Let's Pull the Plug on Granny

Anyone who doesn't find this disturbing is either a teenager who doesn't believe they will ever get old, or someone who is certifiably insane. Disturbing is an understatement. The word should be evil, because that's exactly what this is - evil!

Evil is word not often heard anymore. The people that consider themselves the "intellectual elite" would not use the word. They consider themselves to be above all that superstitious mumbo jumbo.

American Thinker has the lowdown on this reprehensible article.

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I was wrong last week when I declared that Newsweek's cover showing a baby next to a headline declaring that we're all born racist was evidence that the mainstream media had hit bottom and destroyed itself. It was intellectual arrogance on my part that led me to underestimate the determination of Newsweek's editors to find new deeper bottoms to hit.

This week's Newsweek cover exceeds the sheer breathtaking ugliness of last week's cover: "The Case for Killing Granny." Alongside a photo of an electrical plug. The cover story is penned by Evan Thomas, (Andover, Harvard, Virginia Law), currently teaching at Princeton, alongside Peter Singer, who believes newborn infants can be killed because they lack "rationality, autonomy, and self-consciousness" and thus don't qualify for personhood.

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