Chris Matthews Latest Absurdity

Chris Matthews has claimed in essence that the pro-life position is something akin to Shariah law.  From NewsMax:

“...to have that notion that that [fertilized egg] would be a person under this personhood thing that Ryan’s pushing, and under the 14th Amendment rights, the platform that Romney’s running on. This is extremism. I say (to the) center right tonight, it's almost like Shariah."

Matthews went on to say Romney and Ryan would govern from a religious viewpoint. 

“We're going to run our country this way, to the point of making a woman's decision to have an abortion, her reproductive rights, as criminal, perhaps murderous.”

Aside from the usual hostility from the media to pro-life views, a few questions seem to be in order.

Shooting the Messenger - The Left's Only Enemy

Very interesting article in the Jerusalem Post by Caroline Glick titled "The Left's Only Enemy".  She begins with reference to Mahmoud Abbas, whom the left in Israel and the United States holds up as a moderate.  Writes Glick,

"The fact that Abbas was an inveterate Jew-hater who spent four decades in the senior leadership of a terrorist organization and whose doctoral dissertation was a long denial of the Holocaust, was brushed aside."

It is difficult for the left to define an enemy, particularly the Christian left.  What philosophical commitments lead particular individuals and groups to pretend evil does not exist is an open question I suppose.  Glick continues,  

"Abbas’s Israeli supporters are the core of far-leftists who brought us the phony peace process with the PLO. Two thousand dead Israelis later, and with no peace in sight, their camp is much smaller today than it was in 1993. But it is still dedicated. And it is overpopulated by members of the media".  (more)