While the new regime of socialized medicine under Obamacare is designed to benefit child-killing behemoths like Planned Parenthood, it will put the squeeze on child-saving hospitals like St. Jude, according to a new report from the Daily Caller. A provision in Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code, which takes effect under Obamacare, gives federal bureaucrats a whole new arsenal …
The Source of Liberty
“Can the liberties of anyone or any people or any nation be secure, when we have removed the conviction that those liberties are the gift of God?” Thomas Jefferson
Creed or Chaos
During the Second World War, the English woman of letters, Dorothy Sayers, gave a stunning address on the importance of doctrine. Published after the war as Creed or Chaos, the central argument of the book remains remarkably prescient: “Something is happening to us today, which has not happened for a very long time. We are waging a war of religion. …
Breaking News! Obama Believes Some Republicans May Be Decent!
As hard as it is to over look the horrific grammar in this sentence, it is harder still to overlook it’s horrific sentiment:“And as far as the budget goes, it’s time for responsible Republicans who share these goals — and there are a number of folks out there who I think are decent folks, I’ve got some disagreements with them …
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Throughout all of human history this is a truth that men have taken into account as they have dealt with one another, as they have conducted business, as they have passed laws, and as they have built civil societies. It is the first and most basic insight of both anthropology and sociology. Evil exists. It wrecks havoc on our best …
Doublethink and Doublespeak
In his brilliant dystopian novel, 1984, George Orwell perfectly and presciently described the kind of doublethink and doublespeak we have now come to expect of our modern politicians:“The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them, to tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and …
A Moral Foreign Policy
When the esteemed Senate Majority Leader, Henry Cabot Lodge, addressed his colleagues on this day in 1919, the nation was already in the midst of a “Great Debate” over its future foreign policy. What was then called the Great War—what we call the First World War—had just ended. Should the country now join the new League of Nations that President …
Killer Angel
Coming soon! A new hardcover edition of my biography of Margaret Sanger. Due next month from Standfast Books and Press.
PP: Enemy of Women’s Health and the Rule of Law
Planned Parenthood has become not only the chief menace to women’s health but also to the rule of law and the viability of our constitutional republic. As yet another example of the organization’s brazen hubris, it has sought a restraining order to block a Wisconsin law requiring physicians who perform abortions to have admitting privileges to local hospitals! Seriously? Planned …
Skeptical? You Think?
“If people can’t trust not only the executive branch but also don’t trust Congress, and don’t trust federal judges, to make sure that we’re abiding by the Constitution with due process and rule of law, then we’re going to have some problems here.” President ObamaReally? You’re just now figuring this out? After cheerleading for Planned Parenthood, snooping into our e-mails and …
Gaining Our Liberty–and Losing It Again
On June 9, 1776, the Continental Congress accepted a resolution of Virginia delegate Richard Henry Lee to appoint a committee to draft a declaration of secession from the dominions of the English King and Parliament. On June 29, the committee—composed of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston—presented their draft for debate and a vote. It …
Planned Parenthood’s Hidden Crimes
A new poll conducted by the National Right to Life Committee indicates just how successful Planned Parenthood and its cronies in the media have obscured and distorted the abortion giant’s image. The survey of registered voters, shows that a majority of Americans have favorable opinion of the vast organization. But according to NRLC executive director David O’Steen, this just shows that Planned Parenthood’s favorable image “is really …
A Gipper Eleventary
1. The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” 2. Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his. 3. I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born. 4. I have wondered …
2nd Vote App
Do you know where Planned Parenthood gets its money? Besides the nearly $1 billion in tax revenues and contracts at the local, state, and national levels, corporations lard the coffers of the abortion industry’s largest and most profitable non-profit organization to the tune of nearly another half a billion each year. That’s a lot of blood money. But of course, …