Connecting the Dots.
A day or two ago, I heard Daniel Shore on NPR pointing out the irony of Bush's speech about how "we have closed Saddam's torture chambers," when in reality, the same prisons and torture chambers have just reopened under new management.

Connecting Some Other Dots.
[These aren't connected with the dots above.] It occurred to me that maybe Republicans are so concerned about saving unborn children because they know that the national debt and the need for a monumental amount of environmental remediation will be passed on to children who have not yet been born. So they want to make sure there are plenty of extra children born to cover it.

This might explain why some of them are pro-life for zygotes, pro-death for criminals. It's not like the criminals will live long enough to pay much of the debt Republicans are racking up.