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A pro-choice reporter who has been present in the courtroom listening to testimony in the Gosnell trial has changed his mind on abortion, according to one of his fellow reporters. “That's the power of the Gosnell trial,” reporter JD Mullane told former Gov. Mike Huckabee during a recent appearance on the Huckabee Show. Mullane, a pro-life columnist for the Bucks County Courier Times, has been present in the courtroom from the very beginning of the Gosnell trial. His regularly-updated Twitter account has become the go-to place for breaking updates on the case. “There is one journalist sitting in that courtroom...

As we've noted, the liberal media generally and the Big Three broadcast networks in particular have studiously avoided paying attention to the Kermit Gosnell murder trial. The Philadelphia abortionist is charged with murdering newborns who survived abortion attempts and were born alive. But aside from the criminal aspect of the case, there's other angle in the Gosnell matter that is of interest to political observers of the 2014 election cycle, particularly the Pennsylvania governor's race. One of the Democrats vying for the nomination to challenge Gov. Tom Corbett (R) is Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.), who operated an abortion clinic from...

Unless they act, the baby boomer generation has a rendezvous with ignominy. Two reasons: the bungled prosecution of the present war, and the coming collapse of Medicare and Social Security. If the boomers — who pretty much run everything now — don’t act, these stunning twin failures will come to define the generation in American history. Long after the boomers are dust in the wind, historians will ponder: How did this generation of Americans so badly misjudge the threat and screw up the pursuit of their enemies? They will wonder: How did brainy Bill Clinton, the first boomer president, fail...