Politics

August 2, 2018

Why People Keep Falling for Socialism, Despite the Evidence

By Walter E. Williams, The Stream - The poverty line that the Census Bureau used in 2016 for a single person was an income of $12,486 that year. For a two-person household, it was $16,072, and for a four-person household, it was $24,755... To beat those poverty thresholds is fairly simple. Here’s the road map: complete high school; get a job, any kind of a job; get married before having children; and be a law-abiding citizen... How about some numbers? A single person taking a minimum wage job would earn an annual income of $15,080. A married couple would earn $30,160.

August 2, 2018

Paul Kengor: ‘A Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism and Socialism’

By Emilie Cochran, CNSNews - In his presentation, “A Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism and Socialism,” Kengor aimed to give the students attending the conference the education they will not get at their liberal universities… Marx (1818-1883) acknowledged that communism, particularly its views on property, were contrary to the “social and political order of things,” Kengor said. This view, along with the fact that communism seeks to “abolish the present state of things” and believes there are no moral absolutes, is the opposite of conservatism…

August 2, 2018

Facebook Censors Story Exposing Company Hauling Away Boxes of Babies Killed in Late-Term Abortions

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews - Facebook is getting more and more backlash from the pro-life movement over its censorship of pro-life content. Now the social media giant is censoring another story — this time it’s one exposing a company that was found to be hauling away boxes of babies killed in late-term abortions... Dozens of LifeNews readers notified us today that they had problems sharing the important story on Facebook.

August 2, 2018

Anthony Esolen: It Never Was About Anything Else

By Anthony Esolen, Cardinal Newman Society - I bring the matter up, because one of the signers at Land O’ Lakes was the now disgraced Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, at that time the president of the Catholic University of Puerto Rico. McCarrick was also one of the main movers in Dallas in 2002, when the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops twisted themselves into pretzels so as not to bring up the staggeringly plain facts of the clergy sex scandal.