International Women's Day was observed this week by the mighty and the lowly around the world. One signifincant group of women were missing from the celebration, according to a new UN Development Program study.

The worst nightmare of racists and nativists is that nonwhites will "outbreed" the “the real Americans,” meaning whites. Actually that’s happening already, and the cross-over date when the minorities of today – black, Asian, Hispanic -- will be the majority and the whites the minority is no further off than the middle of the 21st century.

Should health care reform pass, it seems, from what some are saying, that pregnant women across the country will be running out to get abortions. It will be as if abortion became legal all over again!

The Chicago Tribune reports that there was a meeting in the White House last Monday on pushing ahead on immigration reform. No doubt President Barack Obama is feeling the pressure from restless Hispanics, unhappy that his health care reform has pushed back work on immigration reform. On Sunday, March 21, they’ll be rallying in front of the Capitol to get it moving again.

To combat climate change and get the middle east oil monkey off our backs, the U.S. is going to have to take a hard look at developing alternative fuel and energy sources. So where is the alternative energy going to come from in the future? Vast windfarms? Solar-paneled prairies? How about thousands of U.S. rooftops?

Today's bipartisan meeting on health care reform at the White House had Americans wondering if it was all a show or if the (small d) democratic process of debate and give-and-take is still possible.

Joseph Stack, the Austin, Texas suicide plane-bomber, another example of our homegrown terrorism problem, left a suicide note that was an odd admixture of left and right wing resentment, its most glaring characteristic a seething anger toward government and that most obviously directed toward the Internal Revenue Service.

Most people when they hear proposals for immigration reform think about doing something about the 11 million “illegals” in this country. Solutions run from sending them back along with their U.S.-born kids to extending amnesty or “a pathway to citizenships” to the hard-working families.

As Bryan points out in a blog  post that has gotten a ton of comments already, my post about seeking cooperation and support between pro-life and pro-human dignity camps only has gotten a couple of comments. This seems to say to me that this is really just about politics and not the issues.