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More Radical Than Roe: House Abortion Bill Would Repeal Existing Laws, Prohibit Future Pro-Life Laws
/in Culture Wars, Life Advocacy, Politics /by Melanie IsraelIn response to pro-life policy victories like the Texas Heartbeat Act and an upcoming Supreme Court case asking the justices to provide a constitutional course correction to America’s arbitrary and unworkable abortion jurisprudence, pro-abortion legislators in Congress are advancing a deceptively named piece of legislation called the Women’s Health Protection Act. The radical, far-reaching proposal […]
Supreme Court Refuses To Block Texas Heartbeat Law Which Virtually Bans Killing Babies
/in Culture Wars, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics /by Jordan DavidsonThe Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Texas law that protects babies who have a detectable heartbeat from being aborted in the Lone Star State. In a 5-4 decision, the highest court in the nation declined to block Texas’ newest abortion law despite protests from Planned Parenthood, other abortion activists, and even journalists. Radical […]
Mississippi Abortion Law Gives Supreme Court Opening to Overturn Roe v. Wade
/in Liberty, Life Advocacy, News, Politics /by Sarah Parshall Perry and Melanie IsraelAt least one case slated to be heard in the Supreme Court’s next term promises to be very controversial: Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health. In Dobbs, the Supreme Court must answer a question it has never addressed; namely, whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional. And Mississippi has just submitted its first arguments […]
Medical Professionals And School Districts Are Denying Girls Access To Mental Health Services
/in Culture Wars, Education, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics /by Ginny GentlesSocial media floods our culture with tales of celebrities’ personal struggles. “I suffer from binge-eating disorder, a disease in which I’m not only addicted to food, but I eat it in large quantities,” transgender activist Jazz Jennings shared in June. Singer Demi Lovato, who recently announced a non-binary identity, continues to battle a years-long struggle […]
Senate Candidate Blasts ‘Childless Left’ Who Have ‘No Physical Commitment To The Future Of This Country’
/in Culture Wars, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics /by Spencer LindquistJ.D. Vance, a U.S. Senate candidate from Ohio, called out the “childless left” whom he said have “no physical commitment to the future of this country” in a fiery speech given to the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s conference on the Future of American Political Economy. Senate candidate, former Marine, and author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” Vance specifically […]
The Boy Scouts: A Case Study in Compromise
/in Culture Wars, Life Advocacy, Politics /by Tony PerkinsAfter 100 years of teaching future presidents, explorers, and civil rights leaders to follow their moral compass, it’s been sobering to watch the Boy Scouts lose their own bearings. And yet, the unhappy ending for one of America’s proudest traditions was easy to predict once the organization started chasing the approval of critics it could […]
Modern-Day Martyr: Meet The Self-Made Billionaire Who Is Sacrificing It All For God
/in Liberty, Life Advocacy, News /by Christopher BedfordIn Western universities and board rooms, souls are cheap. But Jimmy Lai’s is not. In Hong Kong right now, Jimmy Lai is sacrificing all — his fortune and possibly his life — for his God, his fellow man, and for freedom. Lai is a billionaire, although he wasn’t always one. Born two years before the […]
Religious Freedom Victory
/in Culture Wars, Liberty, Life Advocacy /by Editorial StaffSupreme Court Upholds First Amendment Right of Catholic Church To Participate in Children’s Foster Care Program In a victory for religious freedom, the U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed the First Amendment right of a Catholic ministry to participate in a city-run children’s foster care program. In Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, a unanimous Supreme Court found the […]
Why Every American Should Own a Gun…And Know How to Use It
/in Gun Rights, Liberty, Life Advocacy, National Security, Politics /by Neland NobelThe issue seems to perfectly match the discordance of our times. As the media and political elites lecture us about “gun violence” and attempt to take our rights away, average Americans are buying guns and ammunition at a record pace. Some 40% of first-time buyers are women. What do average Americans know that the elites do […]
Don’t Be Fooled: Gender Identity Policies Don’t Follow the Science
/in Culture Wars, Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics /by Jared EckertDuring the past presidential election, you may remember seeing black yard signs with lists of creed-like statements written in rainbow text. The creeds included claims like “science is real.” All Americans should agree with this statement. And yet, contrary to this pithy creed, any law that classifies gender identity as a protected class under civil […]
Armed Teacher Thwarts Kidnapping of 11-Year-Old Student at Utah School: Police
/in Liberty, Life Advocacy, News /by Jessica ChasmarA Utah teacher is being hailed a hero after police say he pulled his concealed firearm on a man who tried to kidnap an 11-year-old student. Ogden police said officers were called to Lincoln Elementary School on Tuesday when Ira Cox-Berry, 41, walked up to an 11-year-old girl playing on the playground and tried to […]
Arizona Lawmakers, Governor Move Toward Harm Reduction
/in Culture Wars, Healthcare, Life Advocacy /by Jeffrey A. SingerArizona’s Governor and lawmakers are displaying an enlightened shift in strategy addressing the overdose crisis. After the state experienced an estimated 48 percent jump in overdose deaths during the first eight months of 2020 (a 32 percent increase in most populous Maricopa County in all of 2020), they decided to embrace harm reduction. On May […]
A Braver, Newer World Of Mail-Order Abortion
/in Culture Wars, Life Advocacy, Politics /by James JeffreyIn the U.K. and U.S., COVID-19 has provided an excuse for even more accessible abortion. In America at least, it seems the Catholic Church might fight back. The reshaping of society by COVID-19 has generated plenty of discussion, but not much of that chatter has included the ushering in of mail-order abortion. In April last […]
Life Wins! Governor Signs SB 1457!
/in Culture Wars, Liberty, Life Advocacy /by Editorial StaffA Statement from Center for Arizona Policy President Cathi Herrod, Esq Today, Arizonans win. Arizona children diagnosed with disabilities prior to birth will no longer be discriminated against. Arizona women will be ensured commonsense safeguards if they choose the abortion pill. Arizona taxpayers will not be forced to support abortions at public colleges and universities, […]
Swedish Hospital Bans Puberty Blockers, Cross-Sex Hormones for Gender Dysphoric Youths Under 16. We Should, Too.
/in Culture Wars, Healthcare, Life Advocacy /by Nicole RussellSweden, arguably one of the most politically and socially liberal countries in the world, has nonetheless taken a giant step toward protecting gender dysphoric minors and their mental, emotional, and physical well-being. The Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine reported on Wednesday that the Astrid Lindgren’s Children’s Hospital—an arm of the one of the most renowned hospitals in Sweden, the Karolinska […]
The US Government’s Debt-to-GDP Ratio Is Worse Than Greece’s Before the 2008 Crash (And It’s About to Get Worse)
/in Economy, Life Advocacy, Politics /by Jon MiltimoreThe US is in uncharted debt territory. That should worry us. President Biden on Wednesday pitched a new plan to Americans before a joint session of Congress: more spending. The just-released $1.8 trillion plan, presented just weeks after Biden signed a $1.9 trillion in COVID relief spending into law, includes “free” community college as well as […]
Planned Parenthood’s Denunciation of Founder Rings ‘Hollow’ to These Black Pro-Life Leaders
/in Culture Wars, Life Advocacy, News, Politics /by Mary Margaret OlohanBlack pro-life leaders condemned Planned Parenthood’s “hollow” denunciation of Margaret Sanger after Planned Parenthood President Alexis McGill Johnson distanced the organization from Sanger’s “association with white supremacist groups and eugenics.” Human Coalition vice president Benjamin Watson, a former NFL athlete, said Sunday that Planned Parenthood’s denunciation of its founder rang “hollow” in light of the organization’s current work. […]
This Lawsuit Threatens the Rights of Faith-Based Schools to Operate According to Their Beliefs
/in Culture Wars, Liberty, Life Advocacy, News, Politics /by Sarah KramerAt the end of March, an LGBT activist group sued the U.S. Department of Education, demanding that a key religious exemption be taken away from faith-based schools. If successful, college students would be forbidden from using their federal tuition assistance at schools that proclaim widely held religious teachings on marriage, gender, and sexuality. In other […]
Federal Government Caught Buying ‘Fresh’ Flesh Of Aborted Babies Who Could Have Survived As Preemies
/in Healthcare, Life Advocacy /by Edie HeipelAmericans should be outraged their government participates in the wide-scale human trafficking operation that created a market for harvesting the organs of murdered infants. This article contains disturbing information about human dismemberment. Last week, legal accountability group Judicial Watch dropped a bombshell: a nearly 600-page report proving the U.S. government has been buying and trafficking […]
The Real Lessons of Fukushima
/in Economy, Environment, Life Advocacy, National Security, News /by Kelvin KemmA decade has passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake, and the name Fukushima is etched into history. But few people know the truth of what happened. The phrase, “the lessons learned from Fukushima,” is well-known. But how do people implement them, if they don’t know what happened, or what lessons they should actually learn? […]
A Qualifying Test for Experts on Race and Diversity
/in Culture Wars, Liberty, Life Advocacy, News, Politics /by Craig J. CantoniJudging by what they say and write, reporters, commentators, academics, and directors of diversity and inclusion see themselves as experts on race and diversity. Many of them see racism and inequalities everywhere, based on the official but contrived racial categories of African American, Hispanic, White, Asian, Pacific Islander, and Native American. The following test will […]
Corporate Media Don’t Want To Talk About The Atlanta Gunman’s Real Motivation
/in Culture Wars, Liberty, Life Advocacy, News /by John Daniel DavidsonIf the Atlanta shootings aren’t about race but sexual pathology, it’s an indictment not of racism but prevailing sexual attitudes among our elite. There’s something off about press coverage of the shooting rampage in Atlanta earlier this week. Nearly every corporate media outlet has framed the killings as a racially-motivated “hate crime” against Asian Americans, […]
Rand Paul Blasts Transgender Biden Nominee For Endorsing Sex Changes For Young Children
/in Culture Wars, Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics /by Tristan JusticeKentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul, during a Senate confirmation hearing, railed against President Joe Biden’s nominee for assistant Health and Human Services secretary, Dr. Rachel Levine, a transgender health official in Pennsylvania, over Levine’s support for gender reassignment surgery. “According to the WHO, gender mutilation is recognized internationally as a violation of human rights,” Paul […]
Mass Murder Cover Up
/in Life Advocacy, Politics /by Bruce BialoskyA storm covers the skies of New York as a scandal has broken surrounding its Governor. Charges have come forth asserting a cover-up of the number of deaths occurring in New York nursing homes that were hidden from the public. That may be true, but that is not the real cover-up. There is another group […]
Will France Save Us Again?
/in Culture Wars, Liberty, Life Advocacy, National Security, Politics /by Craig J. CantoniAfter saving us in the Revolutionary War, will it save us from wokeness? France deserves our gratitude, at least from those of us who believe that America is worth saving in spite of its imperfections. First, France helped us in winning the Revolutionary War. That would be the war that is claimed by today’s poorly […]
Minimum Wages Had a Eugenic Intent
/in Culture Wars, Economy, Liberty, Life Advocacy, News, Politics /by Jeffrey TuckerAll this talk of a $15 national minimum wage prompted me to revisit the standard textbook on economics of the US Progressive Era. Principles of Economics, by Frank W. Taussig (1917) is a pretty interesting book overall and it does hold up in general as an elucidation of then-existing knowledge and pedagogy. There is one section, however, where […]
Married Americans Are Different
/in Culture Wars, Life Advocacy, News, Politics /by Samuel AbramsPolling shows a strong relationship between marriage status and political outlook. As political scientists, pundits, and historians try to make sense of the November 2020 election, a marriage divide in the electorate has emerged. Married Americans were appreciably more likely to vote for Trump than those who were either unmarried and cohabiting or single. As […]
Protecting Women
/in Culture Wars, Liberty, Life Advocacy, News, Politics /by Bruce BialoskyThe cascades of high-mindedness keep rolling over us from the new kids in Washington. Backed by the sycophants who used to be our proud journalists, we hear how civility is once again reigning over our nation’s capital as the autocratic lecher has finally departed after four years of pain and suffering. All of that rang […]
Stop School Shootings Like We Stopped School Fires – From The Inside
/in Culture Wars, Education, Gun Rights, Life Advocacy, News /by Karl JenkinsSaturday, Dec. 1, 2020, marked the 62th anniversary of the 2nd worst school fire in US history – the Our Lady of the Angels Catholic School fire in Chicago killing 92 children and three nuns. The worst school fire was in Collinwood, Ohio on March 4, 1908, killing 172 students, two teachers, and one […]
The Catastrophic Impact of Covid Forced Societal Lockdowns
/in Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, News /by AIER Contributing AuthorsThe present Covid-inspired forced lockdowns on business and school closures are and have been counterproductive, not sustainable and are, quite frankly, meritless and unscientific. They have been disastrous and just plain wrong! There has been no good reason for this. These unparalleled public health actions have been enacted for a virus with an infection mortality […]