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Mayor Bloomberg: Planned Parenthood’s White Knight

by Dr. Paul Kengor February 7, 2012

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Komen Caves

by Charles Colson February 7, 2012

No doubt you’ve been watching the unfolding drama of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation’s decision to de-fund Planned Parenthood — and then its stunning reversal.
What you saw last week was a concerted, intentional effort by an…

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The “DP” of Adoption Instead of Abortion

by Dr. Paul Kengor February 7, 2012

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Panetta Predicts an Israeli Strike on Iran

by Daniel Pipes February 6, 2012

It’s not every day that someone like the U.S. secretary of defense forecasts an ally’s move but this just happened when Leon Panetta said that he believes, in the paraphrase of a Washington Post reporter, that “there is a strong…

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Sex and Circuses–Pop Paganism at the Super Bowl

by Harold Fickett February 6, 2012

Genius in advertising connects what’s hot in culture with perennial human desires.  That’s why we are fascinated with the Super Bowl ads, because they appeal to who we are whether we like it or not.  The imagery of the Super…

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Ron Paul: Reactionary or Visionary

by Pat Buchanan February 6, 2012

After his fourth-place showing in Florida, Ron Paul, by then in Nevada, told supporters he had been advised by friends that he would do better if only he dumped his foreign policy views, which have been derided as isolationism.
Not…

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Obama Sandbags the Archbishop

by Pat Buchanan February 3, 2012

At the end of Sunday mass at the church this writer attends in Washington, D.C., the pastor asked the congregation to remain for a few minutes.
Then, on the instructions of Cardinal Archbishop Donald Wuerl, the pastor proceeded to read…

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Democrats Love Taxes–They Just Don’t Want to Pay them

by Larry Elder February 3, 2012

Forgive Republican candidate Mitt Romney for his alleged failure to adequately explain why he paid “only” 14 percent of his income in taxes.
The honest answer — “Well, because my accountants couldn’t figure out how to get them any lower”…

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We Do Not Seek; We’re Found

by George Weigel February 3, 2012

On the Solemnity of the Epiphany, I heard a sermon—a rather well-delivered one at that—about the Magi as religious “seekers.” The same note, I’ll wager, was struck from pulpits and ambos across the country, perhaps across the world.
But isn’t…

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Child Sacrifice in 21st Century America

by George Weigel February 2, 2012

The Hebrew Bible is not for the squeamish. And its harshest maledictions are called down upon those who practiced the abomination of child-sacrifice.
Thus the Psalmist:
“They sacrificed their sons and daughters to the demons/they poured out innocent blood, the…

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