Two Points

1. I thought Peggy Noonan's column last week about the election was pretty good, especially this point:  negative ads became boring, unpersuasive. Forty years ago they were new, exciting in a sort of prurient way. Now voters take for granted that politicians are no good, and such ads are just more polluted water going over the waterfall. The biggest long-term loser: liberalism. If all pols are sleazoid crooks, then why would people want to give them more governmental power to order our lives? The implicit message of two generations of negative ads: Vote conservative, limit the reach of the thieves.
   
2. We attended a charity dinner Sat. night (Bobbins should put pictures up soon) at which Dr. Clenard Childress was the featured speaker.  He made the provocative and in my estimation accurate point that the pro-life movement is the civil rights movement of the 21st century.  Not that it should really matter, but Dr. Childress is a black Christian pastor.  He cited MLK and the bible, of course, but also the Founders and Mother Theresa.  Very inspiring talk.