The Pro-Life and Pro-Choice camps have made it fatally clear that they will not be swayed.  Try to open a debate between them, and you face the kind of selective deafness and audio autopilot that have become the hallmarks of seemingly unbridgeable idealistic gaps.  Both sides are quick to assure everyone that there is no [...]

Watching coverage of the protesters who brought assault weapons to Health Care rallies, I found myself imagining how I might explain the choice to a child.
“Why do those people have those big guns?”
“Because it’s their right to have them.”
“Are they mad because someone told them they couldn’t have them?”
“No, they’re protesting Health Care reform.”
“Will Health [...]