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Mark Levin To Rising Generation . . . Will You Choose Freedom?

August 13, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Mark Levin To Rising Generation . . . Will You Choose Freedom?

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY Will the children and grandchildren in America today have the same chance to live in prosperity and freedom as previous generations of Americans? “Can we simultaneously love our children but betray their generation and generations yet born?” Mark Levin asks in the first sentence of his new book, Plunder and Deceit. Levin then presents a tragic irony. “Among the least acknowledged facts of American modernity,” he writes, “is the extent to which parents, acting in their familial capacity, naturally and tenaciously guard their young children from threat and peril, to the point of risking their own physical and economic security in extreme cases; however, as part of the political and governing community — that is, the…Continue Reading

Who Helped Trump Rise? Surprise, It Includes Bishops

August 12, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Who Helped Trump Rise? Surprise, It Includes Bishops

By DEXTER DUGGAN Although he’s no longer president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, New York’s Timothy Cardinal Dolan might show more discretion while presiding for the Church in one of the world’s media capitals. The cardinal has misstepped on topics including homosexuality — “Bravo” for Michael Sam — and parading for St. Patrick. Repeatedly, he also has alleged inexcusable bigotry against those who disagree with him on “immigration.” Dolan’s is an embarrassing approach best forgotten. However, in an opinion article under his byline in the New York Daily News posted July 29, Dolan returns to this task. He first writes of past manifestations of nativists, Know-Nothings, the Ku Klux Klan, and other racists. He commends himself for having…Continue Reading

The Slaughter Of Babies

August 11, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on The Slaughter Of Babies

By ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO The recent broadcast of videotapes taken of persons employed at Planned Parenthood — the prolific and notorious abortion provider — has brought the issue of abortion to the national consciousness again and front and center to the Republican presidential primary campaign. The tapes were made secretly by a pro-life group determined to show to the world the dark side of Planned Parenthood’s use of federal funds. What the world saw was terrifying and damning. The tapes are difficult to watch, just as any discussion of human slaughter is difficult to watch. If you have seen these tapes, you witnessed physicians and others talking about the profits Planned Parenthood is making in the sale of baby body…Continue Reading

Building On The Past . . . A Look Back At The 1980 Synod On Marriage And The Family

August 10, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Building On The Past . . . A Look Back At The 1980 Synod On Marriage And The Family

By LOUISE KIRK (Editor’s Note: Louise Kirk is an author and journalist in England, with specialties in Church teaching on the family and natural family planning. She will be covering the upcoming October Synod on the Family for The Wanderer.) + + + Scanning through The Wanderer’s reports on 1980 Extraordinary Synod on the family and marriage, familiar terms pop out at me: the need to respect individual conscience, calls for a more positive response to the “Spirit of the Age,” the principle of gradualism, and in particular the desire of divorced and remarried couples to receive the Eucharist. I am surprised. This is not the Extraordinary Synod of last year we are talking about, but the Fifth General Synod…Continue Reading

As Groups Fight To Suppress Videos . . . Abortion Shocker Shows “Good Germans” Now “Good Democrats”

August 9, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on As Groups Fight To Suppress Videos . . . Abortion Shocker Shows “Good Germans” Now “Good Democrats”

By DEXTER DUGGAN Amid the continuing release of gruesome Planned Parenthood abortion videos by the pro-life Center for Medical Progress, one photo had a power all its own. It showed stricken-looking men seated in a theater, some wide-eyed or shame-faced, some holding their hands to their heads, one apparently wiping away tears. This photo at the Patheos website accompanied an article by Fr. Dwight Longenecker on the fifth CMP video, released August 4, which included what looked like a casserole dish from the freezer at a Houston mega-center abortuary, full of freshly killed baby parts including an arm torn away near the shoulder. Here’s a twin from the freezer, 20 weeks old. Longenecker wrote: “The Planned Parenthood workers are seen…Continue Reading

Planned Parenthood . . . A Matter Of “Line Items”

August 8, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Planned Parenthood . . . A Matter Of “Line Items”

By REY FLORES Now that a fifth video has been released by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), again showing the cold callousness of Planned Parenthood doctors and staffers joking about their “product” as they pull body part after body part out of a glass pan, I wonder if this will be enough. Apparently it is going to take the hand of God Himself to defund Planned Parenthood because otherwise it may never happen. Congress probably won’t get it done and President Obama will certainly never let that happen as long as he’s in the White House. At one point in this new video there’s a reference to one of the dismembered babies being a twin when we hear someone…Continue Reading

Transit Expert Says . . . Urban Planners Prefer Their Own Visions Over Working Class, Residents

August 7, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Transit Expert Says . . . Urban Planners Prefer Their Own Visions Over Working Class, Residents

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Central Avenue in midtown here used to be prettier. Graceful, towering palm trees in the median divider of the major six-lane north-south surface street were a treat to see amid high-rise office buildings. A livable city could be attractive, with workers and families going about their daily lives. Then came urban planners who preferred starting to squeeze people into higher-density housing and fixed-rail transit, the opposite of the western metropolitan suburban tone here. The median-divider palms were yanked out as an infant light-rail system was built, and generally smooth-running Central Avenue was narrowed by one lane in each direction so the rail cars could glide along between the rubber-tired street traffic. The Metro rail cars,…Continue Reading

Can It Get Much Worse?

August 6, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Can It Get Much Worse?

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK I realize now that it is a mistake to react as I often do when another domino falls against traditional values in the culture wars, whether it is the legalization of abortion and marijuana or the mainstreaming of pornography on the Internet and cable television. What I say to myself, after the initial jolt of anger and disappointment, is: “Well, we’ve hit bottom. At least it can’t get any worse now.” The problem is that the secular left doesn’t think that way. There is always another trace of Christian values that they can find to attack. I am convinced now that the left won’t be content until traditional Christianity is seen by the population as a…Continue Reading

The Problem With Sentimentality

August 5, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on The Problem With Sentimentality

By DONALD DeMARCO There are two incurable problems with life. One is that the world and its human inhabitants are imperfect, and the other is that we are mortal. Anxiety and death are persistently with us. We can either spend our lives, therefore, in a state of dissatisfaction dreaming of a world that cannot be, or we can realize that the problems that we face can strengthen us as persons, and that this world, despite all of its attractions, is not our permanent dwelling place. The poet E.E. Cummings, in his poem about what he calls “manunkind,” invites his readers to leave for that “good universe next door.” This, we might say, is dreaming, and has no practical utility. Why…Continue Reading

From Lee To Landrieu . . . The Changing Face Of The South

August 4, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on From Lee To Landrieu . . . The Changing Face Of The South

By PETER MAURICE (Editor’s Note: Peter Maurice has written for Gilbert magazine.) + + + “No one should ever drive by the statehouse and feel pain.” Given the reaction to Gov. Nikki Haley’s remark, it may appear in a future edition of Bartlett’s. Her lament and the consequent removal of the Confederate flag have garnered praise from quarters high and low. Bloggers and twitterers have lauded Haley for purging the Palmetto State of “the American swastika.” Nia-Malika Henderson of CNN Politics calls the governor “the face of the new South,” the face that “stared down hate and history.” Packer Gage, Romney’s former deputy campaign manager, espies in the rising star “a strong vice-presidential candidate…maybe she should run for president.” Most…Continue Reading