Since I did not catch this when it first came out, I’ve got to give my 2 cents now. Because I think most people like me were not aware of this and the way it shook up things in the music world some months back.

First check out Nick Cannon’s web site. Where he is still promoting the track “Can I Live”. Watch the video of the track there.

Basically this is a fantastic pro-life message. Apparently this song came out about 6 months ago or so and was praised by some Pro-Life blogs then. Of course this caused a stir in the mostly Liberal entertainment business and Liberal blogs were in disbelief that a fairly well known Hip Hop/R&B artist would actually show his mother appreciation for not aborting him killing him in the womb. As a result of the Liberal backlash and efforts by pro-lifers to embrace the effort, Nick took a bit of an “on the fence” stance. He mentioned afterwards that the issue of abortion (baby killing) is a personal decision and he was just speaking for his own situation. He did not want to be labeled as a pro-lifer. Regardless I say well done Nick. I can’t say I’m a fan of every one of his efforts. Like when he worked with “accused” child molester R. Kelly on this piece of trash. But it seems he got one right and I pray he does more similar efforts like “Can I Live”. You usually know you’re making a song that is “good” when you can put your own mother in the video!

On his other web site, he’s selling “Can I Live” T-Shirts. His video is full of kids wearing them. I think the message is clear that Nick is Pro-Life, but fears what it could do to his career. I feel his “Can I Live” efforts should be supported.

If you don’t know who Nick Cannon is, do you remember the movie Drumline? He’s the guy who was the star of that movie.

Fred Barnes was able to get Conservative Thinker Thomas Sowell to do a one on one interview on FoxNews recently. Like Mr. Barnes and other Conservatives, I really enjoy Mr. Sowell’s work. So I’ve made notes from the interview. In my notes I attempt to cover the major topics covered during the interview and Mr. Sowell’s general view on them. There was so much covered that it would be difficult to capture every word. Mr. Sowell brings up so many facts, figures and perfect analogies on the fly that it’s hard to keep up if you’re actually trying to document everything. So I’m hoping I’ve just captured the general points and my notes are in no way a fully detailed report of every single thing covered. But I’ve captured enough that I feel satisfied with sharing my notes here on the blog.
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The facts show the FISA Court that Liberals claim is so easy to get permission from has not been that way with requests from the Bush Administration.

While the Justice Department was trying to gain valuable intelligence information, the FISA court was playing games of delay, modify and deny! Bush did the right thing to by-pass them.

Hat tip to Drudge.

Related post: Presidents are required to use executive power to protect American lives

While listening to Bill Bennett’s radio show this morning he mentioned a Washington Post Op-ed by Liberal Democratic Senator Barack Obama and Conservative Republican Senator Sam Brownback.

The entire Op-Ed should be read, but here is an excerpt.

The piece offers details of how things are going adrift and suggest solutions. The most critical suggested solution will be:

The bottom line is this, if the USA does not start sending troops and initiate a full scale military effort things will fall apart. Despite the rest of the world’s lip service, they will watch as the people die. If the so-called “great Satan” of the world does not make a greater move to save lives things will only get worse. Mr. Bennett raised this point about the need for US troops. Take note, today Bill Bennett said something about helping Blacks who are in the most urgent of need. I wonder how many news shows will cover it?

I’ve written about the issues in the Sudan in this piece and pointed out how President Bush has mentioned it in this other piece.

I know for many Conservatives this proposed use of US Troops might not be acceptable. But consider that the Sudan was a haven for Bin Laden and China is now making strong overtures to the Sudanese government. The Op-Ed even mentions:

If noting is done about this situation, the area’s resources will become the tools of America’s enemies. Given the current government there that is already the case and getting worse. This is why China is working to do so much new trade with the government of Sudan. The Sudan has mass killings, a history of supporting terrorists and now is getting cozy with China. So I have no choice but to support the USA taking a stronger stand. We can either start stepping up efforts now or suffer the consequences of inaction.

Because if no more is done, the resulting death toll will look bad, but the support given to our enemies will make matters even worse for the USA and our allies.

update (12/27/2005 9:56AM ET): The Political Pit Bull also sees this op-ed as a positive act, while blog Narcissistic views on News/Politics has a different perspective on the motivations behind this op-ed being written.

One day after celebrating the birth of Christ it is sad that some people run to embrace a racially segregated “holiday”, daily straight into the New Year.

I must say, when growing up my mother and I looked into this “holiday” a bit and after attending a Kwanzaa celebration it was the last time we had much to do with it. My father never cared for it at all. After that I felt it was a good thing for some years. Just because it involved Blacks trying to help themselves. Then after learning more about the “holiday”, it’s true roots, it’s founder, my own faith, and history I realized it is a bad thing.
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