Mind-stimulating Stuff on the Web

There's a chance I'm frying my brain reading through all this stuff, but if I didn't, I'd think the entire U.S. thought abortion, homosexuals wanting to be married, and communist healthcare were good ideas.  They're not, and I think I'm safe in saying most people think that way, but one has to dig to get to these types of conservative opinions.

To alleviate the digging, here's a list:

• Ken Blackwell discusses torture, the Geneva Convention and its lack of applicability to terrorists, and abortion in his column.
• My cousin, employed in the healthcare insurance industry, explains why socialized (socialized in the same sense of the word as the Soviet Union was a socialist country) healthcare is a guaranteed recipe for absolute failure.
• NTU is asking everyone to write their elected representatives and remind them that the masses (we the people) are not interested in cap-and-trade programs because they result in higher taxes.  It's always worth remembering something simple about taxes that is especially relevant when discussing things like cap-and-trade, which will supposedly only affect those evil businesses out there (so the liberals say).  If your local store sells widgets for $1.00, and they make a 25¢ profit off each such sale, which is optimum for them, that optimum profit level isn't going to change when the government enacts a 10% tax on business earnings.  The store will not continue selling widgets for $1.00.  They'll raise the price such that they still get 25¢ after the tax is collected.  What that means is that you, the consumer, will be paying $1.10 for your widget, but your salary won't have gone up.  Essentially, you are paying the tax.
• In a Fox News column, it is explained that colleges don't invite conservatives to speak at convocations and similar events.  Hardly a surprise, but the column makes some very interesting points about why that's important and why the treatment conservatives that do receive invitations are dealt is so indicative of people who haven't the slightest bit of civility or open-mindedness about them.