Requiring Information That Children Feel Suffering
This week, U.S. Senator Mike Johanns introduced S. 14, the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act, legislation that would require physicians to tell women having an abortion past 20 weeks of pregnancy that...
View ArticleThe Lone Wolf Campaign Predators of 2010
The election season of 2010 has seen an explosion of independent expenditures for and against congressional candidates, and the donors to the groups that mount these independent expenditures are...
View Article#25 Way to Exasperate a Liberal: Establish a New Standard in Pastoral Care
Sister Margaret McBride, a member of the ethics board of the Catholic St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, gave her approval for an abortion of an 11-week old fetus with no cerebral cortex when...
View ArticleCorapi and Cohen Religious Predictions of Doom lie Barren (excluding...
It’s often said in authoritarian religious circles that “God is NOT mocked!”, “God CANNOT be mocked!,” or “God WILL NOT be mocked!”. As an empirical matter, the God character and His supposed standards...
View ArticleThe Madonna and John Corapi Prophecies: Still No Death or Mayhem from On High
Five years ago, in 2008, Catholic priest and media personality Father John Corapi predicted divine punishment for abortion and godlessness, railing in dire tones: "If we do not soon stop the genocide...
View ArticleThe Incidence of Trent Franks Thinking is Very Low
It is possible, even from the great distance of Maine, to hear the DC press corps exhale with a collective “OMiGod” at the remarkably ignorant declaration of Republican Congressman Trent Franks, who...
View ArticleDoes Science Prove the Catholic Church is Right? Part IV: Homosexuality and...
Jim Schroeder, writing for the pro-Catholic Foundation for Evangelization through the Media, has baldly declared that “Science Is Proving the Church Is Right and the Culture’s Wrong:” “Modern science –...
View ArticleWhere Congressional Legislation Lies, January 2015
Number of bills before the 114th Congress to let military chaplains proselytize troops: 1 Number of bills mentioning “military waste“: 0 Number of bills to give zygotes legal rights at conception: 1...
View ArticleIs Transparency a Trap? Is Information a Weapon?
Today, I read the text of H.R. 489 for the first time. Its major action clause reads: SEC. 2. REQUIRED REPORTING OF MEDICAID PAYMENTS TO ABORTION PROVIDERS. (a) In General.–Not later than 60 days after...
View ArticleSenator Rick Santorum, Not Exactly Leaving Science to the Scientists
Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum, 2015, on how religious people worried about global warming should shut up and “leave science to the scientists”: “The church has gotten it wrong a few times on...
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