WORLD: Abortion Bullies and Double Standards

Don’t Cave to Bullies

Before reading about Karen Handel’s book deal to write Planned Bullyhood: The Truth about the Planned Parenthood Funding Battle with Susan G. Komen for the Cure, I’d never heard of her. I hadn’t followed the Komen-cuts-off-Planned-Parenthood backlash. After reading the book, it’s obvious that Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s former senior vice president of public policy was made the scapegoat. (Read or listen to Marvin Olasky’s interview with Handel from earlier this year.)

A Roman Catholic and a Republican, Handel rose quickly in Georgia politics, handling budgets and calling for ethical and financial reforms. She attributes her loss in the governor’s race to former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s endorsement of her GOP primary opponent, Nathan Deal, and the Georgia Right to Life opposing her. Handel says she’s pro-life, but makes an exception for cases of rape and incest.

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Race, Government, and God

If black, Chinese, Hispanic, Pakistani, Saudi, Vietnamese, and other students can have ethnicity-based groups at taxpayer-supported universities, why can’t white students? That question is at the center of a swirling “controversy” at Towson University in Towson, Md.

Towson student Matthew Heimbach proposed a new group: the White Student Union. “We want to replicate what every student union does on campus,” he told a CBS affiliate in Baltimore. Earlier, Heimbach created a group called Youth for Western Civilization. “We want to be able to promote on campus for students who want to be proud of their heritage and the foundations of this country and stand up for themselves.”

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