“I can’t presume to know exactly what my uncle would say about the current debate over school vouchers and choice, but I know the principles he taught. . . . [A]ll Americans should want the public schools to be the very best they can be, but we must make it possible for all people to [...]
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“I am beseiged. The enemy has demanded surrender at discretion…I call on you in the name of liberty, of patriotism, and everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid…If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what [...]
Some folks, it seems, just never learn. Especially doom-and-gloomers. In 1980, the late economist Julian Simon made a bet with Paul Ehrlich, author of the best-selling 1968 book, The Population Bomb. The bet concerned commodity prices and was intended to illustrate a point. Simon wagered prices would fall; Ehrlich said they would rise. Both men agreed that higher [...]
It’s been a bad year for Faye Wattleton. And she has her own extremism to thank for it. On November 5, President Bush signed into law what Bill Clinton had vetoed repeatedly — a ban on partial-birth abortion. It had no trouble passing both houses of Congress, no threatened Democrat filibusters: in fact, even Clinton’s [...]
You would have never heard of Karl Marx had it not been for V.I. Lenin. Marx was neither terribly successful nor terribly important in his own right, and had it not been for a revolution carried out three decades after his death, he would be a footnote at best. But on this May Day, the [...]
Thirty years after Roe v. Wade, Americans gathered this morning on the National Mall to remember the dead. But this year, they also came to rally the living, because the hope of victory hangs palpably in the air. The past two years have been good ones for the pro-lifers. George Walker Bush speaks with conviction of [...]
Ask Christians today where they stand in the Republican Party, and many of them will tell you a tale of woe. The Christian Coalition was a flash in the pan, some say: it sold them out and disappeared. A few talk of bolting to a third party, although the trickle out to those has reversed [...]
So was September 11th God’s judgment on America or not? It’s a good question. In the immediate aftermath of the horrors of that day, Christian commentators fell all over themselves to join Bill Clinton in pronouncing just that. And in the shock of the moment, it certainly seemed right: America’s sins are many, and repentance [...]
The sun came up today, for the first time in nine years. That’s how many pro-life Americans feel this day, the first Roe anniversary post-Clinton. For the first time in a long time, there is real hope, a hope that the killing may stop. George Walker Bush is unabashedly a man of pro-life conviction, a man of [...]
It’s been a generation since Americans started killing their young. True, we had abortions before Roe v. Wade. But we didn’t have the explosion, to one and a half million a year, all U.S.-approved. We didn’t have the casual disregard of life we have today, either: feminists used to call abortion “child murder”; and middle-aged doctors [...]
Today, the Senate begins debate on S.1692, its third attempt to ban partial birth abortion. Twice before, Bill Clinton has vetoed a ban on the most barbaric “medical” procedure ever utilized outside Nazi Germany, and twice a handful of left-wing extremists in the Senate has helped him along. In so doing, Clinton has merely shown [...]
It’s only been a year since we were writing about Jonesboro. I really didn’t want to write this column. I didn’t ever want to write another column like it again. But that’s just the point. What was once an unheard-of topic is now becoming almost routine. Only the locations – and the stylistic bent of [...]
The bad news is that the battle lines are now clearly drawn. The good news is that the battle lines are now clearly drawn. The Senate’s resounding affirmation of our felon-President brings us to a new chapter in American history. There are no two ways about it; on this point one cannot be over-dramatic. The [...]
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