I went to my first prom last night and had the time of my life.

My friend Tim Ellsworth and I were invited by Todd Perry, Executive Director of the Pujols Family Foundation to attend their third annual prom for young adults with Down syndrome:

Get dressed up and boogie! After such a successful event last year we had to this again! This event will be invitation only to people with Down syndrome, ages 16 and older. The Dance will be held at the Crowne Plaza in Clayton on October 23, 2009.

Though Albert had elbow surgery just this week, he and his wife Deidre lit up the room with beaming smiles, taking great joy in the fun everyone was having.

Special guest Fredbird, the St. Louis Cardinals’ mascot, led a dance line with hundreds of super-smiling kids joining in behind him.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch photographed the event, and put some pics on the front page…

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After Dr. George Tiller’s murder on Pentecost Sunday, much has been written about late-term abortion. Among the many comments are two you might not have run across, both from former abortion doctors, Bernard Nathanson and Mary L. Davenport.

Bernard Nathanson has previously been interviewed by Julia Duin, religion writer for the Washington Times, so in the wake of Dr. Tiller’s murder, she decided to re-interview Dr. Nathanson, a former abortionist who was at the heart of the pro-choice movement in the sixties and seventies:

Soon after late-term abortion doctor George Tiller was killed, I called one of his mentors, Bernard Nathanson. The former Jewish atheist who presided over 75,000 abortions - including that of his own child - in the 1960s and 1970s left the abortion industry upon the advent of ultrasound technology.

His now-classic video “The Silent Scream” shows an unborn child recoiling from a vacuum abortion device before being sucked to…