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From a speech at Grace Baptist Church in Decatur, Illinois, Dec. 5, 2004: Q: Do you think our Founding Fathers intended us to keep the Judeo-Christian heritage? ALAN KEYES: I think that to such a degree that I put it a little bit more strongly: our Founding Fathers assumed that we would keep our Judeo-Christian heritage. They assumed it. It was so much a part of their thinking that it never occurred to them that anyone would be so crazy as to think you could sustain this system of self-government without respect for it. Q: Why didn’t they relate that...

Sacramento, CA (LifeNews.com) -- First, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger came under fire from pro-life advocates for backing a $6 billion measure using taxpayer funds to destroy human life in cloning and embryonic stem cell research. Now he drawing criticism for suggesting the GOP should become more pro-abortion.In an interview with Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung daily newspaper published Saturday, Schwarzenegger said the Republican Party should move "a little to the left" on issues such as abortion -- a shift he claims would pick up more voters.Schwarzenegger told the paper that "the Republican Party currently covers only the spectrum from the right wing...

They say that if you stack the US Tax Code one page upon another, the pile of paper will reach into the heavens. I’m sure that’s true, for two very simple reasons. First, like most laws written in Washington, those seeking special consideration in the code have lobbied for language that addresses their individual concerns, and nearly everyone is seeking special consideration these days. Second, if "we the people" knew exactly what Washington was doing with all of our hard earned money, there would be a lynch mob on the steps of congress before sundown…so keeping the details buried in...

What's UpstairsTotal Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity. By Nancy Pearcey. Crossway. 479 pp. It is difficult to imagine an encounter in the public square in which one party dismisses the view of the other on the grounds that it is "just science" or "merely the deliverances of empirical proof." This is difficult to imagine because there is beneath what is called the "culture wars" an epistemological division of labor which tells us that science or empirical knowledge is about facts and religion or theology is about opinion.In Total Truth, Nancy Pearcey diagnoses the intellectual pathologies that resulted in...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- A majority of voters want to know in advance how a nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court would rule on abortion and half want President Bush to nominate justices who would uphold the decision making abortion legal, a poll released Wednesday found.

A 20-agency annual report on the well-being of children has been manipulated by the "researchers" who created it so that traditional families and values are undermined.Judith Reisman, Ph.D., is the author of Kinsey: Crimes & Consequences. Months before Hollywood and the liberal media launched their massive love-fest for Kinsey, the movie, your federal tax dollars were at work promoting a dreadful annual report that would have made the infamous sexologist Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey extremely proud. Each year since 1997, the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics (FIFCFS) has published a report entitled America’s Children: Key National Indicators...

CONSTITUTIONAL THEORY COLLOQUIUM SERIESNearly all of American constitutional law today rests on a myth. The myth, presented as standard history both in junior high civics texts and in advanced law school courses on constitutional law, runs something like this: A long, long time ago - 1803, if the storyteller is trying to be precise - in the famous case of Marbury v. Madison,1 the Supreme Court of the United States created the doctrine of "judicial review." Judicial review is the power of the Supreme Court to decide the meaning of the Constitution and to strike down laws that the Court finds unconstitutional.As befits the name of the court...

Los Angeles, CA (LifeNews.com) -- A film that celebrates a cleaning lady who helps women obtain illegal abortions continues to rack up film critic awards and nominations for others."Vera Drake" took home awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association over the weekend as top acting honors went to Imelda Staunton, who plays the lead role in the pro-abortion film.Staunton was also honored at the 17th European Film Awards where the British actress also captured the best actress award. Meanwhile, contenders for the prestigious Golden Globe awards have been announced and Staunton has been nominated for the best dramatic lead...

Secularists believe that they have the right view of America. They are convinced that America should be a secular state or a godless state. They believe that religion was not a decisive factor in the formation of the Constitution of the United States and therefore, this proves that the framers of the Constitution did not want religion to influence public policy. Simply put, politics and religion don't mix. Government and religion should be kept as far apart as possible. There are several historical "facts" secularists use to support their views. Apparently, one of the most important historical facts is the...

It is incredible but George W. Bush has not even been sworn in for his second term as president and the political chattering in Washington has already switched to 2008.Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist made the opening move. He was the first prominent Republican to publicly express reservations about Arlen Specter becoming chairman of the Judiciary Committee after the later questioned whether a nominee who supported overturning Roe v. Wade could be confirmed for the Supreme Court. Every head inside the Beltway turned and asked, why would the normally reserved Leader get so far out front against a fellow member...

Former President of the American Psychological Association Robert Perloff was the keynote speaker at the annual NARTH Conference, which was held in Washington, DC on November 12-14, 2004. Dr. Perloff is the Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Business Administration and of Psychology at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. The former APA president's lecture -- entitled "Free to Choose" -- received a standing ovation from the conference participants. The gathering at the Washington's Wyndham Hotel comprised the largest attendance of any NARTH Conference. Dr. Perloff began his lecture by emphasizing the importance of client self-determination,...

Imagine the scenario: Hillary Clinton, the woman who put the "S" in socialist, outflanks the Republican Party in 2008 on, of all things, immigration and border security reform! Think it’s crazy? If you do you haven’t been listening to Hillary or President Bush lately.

A recent Associated Press survey showed a surprisingly large percentage of Americans in favor of upholding the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion decision, but the poll question itself was misleading, telling respondents Roe legalized abortion only in the first three months of pregnancy – rather than throughout the entire nine months. According to the poll, conducted Nov. 19-21 by Ipsos-Public Affairs, 59 percent of Americans want President Bush to nominate Supreme Court justices who would uphold Roe v. Wade. Some 31 percent of respondents wanted new justices who would overturn the decision and 10 percent were unsure. The...

If you are looking for a reason to vote for Ralph Nader, the way both parties are handling the "gay marriage" issue should give you lots of data. John Kerry, when asked his opinion of "gay marriage," looks like a dog getting a bath, as Chris Hitchens puts it. Kerry says he personally opposes "gay marriage"—but he favors civil unions, which are exactly the same thing. The states, he says, should decide the issue, but he voted against the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, which was specifically designed to allow each state to reject marriage licenses issued in other...

Thank you very much Dean. It’s a great honor and privilege for me to be able to join you today and particularly to be the first commencement speaker. I tell you I do not feel qualified given who you have on this stage to be the commencement speaker. You have other people that could speak far more eloquently and better about any number of topics than I could. But I guess it’s a little bit—I feel a bit like the mule in the Kentucky Derby—I don’t know that I’m going to win the contest but the company is sure nice...

Adorno: A Political Biography, Lorenz Jäger, trans. by Stewart Spencer, Yale University Press, 235 pages Lorenz Jäger’s biography of Theodor Adorno (1903-1969) is a useful study of an unpleasant but influential figure. From the 1920s until his death, Adorno was the prime mover behind the aggregation of cultural and social iconoclasts known as the Frankfurt School. Together with his more down-to-earth co-organizer Max Horkheimer, who contributed family wealth to their enterprise, Adorno took his socially radical think tank, the Institute for Social Research, in 1934 from its interwar home in Frankfurt to New York and later Los Angeles. In 1949,...

Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt: Toward a Secular TheocracyPaul Gottfried has spent a useful career shining his lantern of truth into the dark corners of America's political consciousness. In After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State (1999), he examined the rise and consolidation of centralized managerial regimes across the Western world. Gottfried documented what should have been obvious to every educated man: Modern mass democracy was characterized not by popular participation or informed consent but by mass socialization, public apathy, and rule by public administrators.In Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt, Gottfried examines "the turning of the administrative...

It could happen any day now: A U.S. military unit heads into an urban combat zone in Iraq's Sunni Triangle. Its members believe they know where Abu Musab Zarqawi is hiding. Their mission is to capture or kill the most murderous terrorist this side of Osama bin Laden. Their chance of succeeding--and getting back alive--will be enhanced by accurate and timely intelligence fed to them from overhead satellites. Question: Who should control those satellites? Should it be the military commanders of the troops heading into combat? Or should it be a civilian bureaucrat--removed from the military chain of command--sitting in...

An immigration reform organization is concerned that the man President Bush has tapped to be the next U.S. attorney general has been involved with an organization that opposes the enforcement of immigration laws.The pro-life community has already expressed its concerns about White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, noting that while a Texas Supreme Court justice he chose not to rule against abortion, in any situation. Now the Washington, DC-based Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is calling Gonzales to task for his reported involvement with the National Council of La Raza, which has endorsed his nomination for attorney general.FAIR spokeswoman Susan...

Guilty as charged. Yes, your honor, I unflinchingly plead guilty. Columnist Les Kinsolving called me out by name recently and said that I, as president of American Life League, was a practitioner of fetal fanaticism - and deadly extremism - all because I insist that every abortion is evil. And I offer no apologies.