For his phenomenal work convincing just enough Catholic voters that pro-abortion, pro-infanticide, pro-human embryo experimentation Barack Obama was actually pro-life, Catholic law professor Doug Kmiec was awarded an ambassadorship to the country of Malta, a group of Mediterranean islands off the southern coast of Italy.

Kmiec labored hard to earn that plum appointment, going so far as to rustle up a book, Can a Catholic Support Him? just 7 weeks before the 2008 election.

Sitting in a Panera cafe with winter boots on in the aftermath of Chicago's first blizzard of the season, let me check Malta's weather right now.... December being one of its coldest months, the daily average temperature is 65 degrees with 5 hours of sunshine.

But I digress. Of course, Kmiec's answer was an emphatic, "Yes!" In a May 2008 op-ed in Catholic Online, Kmiec explained....