[Northern Yankee]

The author says... “Legal” abortion is a new form of slavery. It empowers one group of human persons to treat another group of human persons as property by denying them their fundamental human rights. Both slavery and abortion are rightly called in Catholic teaching “intrinsically evil”. They are a violation of the Natural Law written on every human heart. They must never be protected by the positive law as the subject of a human “choice” in any truly just society. Unfortunately, Chris Matthews did not make that point....

Chris Matthews doesn't want to make that point, otherwise it would put him in a very unattractive position.

[ought-six]

He was right about one thing: This country is pretty much at the same place it was just prior to the misnamed Civil War. The country is too polarized now, and getting moreso, such that any reconciliation short of one side unconditionally surrendering is probably not possible.

It is going to get interesting.