I graduated college 4 years ago mercifully apolitical. I say mercifully because had I gone to a non-Christian college I would probably have been subjected to the PC left-wing nonsense discussed by Dennis Prager, Mike Adams, and others. Not that I think I was ever that gullible, but anyway, graduating from a university with your head on straight seems to be an achievement these days.
    
    So how did I get to be a talk radio/blog addict? Best I recall it was due to Tammy Bruce's The Death of Right and Wrong. Browsing a mall bookstore, I looked through it, and finished reading it right in the bookstore that week. (I recently bought it in paperback and read it again.) Tammy's Thesis is that much of various left-wing activists are animated by a past psychological trauma and seek to make American culture similarly damaged and thus to fit in, not by healing themselves but by spreading their victimhood status. She terms this "malignant narcissism", and the examples given, probably familiar to most people by now, were justly shocking in my naiveté: fighting for freedom for cop-killers, portraying crap as art (literally), pushing deviant sexual behavior in schools, etc. As I said, it's in paper back now, and I'd advise a read, obviously.

    But I had and have one big problem with Tammy's position, as much as I respect her integrity for writing a book that will likely lose her all her old friends. Not her homosexuality, though I believe that homosexual behavior is deeply damaging to themselves and society. However, she works against the promotion of this lifestyle by writing books such as this, and in our free and just society, people such as her are free to practice their vices. Her sexuality, (which I must admit I know nothing about, other then the title she gives herself) doesn't make her arguments hypocritical.

   But her sustained pro-choice position does. Malignant narcissism is pretty spot on description for choosing abortion. I understand that pregnancy is... uncomfortable. 6 months straight of discomfort, perhaps, and followed by several hours or so of considerable pain. But is this pain worth another person's life? Forget the rhetoric about the onset personhood (or better yet, read Ramesh Ponnuru's Party of Death and see all these silly arguments taken down). Abortion is an action that ends a human life, and for what reason? Because the woman doesn't want to be uncomfortable for a while. And it came about due to her actions. (Please don't bring up rape, tragic but statistically insignificant number of pregnancies.) This is a definition of malignant narcissism if anything is!

   But worse. Sorry Tammy, but fighting for this so-called right for 20 or 30 years is a cause of the problem you rightly lament. If you tell women that they should have the power of life and death of their growing babies, and no man nor law should have a say in the matter don't be surprised if they end up narcissists.

   Well, back to me (speaking of narcissism, benign I assure you). After reading this book, I got more interested in what was going on in the world. I found Dennis Prager, as I remembered my dad used to listen to "this smart Jewish guy" (as I remembered) and from there Townhall, Hewitt, etc.  So that's how I got from there to here, though the seeds of conservatism were no doubt my lifelong Christianity and common sense, the fruits of which I plan to post here for a while. Welcome, and feel free to comment.