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Monday, February 29, 2016

Listen Up!

Attention culture warriors. Here are a few not-to-be-missed articles from recent days.

* “Heavenly Mindedness” (Randy Alcorn, EPM)

* “Meet Donald Trump: The King of Sleaze” (Rebecca Hagelin, Town Hall)

* “The collapse of gender sanity: Waging war on innate sexual difference” (Rachel Lu, Mercator)

* “The Emperor Has No Clue…And His Devotees Couldn’t Care Less” (Derek Hunter, Town Hall)

* “Why So Many Millennials Are Socialists” (Emily Ekins and Joy Pullmann, The Federalist)

* “The Rise of Intolerant Liberals” (Kim Holmes, Daily Signal)

* “Harvard’s dark past as the brain trust of American eugenics” (Michael Cook, BioEdge)

* “Margaret Sanger’s Eugenics Heyday in the Federal Government” (Susan T. Muskett, Mercator)
Posted by DH at 9:51 AM
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Topics: Christian Teaching, Culture, Culture Wars, Eugenics, Freedom Issues, Hall of Shame, National Politics, Planned Parenthood, Sexuality, The Persecuted Church

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Dispatches from the Culture Wars

* “New California Law Forces Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers to Advertise Abortions” (Chuck Donovan, Daily Signal)

* “Fearing the ‘G’ Word, the State Department Turns Its Back on Middle Eastern Christians” (Nina Shea, National Review)

* “Trump, Lies, and Bankruptcy” (Kevin D. Williamson, National Review)

* “The Ambassador From Hell?” (Lee Smith, Tablet)

* “The Day the Constitution Died” (Ben Shapiro, Town Hall)

* “FCC commissioner: U.S. tradition of free expression slipping away” (Rudy Takala, Washington Examiner)

* “How Green Is Thy Planet” (Stephen Hayward, Power Line)
Posted by DH at 10:20 AM
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Topics: Culture Wars, Environment, Freedom Issues, Hall of Shame, International Politics, National Politics, Pro-Life Activities, The Persecuted Church

Monday, February 08, 2016

Human Rights Start Here


Posted by DH at 12:56 PM
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Topics: Chemical Abortion, Fetal Development, Pro-Life Activities, Surgical Abortion

A Few Important Reads

* “Pro-Choicers’ Reaction to Doritos Super Bowl Ad Exposes the Weakness in Their Worldview” (Sarah Rumpf, National Review)

* “Obama at Prayer” (Scott Johnson, Power Line)

* “Millennials heed the siren call of socialism” (Joel Kotkin, Orange County Register)

* “Insurer Obamacare Losses Reach Billions Of Dollars After Two Years” (Bruce Japsen, Forbes)

* “Washington's culture of corruption rots on” (Glenn Reynolds, USA Today)

* “Obama Administration to Oil Companies (and Motorists): Drop Dead” (Steven Hayward, Power Line)

* “A Conservative Senator’s 5 Steps to Fix Congress” (Mike Lee, Daily Signal)

* “Another euthanasia scandal in Belgium” (Michael Cook, BioEdge)

* “Obama bullied bank to pay racial settlement without proof: report” (Paul Sperry, New York Post)

* “The Regrettable Decline of Higher Learning” (Victor Davis Hanson, Town Hall)
Posted by DH at 12:50 PM
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Topics: Business, Culture Wars, Education, Energy, Euthanasia, Fetal Development, Freedom Issues, Hall of Shame, National Politics, ObamaCare, Surgical Abortion

Wednesday, February 03, 2016

Here, Catch This!

Among the best articles of recent days are these:

* “Failure in Cuba” (Editors, Washington Post)

* “DDT Might Have Stopped Zika, But Environmentalists Chose Mosquitoes Over People” (Daniel Greenfield, Front Page Magazine)

* “Public school kisses Valentine's Day goodbye” (Todd Starnes, Fox News)

* “Ex-Spies Say That Clinton’s Illegal Server Triggered Widespread Devastation” (Deroy Murdock, National Review)

* “Soros’ $6 Million For Hillary Speak Volumes” (Editors, Investor’s Business Daily)

* “Immoral Girl Scout Cookies” (Tom Purcell, Town Hall)

* “The Dirty Little Secret of How Teachers Unions Stay in Business” (Evan Grossman, Daily Signal)

* “Tenured Thugs and Thieves” (Kevin D. Willamson, National Review)

Posted by DH at 1:32 PM
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Topics: Crime, Cuba, Education, Environment, Freedom Issues, Hall of Shame, International Politics, National Politics, Planned Parenthood, Science, The Persecuted Church

Monday, February 01, 2016

Catching Up

Among the excellent articles of the last few days are these:

* “Why I’m Endorsing Ted Cruz For President” (John Hawkins, Town Hall)

* “Pay No Attention to What Planned Parenthood Is Doing Behind the Curtain” (Hans von Spakovsky and Andrew Kloster, Daily Signal)

* “The Iowa Caucus Is Like an Ethanol Subsidy for Iowa Politicians” (Jonah Goldberg, National Review)

* “America’s Economic Freedom Has Rapidly Declined Under Obama” (Anthony B. Kim, Daily Signal)

* “Normalising abortion won’t make it hurt less” (Nicole M. King, Mercator)

“Progressivism Throws Money at Problems. Conservatism Solves Them” (Jim DeMint, Daily Signal)

* “What a Gay Man’s Court Victory Over a Catholic Girls School Means” (Diana Stancy, Daily Signal)
Posted by DH at 9:46 AM
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Topics: Culture Wars, Education, Freedom Issues, Government Spending, Hall of Shame, National Politics, Planned Parenthood, Surgical Abortion, The Persecuted Church
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