The Narthex
Hats Off to Harbaugh
The famed Michigan coach isn't afraid to speak of his beliefs in front of cameras
By Barbara Rose | July 27th 2022 3:55 PMMichigan football coach Jim Harbaugh recently spoke at a local pro-life fundraising event, and afterward he was criticized in the usual quarters. But instead of retreating from the subject of abortion, he decided to elaborate on his stance in an interview with ESPN. In the interview he says he tells…
READ FULL BLOG POSTWhat Dobbs Does & Doesn’t Mean
It's a decent first step, but its reasoning doesn’t allow for the next step
By James Hanink | July 6th 2022 3:32 PMOpinions abound about the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling. Here in California, highly publicized protests feature women carrying signs that read, “Abortion on Demand, without Apology.” Nothing new, only more frantic and furious. On my view, Dobbs is a decent first step. But its own reasoning doesn’t allow for the next…
READ FULL BLOG POSTThirteen and Counting
Many U.S. states have already banned or widely restricted abortion since Dobbs
By Barbara Rose | June 28th 2022 7:24 PMAs of today, thirteen U.S. states have banned or widely restricted abortion after the Supreme Court's ruling on Dobbs. Tennessee, the thirteenth, has a six-week "heartbeat" ban and next month may see a trigger-law ban go into effect that protects the unborn starting at conception. LifeNews.com's Steven Ertelt offers a…
READ FULL BLOG POSTCardinals, Cardinal Virtues, and Clarity
No one acts prudently who violates the commandment 'Thou shall not kill'
By James Hanink | June 1st 2022 3:05 PMThe press is repeating Bishop (and now Cardinal-elect) Robert McElroy’s charge that excluding Catholic politicians from Communion is wrongheaded. “It will bring tremendously destructive consequences” he writes, and politics is to blame. “The Eucharist is being weaponized and deployed as a tool in political warfare.” McElroy also points to the…
READ FULL BLOG POST'Exterminating Poverty'
Eugenicist Marie Stopes and her supporters openly stated their aims
By David Daintree | May 12th 2022 2:54 PMLast summer I reviewed an important book about the eugenics movement of 100 years ago, and the subject bears repeating. The book is Mark H. Sutherland's Exterminating Poverty: The true story of the eugenic plan to get rid of the poor, and the Scottish doctor who fought against it. A link…
READ FULL BLOG POSTA Whole Other Electorate
63 million Americans never got a chance to vote, or even to breathe
By Jason Morgan | April 28th 2022 12:06 PMElection integrity has been in the news a lot these past few years. A cloud long hung over the 2016 presidential election, for example. Did the Russians throw the contest in favor of Trump? Did James Comey and the FBI do the same by opening a probe into Hillary Clinton’s…
READ FULL BLOG POSTBeware of Mustachioed Napoleons
John Bolton serves the foreign-export Enlightenment wing of the American uniparty
By Jason Morgan | April 13th 2022 3:13 PMJohn Bolton has a reputation as a fierce conservative. Fifteen years ago or so, I used to think he was, too. I would watch Bolton, who was President George W. Bush’s Ambassador to the United Nations, appear on the television and lay into Washington liberals like a dog going at…
READ FULL BLOG POSTA Brief on Abortion
Science and the Church teach when human life begins
By Richard DellOrfano | April 9th 2022 3:25 PMThe first recorded evidence of induced abortion is from the Egyptian Ebers Papyrus dated to 1550 BC. The only evidence in ancient laws of a death penalty for abortion is found in Assyrian law: the Code of Assura, c. 1075 BC. The epic Ramayana, c. 750BC, has a description of…
READ FULL BLOG POSTWould You Sign the Bill?
A back-and-forth with an activist group
By James Hanink | March 21st 2022 9:44 PMIn my gubernatorial campaign to challenge Gavin Newsom, I get lots of inquiries. Here’s one from the advocacy group Intact Political Action (IPA).
“Hello. If you are elected Governor of California, would you sign a bill banning non-therapeutic circumcision of boys if it came to your desk? Would…
READ FULL BLOG POSTOn Campaign in Calif.
Maybe our state once reflected the American Dream. Now it exports a primal scream.
By James Hanink | March 8th 2022 4:09 PMJune 7, 2022: Save the date! Truth be told, I don’t save most dates. This one’s different. It’s the date of the California Primary Election, and I’m running for Governor. Again. I was a candidate in last year’s Special Recall Election that induced Gavin Newsom, our (still) sitting governor, to…
READ FULL BLOG POSTBomb Drills
Do kids today talk about missiles, like we did in the 50s?
By Richard DellOrfano | February 4th 2022 5:41 PMWhen I was a 6th-grader walking home with friends from elementary school in the 50s, we would talk about all the interesting things heard in the news, like the Boston Braves leaving Boston or the first man to conquer Mt. Everest. We wondered what it was like to be Castro,…
READ FULL BLOG POSTThe Longest War
The end of Roe v. Wade will entail a nationwide reconciliation effort
By Jason Morgan | January 24th 2022 3:50 PMAs coverage of the March for Life 2022 winds down, I reflect that the mood in the pro-life movement seems very different now than ever before. I never attended the March for Life in Washington. But one year I did attend the smaller March for Life in Chicago. I remember…
READ FULL BLOG POSTBig Money for Abortion
There is a dark side to Warren Buffett's money
By Barbara Rose | January 18th 2022 3:16 PMBillionaire investor Warren Buffett is admired by Americans for his ability to make money. But there's a dark side to all that cash. Hayden Ludwig's "The Big Money Behind Abortion Activism," in The American Conservative (Jan. 18), tells of Buffett's "charitable" foundation, which since 2000 has given $4.7 billion --…
READ FULL BLOG POST'Imprecise Targeting'
Civilian casualties from U.S. air-strikes are not rare occurrences
By Barbara Rose | December 20th 2021 10:03 PMReporters at The New York Times have made public hundreds of confidential reports by the Pentagon on civilian casualties from U.S. air-strikes in Iraq and Syria, covering September 2014 through January 2018. The journalists describe the air-strikes as "marked by deeply flawed intelligence, rushed and often imprecise targeting, and the…
READ FULL BLOG POSTBack to the States
If Roe falls, then trigger laws, pre-Roe bans, & heartbeat laws will stop abortions
By Barbara Rose | December 6th 2021 4:44 PMLast week the U.S. Supreme Court heard the Mississippi case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, which many hope will overturn the Roe v. Wade ruling of 1973. Such an outcome does not mean that abortion would automatically become illegal across the United States; rather, the power to make laws on abortion…
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