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Department of Defense Drops SPLC as Trusted Source
10.10.17
The Pentagon is being praised for its decision to stop using material provided by the left-leaning Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which has labeled some conservative organizations as "hate groups."
Hugh Hefner’s Real Legacy: Disease, Despair, and Death
10.09.17
A timely and stunning statistic befitting the recent death of America’s patriarch of pornography: a shocking 110 million Americans -- over one-third of our population -- are saddled with a sexually transmitted disease...
What Truth Do We Honor?
10.09.17
In his commentary on the Las Vegas tragedy, Psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow mentions psychological denial as a way people avoid thinking about human vulnerabilities. Human vulnerability refers to our fear of being wounded ("vulnera" in Latin means "wound"). We fear bodily harm or, most often, bruising to our fragile egos. Thus, we deny hard personal truths which we want desperately to avoid, desperately not to face. Denial is an attempt to escape.
U.S. House Passes Legislation to Ban Late-Term Abortions
By David E. Smith   |   10.04.17
With a vote of 237 to 189, the U.S. House voted yesterday to pass H.R. 36, the 20-week ban on abortion.  The official title of this important legislation is the "Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act," which restricts most abortions after 20 weeks of gestation, with limited exceptions.  It also specifies that any baby born alive in the process of an abortion should be given the same care as a baby born prematurely.
Censoring Sermons
10.04.17
For more than 60 years, the IRS has used the “Johnson Amendment” to censor what churches and pastors preach from the pulpit. Under the Johnson Amendment, pastors' First Amendment rights have become bargaining chips to be exchanged for a tax status. Pastors who share truth on biblical issues – like the sanctity of life and marriage – could risk intrusive IRS audits, incur steep fines, and even jeopardize their church’s tax-exempt status.
Pro-Life Leaders React to Gov. Rauner Signing HB 40
By Monte Larrick   |   10.04.17
What will the fallout be from Illinois' new anti-baby law? How will voters and the pro-life community respond to House Bill 40 and the prospect of more abortions and taxpayers dollars to pay for them.
Religious Freedom Cases Stacking Up
By   |   10.03.17
Court cases across the country continue to point to the big showdown coming soon at the U.S. Supreme Court.In the ongoing legal battles over religious freedom, there are advances and setback. One win happened last month. When Amy Larson, a ...
The Culture War Is Not Over: Leftists Fight Over Identity Politics
By John Biver   |   10.02.17
Here is a recent headline from the Independent Journal Review: “Salon: Identity Politics Is ‘Dragging the Progressive Agenda Down.’” IJR’s Pardes Seleha explains that yes, indeed, a “far-left publication” [Salon] is “finally denouncing its long-embraced identity politics…” Salon isn’t the...
Series: Identity Politics & Paraphilias
By John Biver   |   09.30.17
The cultural war is going to continue to become weirder. Some might reasonably think that nothing stranger can follow the Leftists’ call for everyone to accept transgenderism as normal. But then there are all those other letters that follow the “T” in LGBT. You may have seen different variations on the list: LGBTQIA is a popular one (Q=queer or questioning/I=intersex/A=Ally).
Google and Target Among Corporations Backing LGBT ‘Civil Rights’ Bill
By   |   09.30.17
A hundred major corporations, ranging from Target to American Airlines to Best Buy, have signed on to an LGBTQ activist coalition supporting the “Equality Act,” which would federalize homosexuality and transgenderism as “civil rights” categories in the law.
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