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“The reason I haven’t written about Mr. Gosnell is the same reason Philadelphia journalists don’t write about homicide trials in Detroit” The butchery of infants born alive after abortions at the Philadelphia clinic run by Kermit Gosnell is gruesome beyond description, as described in my prior post, A Culture of Death is their choice. The details are not new. The horrific Grand Jury Report (h/t Dave Weigel) was issued over two years ago. Yet this mass murder, reportedly of 100 infants although only seven cases were charged, has been met with near silence by the mainstream media.

<p>In their zeal to slice and dice Oakland County's volatile electorate to maximal advantage, Republican state legislators may have landed one of their party's congressional stalwarts in the fight of his political life.</p> <p>U.S. Rep. Joe Knollenberg of Bloomfield Township, who formally launched his campaign for a sixth term Friday night at a GOP pep rally in Troy, was first elected to Congress in 1992. In the decade since, his district has drifted slightly to the left -- Bill Clinton carried it in 1996, and Al Gore fought George Bush to a draw there in 2000 -- but Knollenberg himself has scarcely broken a sweat in four reelection campaigns.</p>