can't say I'm particularly sorry to see Ashcroft go. He was supposed to be a concession to the Christian right, but he has always been a lightning rod for controversy. Supposedly Marc Racicot, Bush's campaign manager, wants this position.
Hilarious Parody of MTV's "VOTE OR DIE!" P. Diddy. Okay, okay. Lay off the young people. But frankly, this was not the year of the youth vote, contrary to expectations. And it was not monolithic in support of Kerry; he got 54% to 44%.
Pertinent quotes:
Jonah Goldberg: Look I don't know what the final tally will be. But it's now clear that the youth vote just didn't show. The liberal blogosphere is grumpy and introspective about it. I love it for reasons I will be writing about for months to come. The cult of the youth voter remains, once again, the most absurd, bogus, childish, romantic and misguided joke of liberal American politics. Period.
JAMES TARANTO on OpinionJournal: Gee, what might've happened to all the young voters? Well, consider this: You're not allowed to vote unless you've passed your 18th birthday. In order to have any birthdays at all, you have to have been born. And over the past 30 years or so, many Americans have ended up not being born.
About.com lists the number of abortions in the U.S. each year starting in 1973, "based on assumptions by the Alan Guttmacher Institute." If we add up the numbers from 1975-86, we come up with approximately 17.5 million missing eligible voters between 18 and 29 years old. Exit polls found that voters this age who were born went for Kerry over Bush, 54% to 45%, while Bush had a majority in all other age groups. If it's true that women who have abortions tend to be more liberal than those who don't, then the unborn 18- to 29-year-olds likely would have favored the Democrat even more heavily.
Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision mandating legal abortion nationwide, was written by Justice Harry Blackmun, a Nixon appointee. Perhaps somewhere old Tricky Dick is smiling at how his judicial legacy helped the Republicans.
C'est exact.
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