Written by Benjamin Smith
While the Life issue doesn’t seem to be winning in the Illinois legislature, we know it’s winning elsewhere. This episode of Spotlight is an interview Monte Larrick conducted with Sue Thayer, the Director of Outreach for 40 Days for Life. She describes the results of a 40 day vigil outside an abortion clinic, and she takes us inside an abortion worker’s mindset.
They also discussed the advent of webcam and chemical take-home abortions, and tips and details for attending a 40 Days for Life prayer vigil.… Continue Reading
Written by Abigail Moreno-Riano
Earlier this year, the state of New York legalized abortion up until birth, and the governor and abortion activists then proceeded to celebrate this loss of life as a joyous occasion. Now, another crisis of human dignity was narrowly averted after New York came close to passing the first ever complete decriminalization of prostitution.
While Nevada is the only other state to legalize forms of prostitution, New York’s bill is the most extensive bill that has ever been introduced, and as these authors noted, “would only turn mostly women and girls into ‘commodities to be bought and sold.’”… Continue Reading
Tags: abortion, decriminalizing prostitution, Feminism, human dignity, Julia Salazar, Prostitution, Sanctuary for Families, sex work
Marriage, Family & Culture, Pornography, Sanctity of Life | David E. Smith |
September 17, 2019 5:59 AM |
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Written by William Sullivan
In the scope of modern history, population control as a means to reduce scarcity of resources is anything but a new idea, despite what socialists like Bernie Sanders would have you believe.
Bernie Sanders recently proposed that America should finance abortions in developing countries in order to save the planet from the coming scarcity of global resources that will occur as a result of overpopulation and “climate change.” Another way for this to be understood, as it certainly would have been had a Republican uttered this policy prescription, is that the best way to save the planet is to keep poor people from being born, because they might sap vital resources that could be better used by the rest of us.… Continue Reading
Tags: A Christmas Carol, Art Caden, Bart Stupak, Bernie Sanders, birth control, Charles Dickens, contraceptives, Forbes, Industrial Revolution, Margaret Sanger, Nancy Pelosi, Overpopulation, surplus population, Thomas Malthus
Sanctity of Life | David E. Smith |
September 16, 2019 6:00 AM |
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Written by Dr. Everett Piper
Summer is over. School has started. Students from coast to coast have returned to their college campuses, and the nation waits with bated breath as to what will happen next.
Will the self-absorbed snowflake insanity persist? Will you continue to hear cries of “you offended me” and “trigger warnings” in the halls of the academy? Will the demands for “safe spaces” continue to trump the study of science? Will the fixation on “micro-aggressions” continue to be more important than teaching morality?… Continue Reading
Tags: American University, Berkeley, Emory University, John Carroll, Michigan State, Santa Clara, Southern Illinois University, Star Parker, University of California-San Diego, University of Missouri, University of Northern Colorado, University of Northwestern-St. Paul, University of Wyoming, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest, Yale
Education | David E. Smith |
September 14, 2019 4:00 AM |
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Written by David Limbaugh
Perhaps Mayor Pete Buttigieg would have a better shot at appealing to Christian voters if he would not go to such extreme lengths to contort Scripture to rationalize his party’s abominable stance on abortion.
The Democratic presidential candidate openly expresses his Christian faith and was the first candidate to hire a national faith outreach director. He believes political conservatism is less compatible with Christianity than political liberalism.
Buttigieg says the GOP likes “to cloak itself in their language of religion” and accuses Republicans of hypocrisy for their alleged callousness about family separations at the border.… Continue Reading
Tags: abortion, Bible, Joe Scarborough, MSNBC, Pete Buttigieg, pregnancy, Redistribution of wealth, Rhyan Glezman, welfare state
Federal Elections, Political | David E. Smith |
September 13, 2019 7:00 AM |
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Written by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
Climate change is one of those issues that the bien-pensants around the world all agree upon. We must act! If we do not act, people will lose their beach houses. Plants will wither and die. Birds will fall from the sky. Just last week, whole communities in the Caribbean were swept away.
There are, however, problems with eliminating or ameliorating climate change. For one thing, modern technology cannot seem to keep up with people’s ability to dream.… Continue Reading
Written by Benjamin Smith
Monte Larrick and David Smith welcome the Reverend Dr. Wes Modder to this week’s edition of Spotlight. Pastor Modder is a former Navy chaplain and a retired lieutenant commander who served as a Marine in Operation Desert Storm. He currently is the lead pastor of the Rock Church in Orland Hills, Illinois.
On the eighteenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, it is fitting that the podcast begins with a discussion of how Americans, specifically Christians, ought to live in light of the events of that horrific day.… Continue Reading
Written by Stephen Moore
Is the left once again embracing Malthusian population control in order to save the planet?
Of all the preposterous proposals put forward by the Democratic presidential candidates during the CNN climate change town hall meeting last week, the dumbest wasn’t outlawing plastic straws, incandescent light bulbs or air travel. It wasn’t the contention that climate change is the globe’s greatest threat since World War II. It wasn’t even the fantastical hypothesis that hurricanes are racist because they target “communities of color” more than white areas.… Continue Reading
Tags: 2020 Election, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Climate Change, CNN, Global Warming, Julian Simon, Miley Cyrus, plastic straw ban, Population control, Prince Harry, University of Illinois
Federal Elections, Political, Sanctity of Life | David E. Smith |
September 10, 2019 7:00 AM |
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Written by Daniel Horowitz
Why aren’t Republicans pounding the lectern with righteous indignation about violent gun felons being let off easy by the judicial system the same way Democrats engage in cerebral gyrations over guns? Democrats have sob stories for their gun control agenda. Republicans need to look no farther than Chicago as the poster child for criminal control.
On June 23, 2017, Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson stood beside then-Gov. Bruce Rauner and celebrated the passage of a bill stiffening sentences on gun felons.… Continue Reading
Tags: Anthony Guglielmi, Bruce Rauner, Carol Howard, Chicago Police, Chicago Tribune, Eddie Johnson, Illinois Department of Corrections, jailbreak, Joaquin Urcino, John Kass
Crime Culture, Illinois Politics | David E. Smith |
September 9, 2019 6:00 AM |
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