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12.19.16
“In the absence of faith, we govern by tenderness. And tenderness leads to the gas chamber,” said Flannery O’Connor. Her point was that sentimentality cannot restrain the darker forces in human nature. Which brings us to the Catholic bishops of eastern Canada.
By Monte Larrick
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12.19.16
The very secular home of state government in Illinois is now the site of a nativity scene and it is all so legal for it to be there.
12.17.16
Ever since Donald Trump was elected president, there’s been an abundance of hand-wringing over the “fake news” that supposedly is rampant on social media.
Yet missing has been any kind of serious searching among the mainstream media about whether it could learn any lessons from this election—and whether reporters and editors are holding themselves accountable to their supposed values of objectivity and rigorous reporting.
12.15.16
Imagine this: Upon taking his oath of office, President Donald Trump instructs his new attorney general, Jeff Sessions, to ignore civil rights laws.
How would that go over?
In June of 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that same-sex couples could not be denied marriage licenses by states. However, on December 8, 2016, the Arkansas Supreme Court correctly ruled that the Obergefell decision should...
Earlier today, Gov. John Kasich of Ohio signed into law protection for the unborn at 20 weeks. This law has an exception for abortions that are necessary to save the mother’s life or prevent serious risk of substantial bodily impairment. ...
The Ohio legislature has sent a bill to Governor John Kasich that will legally protect unborn babies from abortion once a heartbeat can be detected. The law makes it a fifth-degree felony to abort an unborn human without checking for a heartbeat or aborting after the baby's heartbeat can be detected. It also opens the door to civil lawsuits and disciplinary action.
By John Biver
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12.12.16
The Chicago Tribune reported this last Friday on the dubious goings on at the Illinois Lottery:
A Tribune investigation found the Illinois Lottery collected hundreds of millions of dollars from selling tickets to instant games in which it did not...
12.09.16
Marriage rates in the United States are at an all-time low. Reported cases of sexually transmitted diseases are at an all-time high. These two statistics share a clear and direct relationship, although you would not know it from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s annual reporting on the STD epidemic. What is so hard about saying what is true?
12.07.16
More evidence points to the harm of pornography, most recently a university study covering seven nations.
