PAUL GREENBERG on why the Pro-Choice movement will lose in the end: "The trick is to speak of fetuses, not unborn children. So long as the victims are a faceless abstraction, anything can be done to them. Just don't look too closely at those sonograms."

MICHAEL RAMIREZ: The problem with American culture.

ON THE RADIO this morning I heard that Washington D.C. is the "style capital" of the U.S., with residents spending an average of $254 per month on clothes. That's more than I spend in a year (to which my daughter will attest).

LITTORAL COMBAT SHIP: the Navy's new multi-mission coastal combat ship.