Daniel Allott
“We’re facing the most important election in my lifetime.” — Gore Vidal, November 6, 2006 THE EXPRESSION PERVADES political discourse every election season. In its best form it is accompanied by a list of proofs but is just as often…
Earlier this year, a British couple caused an uproar after subjecting their daughter to cosmetic surgery. The couple’s daughter, Georgia, was forced to undergo “radical and painful” surgery three times before she was five years old in order to improve…
The Democratic Party has an abortion problem. Barack Obama, its presumptive presidential nominee, has compiled what one TAS writer described as a 110% pro-abortion record. The extra 10 percent comes from having twice voted against legislation to protect babies born…
According to Barack Obama, Gianna Jessen shouldn’t exist. Miss Jessen is an exquisite example of what anti-abortion advocates call a “survivor.” Well into her third trimester of pregnancy, Gianna’s biological mother was injected with a saline solution intended to induce…
“You wanna’ criminalize women and their doctors and we disagree. …You would want to put every doctor and every mother as an accessory to murder in prison.” So roared Bill Clinton, who, campaigning for his wife recently in Steubenville, Ohio,…
“I’m in the same position now that I was 12 years ago, when I ran for mayor, or as mayor, which is personally opposed to abortion, don’t like it, hate it, would advise that woman have an adoption, rather than…
When Rudy Giuliani took the stage last Friday at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., he did so to an overflowing crowd of mainly young, socially conservative activists. But, while his nearly hour-long speech touched on a…
There I was, just two days before Christmas, making my way through the over-crowded shops to pick up a few last minute Christmas gifts. It’s a situation I’d been in many times before. This time, however, something was different. Upon…
Jan Egeland, head of United Nations humanitarian operations, describes the region as “going from real bad to catastrophic” and “headed toward total chaos.” The top U.N. aid official says the level of violence faced by humanitarian workers is “unprecedented.” U.N….
The Bush Administration’s recent willingness to address ethnic cleansing in Sudan more actively suggests that, in the face of genocide, strategic and humanitarian interests never clash. It was only a few weeks ago that those of us who have been…
