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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Fresh from switching from the Republican to the Democratic Party, pro-abortion Sen. Arlen Specter upset pro-life advocates again over the weekend. He blamed the death of pro-life former Congressman and vice-presidential candidate Jack Kemp on pro-life policies that he claimed are anti-science. Kemp died over the weekend about a bout with cancer, with which he was only diagnosed in January. By the time it was caught, it had spread throughout his body. Now, Specter has, as some pro-life advocates say, "shamefully" used the occasion of Kemp's death to justify his political switch. "Well, I was sorry...

Upon learning of Jack Kemp's death Saturday at 73, there was so much to say about the Buffalo Bills football great and New York congressman that it was difficult to keep any reminiscence brief. As quarterback, president of his players association, congressman, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and vice presidential nominee, Kemp seemingly lived several lives in one brief lifetime. What frequently stunned people upon learning it was that, while the father of the concept of tax cuts (now universally identified with the modern Republican Party) and a leading GOP voice for free trade zones, Kemp was self-taught in...

Jack Kemp passed away this weekend, of cancer at age seventy-three. Former vice-presidential candidate, congressman, and Housing secretary, he was the most improbable and the most important hero of the Reagan Revolution after the Gipper himself. Without Jack’s true-believer’s passion for tax cuts as a remedy for the stagflation of the 1970s, Reagan would not have staked his presidency on an untested and controversial theory. His death should remind us how lucky we were to have leaders like Reagan and Kemp, and a political system that allowed improbable leaders—an ex-actor and a retired quarterback—to appear at providential moments.It was impossible...