Tag Archives: Ronald Reagan

UNESCO: Indoctrinating Humanity With Collectivist ‘Education’

Posted on April 19, 2021 by David E Smith

As the tyrants of the world have discovered by experience over more than a century, subduing people under collectivist rule for any length of time can be difficult—especially if the people can read and think, and if they know their history. But if the children can be brainwashed into collectivism early on in government schools, the process becomes much easier.

Posted in Education | Tagged Alan Romberg, and Cultural Organization, Donald Trump, eugenics, Humanist Manifesto, Julian Huxley, National Socialists, Pierce Gerety, Ronald Reagan, Scientific, UNESCO, United Nations Educational, William Norman Grigg | Comments Off

Going Beyond The Pro-Life Mexico City Policy

Posted on February 12, 2021 by David E Smith

This January marked the 48th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion across America. And recently, President Joe Biden rescinded the Mexico City Policy, which bans U.S. foreign aid to organizations that provide or promote abortion. Both serve as grim reminders of the millions of unborn children whose lives have been aborted – currently an estimated 44 million worldwide each year, with an annual average of more than 1.3 million in the U.S. since 1973.

Posted in Sanctity of Life | Tagged Abortion, abortion counseling, Joe Biden, Mexico City Policy, Roe v. Wade, Ronald Reagan | Comments Off

Harvard Law Professor Wants to Ban Homeschooling

Posted on April 22, 2020 by David E Smith

An article written by freelance writer Erin O’Donnell and published in Harvard Magazine has justifiably gone viral among the diverse homeschooling communities operating in the United States—for the moment the freest nation in the world. The article, titled “The Risks of Homeschooling,” is accompanied by a cartoon illustration of half a dozen children romping joyfully outside while one child locked behind the prison bars of her own home looks forlornly and longingly out at them. One of the exterior walls of her home depicts books with the words “Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Bible” to ensure readers know that the …

Posted in Education | Tagged Arizona Law Review, Cardus Education Survey, Elizabeth Bartholet, Erin O’Donnell, Harvard Magazine, he Washington Post, Homeschool Legal Defense Association, Joseph A. Morris, Marxism, Ronald Reagan, The Communist Manifesto, The New York Times | Comments Off

Taking Pride in Down Syndrome Children

Posted on October 28, 2019 by David E Smith

My family just visited Chocolate World at Hershey Park in Hershey, Pennsylvania—the so-called “sweetest place on earth.” For those unfamiliar, it’s a giant candy-land. The primary attraction is a tour where visitors ride in self-guided vehicles through an exhibit learning about the history of Hershey’s chocolate.

Posted in Sanctity of Life | Tagged Abortion, Cardinal Terence Cooke, Chocolate World, Down Syndrome, Down Syndrome Awareness Month, Dr. Paul Kengor, Iceland, Kari Stefansson, Margaret Sanger, Respect Life Month, Ronald Reagan | Comments Off

Now More Than Ever

Posted on February 22, 2019 by Jenna Smith

It wasn’t so long ago that such a thing would be unthinkable: a standing ovation for abortion in the New York State Senate chamber with the passage of legislation permitting abortion for any reason up until the moment of birth. Already in New York City, one in three babies are aborted. The bill goes so far as to drop the requirement that doctors perform abortions and decriminalizes acts of violence that result in the deaths of unborn babies. In other words, if an unborn baby dies in the commission of an act of violence against his or her mother, the …

Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture, Sanctity of Life | Tagged Abortion, Bill Clinton, Democrat Party, Donald Trump, George H. W. Bush, Hyde Amendment, Jimmy Carter, March for Life, Medicaid, Nelson Rockefeller, New York, New York legislature, New York's abortion bill, roe vs. wade, Ronald Reagan | Comments Off

To Know Socialism is to Hate It

Posted on February 13, 2019 by David E Smith

We keep saying that socialism is bad, but our message isn’t being believed. Maybe we don’t fully believe it ourselves. So let’s dig deeper and understand just how bad, and how anti-Christian, socialism really is. This article examines how American society changes when socialists get to run things. You’ll see, quoting the socialists themselves, how:

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alexandra Kollontai, Frederick Engels, Karl Marx, Kate Brown, ObamaCare, Ronald Reagan, Samuel Adams, Socialism, Stella Morabito | Comments Off

Why Some Conservatives Don’t Like Social Justice

Posted on July 31, 2018 by David E Smith

When you look at the history of Christianity in the West, it is largely defined (despite popular anti-Christian myth to the contrary) by Christians promoting social justice and charity for the poor and underprivileged. No other social group has been responsible for more positive social reform and improvements for the underprivileged, sick and downtrodden than Christians.

Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged Catholic News Service, Jonathan Edwards, Karl Marx, Lawrence W. Reed, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Salvation Army, Social Justice, Social Justice Theology, Social Justice Warriors, Socialism, William Wilberforce | Comments Off

A Black-Robed Counterrevolution

Posted on April 18, 2018 by David E Smith

Federal judges sit on the bench for life and can either uphold the law or rule like tyrants. This puts judicial appointments right near the top of the most important things a president can do.

The newest U.S. Supreme Court justice, Neil Gorsuch, has already shown what a difference a constitutionalist can make. But we need many more to counter the hundreds of Clinton, Obama and Jimmy Carter-appointed judges who issue zany rulings that override common sense and thwart democratically enacted popular will.

A case in point is U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves, a 2010 Obama appointee. In …

Posted in Federal | Tagged 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Carlton Reeves, Dianne Feinstein, Donald Trump, George W. Bush, Neil Gorsuch, net neutrality, Ronald Reagan, voter ID law | Comments Off

Identity Politics: Is America and the World Running Out of Patience with LGBTQIA Activism?

Posted on February 22, 2018 by David E Smith

The topic of identity politics and the widening opportunity it presents to conservatives continues to be a hot topic. Here are just three examples from recent op eds.

First up is Glenn Stanton writing at Public Discourse:

Is America Running Out of Patience with LGBT Activism?

From surprisingly fast and unexpected victory can come great hubris and the desire to utterly crush one’s opponents.

GLAAD, a leading gay advocacy outfit, released a new report showing that positive attitudes toward homosexuality and people who identify as LGBT have decreased a bit over the last few years. They sum up their

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Posted in Sexuality | Tagged Chad Felix Greene, Glenn Stanton, lgbt agenda, Ronald Reagan, Stefano Gennarini, U.S. State Department, United Nations | Comments Off

Culture War Victory Still Possible for Conservatives

Posted on July 25, 2017 by David E Smith

What we call the pro-family movement is a component of the larger conservative movement and deals with matters of sexuality and the natural family. Its American roots are in the cultural backlash to the Marxist revolution of the 1960s that turned family-centered society on its head and swapped the Judeo-Christian morality of our founding for Soviet-style “political correctness.”

Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged Alfred Kinsey, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Bowers v Hardwick, Cultural Marxism, Donald Trump, Frankfort School, Griswold v Connecticut, Hugh Hefner, Lawrence v. Texas, Neil Gorsuch, No Special Rights Act, Obergefell v. Hodges, Robert Bork, Roe v. Wade, Romer v Evans, Ronald Reagan, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Scott Lively, sexual anarchy, Steven Broyer | Comments Off

Vote on Your Knees

Posted on October 24, 2016 by aswillis

America is not like most other nations around the world. We have a different history and heritage. America is a nation that was founded on prayer. That is something we should not forget during this election year.

A History of Prayer in America

In December of 1621, Gov. William Bradford and the Pilgrims in Massachusetts called for a day of thanksgiving and prayer to Almighty God for His provision and protection.

During the Revolutionary War, Congress issued a total of 15 official proclamations, calling for times of fasting and prayer.

On the celebration of the first national Thanksgiving Day, President …

Posted in Faith | Tagged Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, IFI Prayer Team, John Hancock, Prayer, Ronald Reagan, William Bradford | Comments Off

Religious Persecution: Coming to America?

Posted on September 6, 2016 by David E Smith

In 1929, Josef Stalin signed a law that dealt a devastating blow to religious freedom in Russia. For most of a century, Russian Christians suffered enormous persecutions for their faith. Some estimates suggest that as many as 20,000,000 Christians may have been martyred in prison camps in the 20^th century for holding to their faith. One historian stated that over 85,000 Russian Orthodox Priests were shot in 1937 alone.

Communism, despite its slogans of equality and social utopia, has never come through on its promises. Stalin’s draconian measures were reaffirmed by Leonid Brezhnev’s updated legislation in 1975. A …

Posted in Religious Liberty | Tagged ACLU, American Atheists, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, Anthony Scailia, Boris Yeltsin, Christian Persecution, Dr. Albert Mohler, Dr. Erwin Lutzer, Eric Metaxas, Jerry Johnson, Josef Stalin, KGB, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Richard Dawkins, Ronald Reagan, Russell Moore, Russian Orthodox Church, Vladimir Putin | Comments Off

Cannabis Myths Exposed

Posted on May 13, 2016 by David E Smith

I retired after three decades as a prosecutor. While in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, I drafted a training manual called Narcotics Law which was later used in the office as a manual for Assistant States Attorneys for over a decade and years after I retired. After I retired I have defended people accused of violating the Cannabis Control Act. Knowing how the system really works, I can dispel several cannabis myths.

Posted in Marijuana | Tagged Cannabis Control Act, Center for Youth Substance Abuse Research at the University of Queensland, Edward Ronkowski, Narcotics Law, Ronald Reagan, Second Chance Probation, Treatment Alternatives to Street Crime, Wayne Hall | Comments Off

Tarry Not For the Sunshine

Posted on August 28, 2015 by David E Smith

The housing market wasn’t the only bubble which burst in 2008. It was the first time many Christian conservatives realized just how much had changed and how far afield we had corporately strayed. Not only were our most stable assets, our homes and banking institutions, vulnerable to predation and illusory in their permanence, but our friends, neighbors, and even family members were gullible enough to drool over a nebulous politician from Chicago who planned to harness the political machinery in Washington to heal the planet.

For many, this was the first inkling that something was rotten in Denmark. Not that …

Posted in Faith | Tagged Ronald Reagan, William F. Buckley Jr. | Comments Off

One Generation Away from Losing Our Freedom?

Posted on October 9, 2014 by David E Smith

In 1967 Ronald Reagan said we’re never more than one generation away from losing our freedom. A new documentary shows why he was right.

Posted in Religious Liberty | Tagged Alliance Defending Freedom, Hobby Lobby, Marge Christensen, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, Ronald Reagan, Ryan Anderson | Comments Off