“Pro-choice” Advocates Often Inconsistent
I have been inveighing for so long against the hypocrisy of the “pro-choice” advocates, both in and out of government, that some people in my home state of New Hampshire have...
Family
Paying It Forward From Pittsburgh to Chicago
The concept of “paying it forward” — doing a good deed while asking only that the person helped would in turn help someone else — provided the motivation for a Good...
Freedom and Progress
For more than two centuries, freedom has been the catchword of Western Civilization. What began as an abstraction from the pens of Locke, Sidney, Montesquieu, Beccaria, and others has become, in...
The America We Knew and Loved
A well-used copy of Consumer Reports dated March 2009 caught my eye in the doctor’s reception area. The cover story: “Great old appliances.” Owners stood beside their still-operational refrigerators (1926), toasters...
Consolations of Bachelorhood on Father’s Day
“Marriage has many difficulties, but celibacy has no pleasures,” said Samuel Johnson. Whether Johnson was exaggerating or was right on the bull’s eye, there is no doubt that celibacy has many...
Same-sex Benefits Sidestep the Law
President Barack Obama on June 17 issued a presidential memorandum that extended a number of benefits to same-sex partners of federal workers. The move received mixed reviews by homosexual rights activists,...
Putting Hollywood in the Hallowed
First there were “inclusive language” Bibles, which extended a bizarre form of chivalry to feminists with lexical peculiarities such as “Our Mother/Father who art in Heaven.” Now, there is something equally...
Home Bible Study Threatened in Bonito, Calif.
If the Chinese need any help with their crackdown on the Falun Gong religious group, perhaps they should try to recruit San Diego County bureaucrats. Because if a recent attempt on...
Obama’s Proclamation of Gay Pride Month
Forgive us for being a bit late in reporting this, but this entire month has been dedicated to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. So dedicated by whom, you ask?...
Schooling in the Third Millennium: Bible Out, Sodom In
If anyone needs more evidence as to how we live in a topsy-turvy age of moral turpitude, two recent news stories provide it. One is out of the Marple Newtown School...
New Hampshire Climbs on “Gay” Marriage Bandwagon
New Hampshire Governor John Lynch on June 3 signed legislation establishing marriage “regardless of gender” in the the Granite State, immediately after both houses of the General Court (Legislature) of New...
13-Year-Old Cancer Victim & Parental Rights
Every so often there is a case in which parents refuse to submit their child to medical treatment, citing religious beliefs. The most recent example is the saga of Daniel Hauser,...
Adding “Sexual Orientation” to Hate-crime Statutes
It’s ironic that secularists will accuse traditionalists of being hung up on sex, when they are the ones who cannot stop talking about it and reducing it to the stuff of...
California’s High Court Upholds Proposition 8
In a 6-1 ruling yesterday, the California Supreme Court voted to uphold Proposition 8, which amended the state’s constitution so as to define marriage as the union between a man and...
Notre Dame: Tragedy and Hope
At the University of Notre Dame, opposition to the granting of an honorary Doctor of Laws degree to commencement speaker Barack Obama, president of the United States and the nation’s most...