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January 14, 2020

2020: Year of the Woman? by David Nussman

By David Nussman, Church Militant - This year marks the 100th anniversary of women in the United States obtaining the right to vote — one of several reasons why commentators are calling 2020 "the year of the woman.".. Another reason is the prominent role that women will have on election day this year — both as candidates and as voters… The 2016 election saw a sharp divide between the sexes. Exit polls showed men voted for Donald Trump at a significantly higher rate than women.

January 14, 2020

Sir Roger Scruton on Connection Between Modern Art and Loss of the Sacred

By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register - The English philosopher Sir Roger Scruton, who died yesterday at the age of 75… In 2009, he attended a Rome conference titled “God Today: With Him or Without Him, That Changes Everything” that brought together thinkers, artists and Church leaders… While in Rome, Scruton, who had been a professor of aesthetics, discussed his theory that the deeper reasons for the ugliness of modern and contemporary art are attributable to a general loss of the Christian faith and the sacred. “I think we are losing beauty and there is a danger that, with it, we will lose the meaning of life,” he warned in an acclaimed BBC documentary on the same theme.

January 14, 2020

Opinion: The GOP Establishment is Dead, Thanks to the Trump Revolution. And That’s Fantastic News, by Steve Hilton

By Steve Hilton, FOX News - But his strategy has been consistent from day one. He is anti-war, but he is also anti-weak. No, he doesn't want to invade deserts of sand like the neocons, but he doesn't want to put his head in the sand, like the isolation nuts, either… It was the same over Syria -- withdrawing troops from a conflict that is someone else's business, but a missile strike if you use chemical weapons… You saw it with North Korea -- fire and fury and then historic negotiations… This is the Trump Revolution: Pragmatic, non-ideological. He approaches issues as a problem-solving businessman… … The establishment Republican Party is not coming back. It is dead, killed by their policy failure and Donald Trump's policy success.

January 14, 2020

Utah Lt. Governor: “Abortion Will Go Down as One of the Greatest Travesties in the History of Humankind”, by Micaiah Bilger

By Micaiah Bilger, LifeNews - Abortion will be condemned someday as “one of the greatest travesties in the history of humankind,” Utah Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox said Saturday… “I truly believe that at some point in the future, future generations will look back on us today, and they will…look at abortion the way we look at slavery. It will go down in history as one of the greatest travesties in the history of humankind,” Cox said, Newsweek reports.