Politics

March 23, 2018

What the New Pro-Life Movement Didn’t Do for a Pro-Life Dem

By Austin Ruse, Crisis Magazine - The latest test for the so-called Seamless Garment came in the primary challenge to pro-life Democrat Dan Lipinski in his effort to win his party’s nomination for the seat he has held in suburban Illinois for 13 years… But we have established that the Seamless Garment is now and has always been something of a scam. Earlier this year, fourteen Seamless Garment Catholics in the U.S. Senate, all but two of them Democrats, voted against even debating the 20-week abortion ban.

March 22, 2018

Politics: John Brennan’s Thwarted Coup

By George Neumayr, American Spectator - Out of power, these aging radicals can’t help themselves. They had their shot to stop Trump, they failed, and now they are furious. The adolescent coup talk grows more feverish with each passing day. We have a former CIA director calling for the overthrow of a duly elected president, a former attorney general (Eric Holder) calling for a “knife fight,”....

March 20, 2018

Hate Speech Is a Myth Used to Steal Basic Freedoms

By John Zmirak, a Senior Editor, The Stream - “Hate speech” as a crime should not exist. We ought to stop using the term, and treat it as what it is: A political myth, a fake unicorn.... Sweden kneecaps its police by forbidding physical descriptions of criminal suspects. Liberals there just couldn’t stand hearing, over and over again, the words “Middle-Eastern male” broadcast on television.

March 14, 2018

How Europe’s Way of Denial Became a Way of Death

By Samuel Gregg, The Witherspoon Institute - Plainly, Europe’s experience of Muslim migration indicates that reducing Europe’s distinctiveness to a mantra of respect-tolerance-diversity is extracting a huge cost in terms of public order and confidence in the police and justice system.