Three Days Never to be Forgotten.(National Right to Life Committee)

"Your world was shaped in the first 24 hours after conception. ... Just five years ago, this statement would have been heresy. Mammalian embryos were thought to spend their first few days as a featureless orb of cells." -- From "Your Destiny, from Day One," Science, July 4, 2002

"These days, somebody taking a good hard look at partial-birth abortion, or contemplating the prospect of using embryos to create body parts, can scarcely escape the feeling that we're no longer looking down that slippery slope but up. Yes, we've come a long way since Roe v. Wade. A long way down." -- Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial page editor Paul Greenberg, speaking at NRLC 2006

"What this means is that 83% of those surveyed want some kind of restriction on the unfettered access to abortion." -- Pollster and author Kellyanne Conway, also speaking at NRLC 2006

I am an avid sports fan and a multi-tasker's multi-tasker. Even as I am writing this editorial, I am sneaking a peak at my favorite baseball team whose games I can watch in real time on my computer.

Spending as much time as I do in the stands or glued to my computer screen, I know that sports reporters are almost as prone to cliches as are the unimaginative reporters who cover the world of politics. But there is one generalization that actually holds true in almost all cases: "Energy" goes a long way toward explaining why one athletic performance surpasses another.

But that insight isn't confined to sports. It also applies to most other endeavors. That's why 15 minutes into the opening session of the 2006 NRL Convention I knew in my heart this was going to be a three-day gathering to remember.

Whatever are the almost mystical ingredients that explain that overused but accurate idiom "chemistry," they were there in abundance beginning at 10:00 am, June 22, at the Sheraton Music City Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. Whatever it wasbuzz, enthusiasm, buoyancy, oomph, passionit unmistakably filled the air as pollster and author Kellyanne Conway addressed the audience at the opening general session.