Producer's Desk

It is no exaggeration to call this gendercide. Women are missing in their millions—aborted, killed, neglected to death. In 1990 an Indian economist, Amartya Sen, put the number at 100m; the toll is higher now. The crumb of comfort is that countries can mitigate the hurt, and that one, South Korea, has shown the worst can be avoided. Others need to learn from it if they are to stop the carnage.

Financing the Health Care Bill

• Obamacare: Truth vs. Propaganda - The O-Reilly Factor
• CBO: National Deficit to Hit Nearly $10 Trillion Over Upcoming Decade - Associated Press
• Paul Ryan v. the President - Wall Street Journal
• Dissecting the Real Cost of ObamaCare - Wall Street Journal (subscription required)
• Back to the ObamaCare Future - Wall Street Journal
• Rebirth of a Nation - Newsweek
• Obama tops Bush at ducking reporters - The Washington Times
• What a Disaster Looks Like - Peggy Noonan
• Fifteen Principles for Successful Health Care Reform - ERLC

• Five ways to reform health care - Tim Pawlenty
• To the ObamaCare Barricades - Wall Street Journal
• Health Backlash in the States - Wall Street Journal
• The Mount Vernon Statement - Washington Times
• Al Qaeda hurts Muslims most - Washington Times
• Deadly Vanguards: A Study of Al Qaeda’s Violence Against Muslims - Combating Terrorism Center at West Point

• The Off-Center President - Peggy Noonan
• Charlie Wilson: In death, larger than life - USA Today
• The Eternal Stimulus - Wall Street Journal
• EDITORIAL: A deficit avalanche - Washington Times
• Vanishing Christianity — A Lesson from the Presbyterians - Albert Mohler
• STEYN: The ‘corpseman’ cometh - Washington Times

Yesterday, the Haitian government decided to charge 10 United States citizens with kidnapping and criminal association for attempting to take 33 Haitian children out of that devastated country to a place of safety and care. We are deeply dismayed and offended by this decision…

Come see Richard Land in Richmond, VA on Saturday, Feb 13.

He’ll be speaking at Grove Avenue Baptist Church at the In God We Trust conference. Other guests include, David Barton, Steven McDowell, Craig Parshall.

Register here. (Conference & lunch = $24, Conference only = $17)

Richard will broadcast Richard Land LIVE at the conference.

Why are groups such as the National Organization for Women (NOW), the Feminist Majority Foundation, the Women’s Media Center, and numerous “pro-choice” groups apoplectic over a Super Bowl commercial sponsored by Focus on the Family?

Clearly, the commercial’s subject matter has propelled it to the front ranks of controversy in the days leading to the Super Bowl. Entitled “Celebrate Family, Celebrate Life,” the ad purportedly (though none of the ad’s critics have actually seen it) tells the story of Florida All-American and Heisman trophy winner Tim Tebow and his mother, Pam.

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“Abortion rights activists have long preferred to hold themselves at some remove from the practice they promote; rather than naming it, they speak of “choice” and “reproductive freedom.” But those who perform abortions have no such luxury. Instead, advances in ultrasound imaging and abortion procedures have forced providers ever closer to the nub of their work. Especially in abortions performed far enough along in gestation that the fetus is recognizably a tiny baby, this intimacy exacts an emotional toll, stirring sentiments for which doctors, nurses, and aides are sometimes unprepared. Most apparently have managed to reconcile their belief in the right to abortion with their revulsion at dying and dead fetuses, but a noteworthy number have found the conflict unbearable and have defected to the pro-life cause.”

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Albert Mohler adds commentary…

Due to hazardous road conditions in the Nashville, TN area, Richard thought it best to keep our staff at home today.

We hope you enjoy anything from our archives or today’s “best-of” programs with guests Jarrod Jones here and Steve Waldman here.

RLL will be live again next Saturday, Feb 6.

Happy snow day!

• mympowerbox.com
• Newsflash: First Amendment Upheld - Wall Street Journal
• They Still Don’t Get It - Bob Herbert
• Health Care Is Hurting Democrats - Wall Street Journal
• Scott Brown’s victory is canary in the coal mine for Democrats - Ralph Reed
• The Once-Appealing Barack Obama - Peter Wehner
• The U.S. Isn’t as Free as It Used to Be - Wall Street Journal