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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.
A few years back, I went door to door handing out pro-life DVD’s and engaging in discussions about abortion. It was quite the experience! I noticed many people didn’t understand the term “pro-life.” Eventually, I learned I had to use...
For years, a steady drumbeat of Christian pastors, musicians, and authors have announced they’ve “evolved” on the issue of homosexuality. Authors like Matthew Vines and more recently, Jen Hatmaker, musician Nicole Nordeman and Yale philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff argue that the...
The United States of America was founded as an extraordinary experiment in freedom balanced by an almost universal worldview — the Christian or biblical worldview — which supplied inward moral constraints and rendered heavy handed government unnecessary and even repugnant....
12.01.16
My liberal friends sometimes ask me why I don't devote more of my science journalism to the sins of the Right. It's fine to expose pseudoscience on the left, they say, but why aren't you an equal-opportunity debunker? Why not write about conservatives' threat to science?
By John Biver
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11.30.16
Anyone paying the least bit of attention to Illinois government knows the state is a fiscal mess, and the ongoing drama being played out between our Republican governor and Democrat General Assembly is like a long-running TV soap opera.
The...
