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October 2019

October 18, 2019

The Totalitarian Impulse

Totalitarianism is the belief that the government should control the totality of human life. Communists...

October 07, 2019

The White Privilege of the Democratic Left

Affluent college-educated white Democrats are further to the left than working class, Hispanic, and African-American...

September 2019

September 04, 2019

From Population Explosion to Population Collapse

Fifty years ago, people were in a panic about the prospects of a population...

August 2019

August 27, 2019

Planned Parenthood Is (Partially) Defunded

Planned Parenthood has been making some $60 million a year from Title X, the federal...

August 15, 2019

Why White Supremacists Support Abortion

Pro-abortion activists are trying to associate pro-lifers with white supremacists! But this libel has it...

August 14, 2019

Assisted Suicide and White Privilege

In states that have legalized assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia, virtually all of the people...

July 2019

July 01, 2019

Being Pro-Life is the Moral Equivalent of Racism?

Notice that today's political discourse no longer consists much of rational argument, attempts at persuasion,...

June 2019

June 26, 2019

Stopping a Court-Ordered Forced Abortion in UK

A British court had ruled that a mentally-handicapped woman must get an abortion. Even though...

June 12, 2019

Catholic Pro-Abortion Lawmakers Barred from Communion in Illinois

The Bishop of Springfield, Illinois, Thomas Paprocki, has issued a decree barring the leadership of...

June 10, 2019

The Dawning of the Age of Pelagius

Christianity Today has published a remarkably insightful article by the junior senator from Missouri, Josh...

May 2019

May 31, 2019

The Women of Proverbs & the Bible’s Family Dramas

The estimable Peter Leithart has written a must-read piece in First Things entitled Heroic Domesticity. It begins...

May 23, 2019

Abortion’s Underlying Issue

The great Anthony Esolen has written a brilliant article for Public Discourse on the underlying...

May 10, 2019

Why Abortion Can Never Be an “Inalienable Right”

Kansas is predominantly a pro-life state with a pro-life legislature. But abortions--even late-term abortions of...

March 2019

March 08, 2019

Progressives Say Abortion is the Key Progressive Cause

As Democrats fall off the deep end, some progressives are saying that unlimited abortion on...

March 07, 2019

“It Is Never Necessary” to Kill a Viable Fetus to Save the Woman’s Life

Even many pro-lifers concede that an abortion might be justified in order to save the...

February 2019

February 27, 2019

Planned Parenthood Is Cut Off from Millions of Tax Dollars

Title X of the Public Health Service Act pays for birth control for low income and...

February 26, 2019

With Backlash to Extremism, Pro-Lifers Catch Up

Just a few weeks ago, in mid-January, a poll found that 55% of Americans considered...

February 05, 2019

Democrat Blocks Bill Protecting “Abortion Survivors”

Those of us who criticized the disgraced Virginia governor Ralph Northam for describing his abortion-until-birth...

February 01, 2019

And Now a Move to Legalize “Abortion” AFTER BIRTH

There is no limit to what pro-abortionists would do to an unwanted child. No limit....

January 2019

January 29, 2019

Abortionists Strike Back

As pro-lifers are scoring victories, with the hope of a conservative Supreme Court that might...

January 22, 2019

Appeals Court Vindicates Planned Parenthood Sting Tapes

The Fifth Circuit of Court of Appeals has vindicated the undercover videos that exposed the...

January 02, 2019

The Holy Innocents & the Abortionists

I missed Holy Innocents Day on December 28, which commemorates King Herod's slaughter of the...

December 2018

December 31, 2018

The Late Bre Payton on Protecting Down Syndrome Babies

I am saddened at the death of Bre Payton, one of my students at Patrick...

December 06, 2018

Movie Features a Journalist of Real News, Not Fake News:

It's one thing to be in a movie. But it's even better to be of...

November 2018

November 16, 2018

Applying the Two Kingdoms on Capitol Hill

At the Rural and Small Town Ministries conference I attended, I got to hear from...

October 2018

October 19, 2018

Planned Parenthood’s Plan to Work Around a Pro-Life Supreme Court

Planned Parenthood is making plans to promote abortion despite the likelihood of a pro-life Supreme...

October 04, 2018

Why America Is Polarized

How did America get to be so polarized? Why are Americans so disunified and our...

October 03, 2018

Making “Humanized Mice” with Aborted Fetal Tissue–Cancelled!

Researchers have been combining human DNA with that of mice. The goal of generating these...

October 01, 2018

“By Any Means Necessary”

"By any means necessary." This phrase, originating with Jean-Paul Sartre and made famous by Malcolm...

September 2018

September 26, 2018

Only 18% of Americans Believe in Abortion on Demand

Americans' beliefs about abortion are complicated. Pro-abortionists are hailing recent polling that finds that 60%...