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February 10, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Just weeks into 2021, and abortion is front and center in American politics once again, with more than a dozen pro-life laws surfacing at state legislatures, Biden’s executive orders, and the balance of power tilting once again towards the blood-bloated feticide monopoly Planned Parenthood. And speak of the Devil, the Satanic Temple is at it again as well, this time in Texas. I’ve followed the pro-abortion efforts of the Satanic Temple in the space for a couple of years. Last August, they launched a campaign claiming that “Satanic Abortions Are Protected By Religious Liberty Laws,”...

From the time the Catholic Church established the university system in the so-called Dark Ages, when scientific method was devised at the Cathedral School at Chartres, lively exchange of ideas in science, philosophy, theology, law and the arts has been the fuel to advance Western Civilization. Built on the best of Roman and Greek civilizations, she made course corrections that ultimately draw on the promise of redemption God gave our first parents. Adam and Eve paid the price for their own failure to exercise their authority over creation given to humanity made in His image and likeness. Cain’s and Abel’s...

Secretary of Hillary Clinton’s suspicious, self-diagnosed “concussion” presents some interesting possibilities. She claims she fainted, fell and struck her head hard enough to have sustained the “concussion” which she is now relying upon to avoid having to lie about her part in the Benghazi cover up during a Congressional hearing. To her adoring media this story presents not a moment of skepticism but another chance to marvel at how skillfully the Clintons lie. That Hillary did not seek or receive medical attention for such a serious injury as a concussion; (especially for an obese 65 year old woman) means little...

In short, the two Washington liberals want taxes raised on everyone because they object to upper income earners - the very earners who invest and start business that hire Washington workers - keeping some of their own money.Fox News reports the two members are working on a letter with Peter DeFazio (D-OR) to present to the House Democratic Caucus.The letter reportedly asks Pelosi to not bring the measure up for a vote. The plan is to get 60 signatures on the letter, reportedly still being drafted, and then force a vote in the caucus. DeFazio says the bill should...

Democrats are taking a beating, according to polls over the last two weeks, showing that the American people are less than enchanted with one-party control of Congress and the White House. A USA Today/Gallop poll from August 27 – 30 reflects that 78 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the United States, while only 20 percent of the respondents were satisfied. Read more

Garrison Keillor tries to enjoy Memorial Day at the National Gallery, honoring our fallen heroes by going to an art exhibit ... ...on we went to show our patriotism by looking at exhibits at the Smithsonian or, in my case, hiking around the National Gallery, which, after you've watched a few thousand Harleys pass, seems like an outpost of civilization. There stood Renoir's ballerina in pale blue chiffon and Monet's children in the garden of sunflowers. And Mary Cassatt's The Boating Party, which I stood and stared at for a long time. A lady in a white bonnet sits in...

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Head Slovak Bishop: Fighting Western Liberalism is "a Major Task of the Church" By John-Henry WestenKONIGSTEIN, Germany, June 29, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Chairman of Slovakia's Bishops' Conference gave a talk at Aid to the Church in Need headquarters in Germany Tuesday saying that the defence of Gospel values against an increasing influence of Western Liberalism is "a major task of the Church."Bishop Frantisek Tondra of Spis in East Slovakia, explained: "Liberalism is predominant in Slovakia's mass media, thus infiltrating and subverting Christian values, family values and the values of life in the public opinion. This happens in particular...

THE ANTI-DOGMA DOGMA. Fact Finders by Jonathan Chait Post date 02.22.05 | Issue date 02.28.05 Imagine that God were to appear on Earth for the unlikely purpose of settling, once and for all, our disputes over economic policy. And suppose that, to my enormous surprise, he announced that every empirical claim advanced by conservatives was correct. Cutting taxes produces such great economic growth that even the poor benefit. Privatizing or eliminating social programs like Medicare and Social Security will cause the elderly to save more money and enjoy higher living standards. Slashing regulations, by eliminating unintended side effects, actually does...

According to the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, a liberal is someone broad-minded who is not bound by authoritarianism or orthodoxy. Ah, brings to mind benevolent images of the ever-tolerant Paul Begala, doesn't it? Did someone say open-minded, independent, and understanding? Must be talking about that moderate James Carville -- when he's not interrupting, berating, and screaming at people who disagree with him, that is. You see, Begala and Carville are liberals in not the dictionary sense but the political sense. They are liberals: leftists who are known as liberal, but are really dogmatically rigid about imposing their interventionist views on everyone...

Did Wellstone's Death Foretell Defeat Of Liberalism? Yes, Gov. Gray Davis won reelection in California, Frank Lautenberg took (as in “stole”) a senate seat in New Jersey, and the Democrats claimed several governorships, but without a doubt the Republicans easily carried the day in historic proportions last night. Conservatism, albeit “Bush Style,” swept through America from coast to coast in a way not seen since Ronald Reagan became the standard by which all conservatives are judged. And while there remains a few smoldering bastions of liberalism left, one defining event may have served as a foretelling of last night’s rout...