Dr. Paul: “We must reject amnesty for illegal immigrants in any form. We cannot continue to reward lawbreakers and expect things to get better.”

Dr. King: “An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. … Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. … One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ‘an unjust law is no law at all.’”

Dr. King wins.

Eponym: “IMO, it isn’t a human life that should be provided the protection of law until it has a functioning cognitive brain.”

Whether it’s “a human life” or not, since when did people at any stage of development get the right to live their human lives by commandeering the use of your internal organs against your will?

The problem with Roe v. Wade is that it’s not pro-choice enough.

Thanks for this post. One correction, though:

“The Libertarian platform, which speaks to harming no other’s life or property, is silent (at this time) on the issue of abortion.”

Here’s the Platform as of the 2004 Convention, section 20 http://www.lp.org/issues/platform_all.shtml#womerigh:

“Recognizing that abortion is a very sensitive issue and that people, including libertarians, can hold good-faith views on both sides, we believe the government should be kept out of the question. We condemn state-funded and state-mandated abortions. It is particularly harsh to force someone who believes that abortion is murder to pay for another’s abortion.”

This plank has come under concerted attack from those who believe that the government has a right to commandeer women’s wombs for the benefit of fetuses they don’t want (most of them have aimed at getting the platform silent on this point, in the name of “not being controversial” or somesuch). But as far as I know, it’s still there for now.

Stephen, I’m glad to hear that Jimmy Carter is taking a public stand against Bush’s Charles I imitation. Good on him. But what’s having (or not having) two testicles got to do with anything?

Hamilton: “To say that Carter was the worst President in history is putting it mildly.”

If you can’t remember any Presidents from before 1976, maybe.

Given that the office of the Presidency has hosted several active slavers, at least one genocidaire, and arch-segregationist admirers of the Ku Klux Klan, I’d have to say this seems rather like American historical myopia at its most ridiculous.

Hamilton: “Nixon ended the war …”

After escalating it for the entirety of his first term. Come on. You won’t find any love for LBJ here, but there are in fact some evils in the world that Democrats didn’t cause.