Vital Signs

"I only hope that if I am lucky enough to be in hospital, that the doctors treating me will not believe at some stage that it will be i...

Well, what do you know! Despite the secretive machinations of pork-barrel experts Ted Stevens and Robert Byrd, Senator Tom Coburn's Fede...

I remember young Mark Byrne from his days of accompanying his mom and dad to various pro-life activities here in Nebraska. He was a terrific...

"Legalized theft." That's how Timothy Carney, author of The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money ,...

You've no doubt heard of the Jerry Springer Show , one of the trashiest, most offensive, most disturbing television programs ever. You m...

If you're one of those who pray for a free Cuba, you may be interested in an exchange between Henry Louis Gomez and myself concerning bo...

We are the party of abortion, gay marriage, sodomy, divorce, pornography, the one-parent household and premarital sex – in short, the party ...

Carlos Eire is the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History at Yale University. Eire’s memoir of his childhood in Cuba, Waiting for Snow in Ha...

Just how far has our culture descended from traditional morality? Well, here's one example to help measure the decline. It is a list of ...

I have posted several items in the last couple of weeks about the hyped-up claims regarding the new techniques of embryonic stem cell resear...

How do people become pro-lifers? What turns people into passionate foes of abortion and related issues like euthanasia and embryonic stem ce...

Wow. Today's "must read" comes from Anne Barbeau Gardiner and is published in the September edition of New Oxford Review. It ...

Here's a blast from the past...but one that still is as relevant as the day I first recorded this "Vital Signs" radio program....

In a sadly typical example of how easy the courts go on abortion zealots who break the law compared to how the hammer falls on pro-life acti...

With the MSM going giddy with the dawn of the Katie Couric era, it is the right time to remind yourself of just what the lady has stood for ...

As regular visitors to Vital Signs Blog know, one of the pro-life sources I find most helpful is LifeNews.com . I have frequently linked to ...

No, this brief piece by John Bambenek over at ProLife Blogs dealing with the Associated Press policy on "reporting" abortion rel...

Here's a thoughtful essay "Cuban Freedom and the Possibilities of History" by veteran journalist, Marc R. Masferrer. It is ov...

So who were those "secret Senators" who were holding up S. 2590 , the much-needed, common-sense Federal Funding Accountability and...

"We at the Kirk are holding to what Scripture clearly teaches. The PCUSA has left this critical foundation. We, therefore, no longer re...