Chuck Norris: Would Mary have aborted Jesus?

THE FEBRUARY issue of The Progressive magazine has a couple of slapstick quotes that fit nicely into my last post. One is by D-movie actor Chuck Norris, who has been flitting around on the right as a preacher of sorts. His latest mini-sermon concludes that Mary, acting from shame, would have aborted Jesus had there been government health care during her out-of-wedlock pregnancy. Unable to shake off his trance-like thoughts, Norris asks: "Will Obamacare morph into Herodcare for the unborn?"

A second sidesplitter comes from a viper - an addled one at that - from North Carolina otherwise known as Rep. Virginia Foxx (R), who has fearfully locked her doors at night from the threat of an Obama health care reform bill. Warns a jittery Foxx: "I believe we have more to fear from that bill passing than we do from any terrorists right now in any country." But she temporarily forgot that risk when she got his autograph after Obama spoke to the Republican caucus. Yes, Virginia. There is a threat, and it is you.