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The Deconstruction of Marriage
by Daniel Greenfield
Family is a flickering light in the evening of the West.
Category: Society & Common Good
Springtime in Washington
by Tom Purcell
Springtime in Washington Ah, springtime has arrived in Washington, D.C. The National Cherry Blossom Festival is under way. The cherry trees, 3,700 of them given to America by the Japanese in 1912, are in full bloom. One incident involving the trees reminds me why Americans are so wary of Washington. In the spring of 1999, [...]
Marie Stopes and the Charade of “Post-Abortion Care”
by Steven W. Mosher
Is the British Abortion Provider Breaking the Law? Americans may not have heard the name Marie Stopes but she is a household name in Britain. The organization named after her is active in dozens of countries around the globe, including in former British colonies like Kenya and other developing countries like Madagascar. And everywhere and [...]
DOMA Comes Under Fire at Supreme Court
by Ben Johnson
The legislative impact of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) came under heavy fire during oral arguments before the Supreme Court yesterday, with enough justices questioning its effect to signal it may be struck down on states’ rights grounds. Meanwhile, the court’s conservative wing wondered if the “new regime” had instituted a “new world” [...]
Discounting Parents’ Rights
by Ken Connor
For people of faith in America, the Obama administration’s birth control mandate represents an unprecedented assault on religious conscience. It seems that the President and his surrogates have little appreciation for the role that faith plays in the lives of many Americans, and even less respect for the Constitution’s protection of religious liberty. As if [...]
Night Falls on Civilization
by Daniel Greenfield
Like all environmental gimmicks, Earth Hour is perverse and hypocritical.
Income Tax 101
by Tom Purcell
Income Tax 101 Ah, the income tax preparation season is upon us. You’re probably wondering why you have to spend a couple of weekends barricaded in a room, sorting through receipts in the faint hope of complying with our confusing income tax laws. The income tax first came to America in 1861. Americans paid it [...]
Weekly Wits 3/22/13
by Cartoon Editor
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Social Justice and Pope Francis: Choosing Freedom Over Serfdom
by Alejandro A. Chafuen
by Alejandro A. Chafuen on Mar 22, 2013 in Creative Solidarity, Featured, Law & Justice, The Economy, The Social Order 
Society ensures social justice when it respects the dignity and the rights of the person as the proper end of society itself.
Offensive USAID-Funded Ad Pulled in Kenya After Public Outcry
by Lisa Correnti
Just one day after USAID released a progress report on development reform, a US and UK funded AIDS prevention ad was pulled for being offensive and immoral for its promotion of extramarital affairs. While Christian and Muslim religious leaders called on the Communications Commission of Kenya to remove the ad from airwaves, it was a [...]
Preserving Hugo Chavez
by Dr. Paul Kengor
The far left has never been shy about venerating its heroes.
Murder Trial Begins into ‘House of Horrors’ Abortionist
by Kirsten Anderson
Abortionist Kermit Gosnell, who ran the “House of Horrors” abortion clinic in West Philadelphia that was shut down after an FBI raid in 2010, faced the jury for the first time Monday in a case with high stakes: Gosnell faces the possibility of the death sentence if found guilty. Gosnell, 72, is facing capital murder [...]
Weekly Wits: 3/15/13
by Cartoon Editor
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GOP Elites and the Abolition of Marriage
by Jeffrey Lord
Well, this is helpful. A clutch of Republican elites have run to the Supreme Court demanding the judiciary shut off debate on gay marriage. The story has predictably been front page news at the New York Times and in the world of the liberal media, the Times leading with this: More than two dozen Republicans [...]
Who’s Behind India’s Barbaric Mega Sterilization Camps?
by Celeste McGovern
Raw video footage shows unconscious women in saris being unloaded from a filthy plastic stretcher and lined up like butchers’ carcasses on the ground to recover from surgeries at a “mass sterilization camp” in India. The Indian television network, NDTV, aired the film in February, reporting that 103 women were sterilized by two doctors in [...]
My Mother and Father School the Senate
by Tom Purcell
My Mother and Father School the Senate “All right,” said my mother, standing before the members of the U.S. Senate, “it’s time for you to get your act together.” “That’s right,” said my father. “You fools haven’t passed an annual budget in more than three years!” “What is this thing you call a ‘budget’?” said [...]
Weekly Wits: 3/8/13
by Cartoon Editor
#Julia’sCaesar Even Me & Folly Cartoons has felt the ravages of SEQUESTER!! Due to a minor cut in our projected budget we’ve had to sell off all our inks and paints and send our cartoonist to work in a salt mine in Puerto Rico. We still had enough money for crayons, pencils, and this budget-slashing [...]
‘House of Horrors’ Abortionist Rejects Plea Bargain to Avoid Death Penalty
by LifeSiteNews.com
Kermit Gosnell, the late-term abortionist charged with eight counts of murder for allegedly snipping the spinal cords of newborns and overdosing one patient at his squalid Philadelphia abortion facility, has rejected a plea bargain agreement that would have spared him the death penalty if convicted. Gosnell was brought to court on Thursday from a jail [...]
What We Need in a New Pope
by Russell Shaw
“I hope we get a nice pope,” a good Catholic woman told me soon after Benedict XVI announced his resignation. “I don’t care whether he’s nice or not,” I replied. “I just hope he’s strong.” Actually, I’d be glad if the next pope were nice, with a winning smile and a friendly manner. But vastly [...]
The Idol of “Human Rights”
by Louie Verrecchio
by Louie Verrecchio on Mar 07, 2013 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, The Social Order
Our first parents, endowed with every good gift and living in friendship with the benevolent Creator, yielded to the temptation to assert an autonomy that was never their own, exalting themselves over God. Thus, as illustrated in the masterwork of St. Augustine, was the “city of men” set in conflict with the “City of God.” [...]
Who Needs the Family?
by Daniel Greenfield
by Daniel Greenfield on Mar 07, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics, The Social Order
When a civilization destroys its families, then it destroys itself.
Putting Politics Over Public Safety
by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.
An ominous pattern has been developing, particularly of late: The Obama administration seems determined to subordinate public safety to political expediency. If a course-correction is not effected promptly, the result is predictable. Americans will be needlessly harmed, and perhaps killed. The most recent and obvious example was the release last week of hundreds of reportedly [...]
Chilling View from the Joint Chiefs (Part III)
by Genevieve Kineke
Concerning the question of sending American women into combat, we have thus far looked at the trajectory of the feminist movement, specifically how it went from advocating basic equality between the sexes to perverting and deconstructing sexuality altogether. There have been two distinct and deliberate effects of this radical feminism: the first being a blurring [...]
Gender-Bending Child Abuse
by Louie Verrecchio
by Louie Verrecchio on Feb 28, 2013 in Columnists, Featured, Parenting, The Homosexual Agenda, The Social Order
On February 26, 2013, the Denver Post ran an article that contained the following: Colorado parents of transgender 1st-grader file complaint over restroom ban The parents of a transgender 6-year-old have filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Division because Eagleside Elementary School in Fountain banned the first-grader from using the girls’ restroom. The [...]
