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Last week marked 50 years since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his seminal „I Have a Dream” speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Fifty years ago, if someone had told the audience assembled at the National Mall that they would see a black man elected President in their lifetime,… Continuă lectura Time to Make „Unborn” the New Gay?

Chemical weapons are being used in Syria, Iran is on the verge of developing nuclear weapons, radical Islam is on the march in much of the world, American cities such as Chicago resemble a war zone, our health-care system is on the verge of collapse, and yet a growing number of our “best and brightest”… Continuă lectura ‘Green’ Activists Should Take A Hike

I have spoke with the tongue of angels I have held the hand of a devil It was warm in the night I was cold as a stone Bono In addition to unions, other soak-the-rich because they’re evil types, and corporations-aren’t-people so we can destroy them without hurting anyone, President Obama hooked up with Bono… Continuă lectura Don’t Cry For Bono & (Really) Rich Phonies

If Rush Limbaugh, Karl Rove, Dick Morris, Michael Barone and others are right and Mitt Romney is our next president, we moral conservatives cannot take our foot off the gas. We cannot let up in our advocacy for life and family. We cannot relax or shift into neutral as if some great victory has already… Continuă lectura A Warning to Moral Conservatives

The signature achievement of President Obama’s four years of office was the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. „ObamaCare”. Passed into law in 2010, and initially upheld as constitutional by the Supreme Court in 2012, ObamaCare has had an ongoing negative effect upon the employment situation in the United States since… Continuă lectura You Pick: Your Job or Your Health Insurance

Over dinner with an anesthesiologist friend, we discussed his new job -specifically his „on call” schedule. He explained that he needed to get one of his partners to take his next day on call, but that it shouldn’t be a problem. In fact, he said that his partners vie for these call days. I was… Continuă lectura Obamacare may be around, but will your doctor?

We take free speech for granted in America, unlike elsewhere. The  furor over that anti-Muslim video is the latest reminder of that. But freedom of speech is never safe, even here. Many colleges now  impose „civility codes.” Civility is nice, but enforcing a „civility rule”  against offensive speech would put an end to lots of useful… Continuă lectura Bad Rules

Since Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in January 1973, more than 55 million babies have been aborted in America. If a number like “55 million” is hard to grasp, think of it this way – if you added together the populations of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego,… Continuă lectura Abortion Kills Children and Entire Populations

If there’s one consistent strategy Barack Obama’s reelection campaign has pursued, it’s trying to mobilize women on his behalf with rallying cries of free birth control. His tactics have ranged from declaring a literal ‘war on women,’ to evangelizing Hollywood actresses like Scarlett Johansson to blanketing television with ads admonishing women to be ‘scared’ of… Continuă lectura Is Obama is Losing the War For Women?

Senator Tom Coburn released the Wastebook 2012 today detailing the 100 most egregious wastes of taxpayer money. The two hundred page report details waste in all manner of federal spending – from multi-billion dollar programs all the way down to a $300 grant to a small-town library for a Star Wars-themed event. It’s emblematic of… Continuă lectura Moroccan Pottery, Obamaphones, and Gaydar: How the Government Wasted Your Money This Year