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July 2013

July 30, 2013

Follow Jesus, Not the R or the D (Thank You Readers!)

Can a Christian be a Democrat? That’s a loaded question in today’s America. We have...

July 12, 2013

She Could Have Been Me

I wrote this post over a year ago. In light of questions raised by a...

June 2013

June 21, 2013

Why are the Bishops Doing This?

In honor of the Fortnight for Freedom, I am going to limit today's quick picks...

June 20, 2013

If It’s Not Prostitution, Take the Money out of It

I knew when I posted The New Prostitution: Surrogate Pregnancy that I would get a flurry...

June 11, 2013

Do Women Need Planned Parenthood?

Do women need Planned Parenthood? Every time anyone raises the question of cutting government...

June 10, 2013

The New Prostitution: Surrogate Pregnancy

I'm going to be writing about the "new" prostitution a lot in the months ahead....

June 06, 2013

Size Matters: For Some Humans, Size is a Death Sentence

When does life begin? Back when I was pro choice, I used to field that...

June 02, 2013

They Said it Would Never Happen: Human Cloning on Our Doorstep

Human cloning. I remember well when we were promised that human cloning was never going...

April 2013

April 24, 2013

Cardinal Dolan Receives William Wilberforce Award

My idea of ecumenicism isn't that Christians should try to undo the Reformation. My idea...

April 09, 2013

Abortion is Everything. Women — or At Least Baby Women — Are Nothing.

Oklahoma passed a law against sex-selected abortions, a few years back. When we did, the...

April 05, 2013

Planned Parenthood Jumps the Shark. Then Blames the Shark.

It's time for every brainless knee-jerk Planned Parenthood supporter to line up and recite "right...

March 2013

March 08, 2013

Atheist Governments; Failed Experiments in Godless Goodness

Christian persecution in our world today seems to occur at junctures where competing ideas meet....

February 2013

February 08, 2013

Christian Persecution: 6 Quick Takes from Around the World

Violent persecutors of Christians appear to be cowards as well as bigots. How else to...

January 2013

January 28, 2013

Parsing Killing With Impunity and Manufacturing Monsters

In case you were wondering, the devil is at work all over the world, not...

January 26, 2013

Bill Maher, Prophecy Fulfiller or Just Another Atheist Crank in Love With Death?

Bill Maher, the aggressive atheist/talk show host, managed to fulfill a prophecy a few months...

January 16, 2013

Two Men Euthanized in Belgium Because They Were Losing Their Sight

Speak of slippery slopes and it will never happen. Identical twin brothers were recently euthanized...

January 09, 2013

333,964 Abortions: Planned Parenthood Breaks Their Own Record

Planned Parenthood set a new record. They performed 333,964 abortions in 2010-2012, which is...

January 08, 2013

Supreme Court Declines Stem Cell Case

WASHINGTON (BP) -- The Supreme Court declined Monday (Jan. 7) to hear a case about...

January 06, 2013

Archbishop Coakley: Pray for Life, Marriage and Religious Liberty

This letter from Archbishop Paul Coakley of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City was read in...

December 2012

December 01, 2012

Passing Holocaust Tattoos from One Generation to the Next

Israeli grandchildren of Holocaust survivors are beginning to have their own arms tattooed with the...

November 2012

November 26, 2012

Killing Women in the Name of Reproductive Health

The IUD is making a come-back. Thirty years after lawsuits concerning deaths, hospitalizations and infections...

November 26, 2012

The Pill: Killing Women in the Name of Reproductive Health

Remember Yaz? I've lost count of the Yaz commercials I saw. Here are a couple...

November 24, 2012

491 Canadian Babies Survived Abortions and Left to Die

The grisly logic of abortion is most apparent in the debates and discussions concerning what...

November 16, 2012

Is This Your First Blob of Tissue?

No matter how much they may claim that killing is a "right" people who advance...

November 03, 2012

Calling Evil Good: How Many People Do You Have to Kill Before It’s Wrong? Part 1

Euthanasia in the Netherlands 1. 17% of euthanasia victims were euthanized by doctors without the...

November 03, 2012

Marriage and Euthanasia: Your Most Important Vote May Be Further Down the Ballot

"The vote in Massachusetts on doctor-prescribed death will be one of the most consequential votes...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

Calling Evil Good: Dr Death, Euthanasia and Rights Talk

Evil begats evil. It also glorifies it. Dr Jack Kevorkian, the serial killer with a...

October 31, 2012

John Paul II: No Authority Can Justify Euthanasia

Euthanasia is an attack on life that no human authority can justify, because the life...

October 18, 2012

Today is Call Planned Parenthood, Schedule an Imaginary Mammogram Day

Live Action News has declared today, October 18, 2012 "Call Planned Parenthood and Schedule an...

October 10, 2012

What Would Happen if Corporations Opposed China’s One-Child Policy?

We live in a morally truncated world. We've been very carefully taught that economics, business...