With the possible exception of Mohammed, no one is more deserving of utter contempt, ridicule, and abominable loathing by civilized man than Karl Marx, who is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions, and the suffering of many more. His followers butchered unimaginable millions of their own people following his precepts. May God have […]
Another City:An Open Letter to a “Gay-Rights” Advocate
Editors Note. This essay, written by Dr. David C. Ford, Professor of Church History at St. Tikhon’s Seminary, responds to a homosexual activist who argues that the Orthodox moral tradition should be retooled to sanction homosexual behavior. The arguments, while unfamiliar to some Orthodox readers, are not new. They were first used against the Episcopal […]
Family: Doctors Removed Daughter’s Organs Against Our Wishes, She Was Still Alive
Remember the Hippocratic Oath? Evidently, neither do physicians. by Wesley J. Smith I am not prejudging this case, but I bring it up here because I think it illustrates the loss of trust that a “presumed consent” organ donation scheme would engender in people. (Current law requires us to “opt-in” to be an organ donor–as […]
Fetal Farming is Here
I warned 30 years ago that this was the goal, and that it would happen. Every smart aleck science student or bioethicist I warned who guffawed at the idea is silent today. Fears raised over HUMAN cloning: Lab in controversial embryo experiments The research institute combined two types of stem cells to create a viable […]
Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian
by George Reisman, Mises Institute My purpose today is to make just two main points: (1) To show why Nazi Germany was a socialist state, not a capitalist one. And (2) to show why socialism, understood as an economic system based on government ownership of the means of production, positively requires a totalitarian dictatorship. The […]
Proof: Premarital Sexual Permissiveness is a Major Cause of Divorce
The more permissive a person is regarding premarital sex, the more likely that he/she will cheat on their spouse. Attitudinal research strongly supports premarital sexual permissiveness as the most significant correlate of Extramarital sexual permissiveness (EMSP). Evidence in support of other predictors is tenuous. From the paper: Premarital Sex and the Destruction of the Nuclear Family […]
1934 Anthropologist: “Sexually Permissive Societies Always Fall”
It’s not new news – Sumerian, Greek, Roman, Babylonian, Moorish, Anglo-Saxon, and many other societies, all fell shortly after they abandoned sexual chastity. Sexual permissiveness would cause societies to decline unless and until their sexual mores became more rigid. Published in a highly underrated 1934 book called “Sex and Culture,” the anthropologist J.D. Unwin found […]
California Progressives Launch Another Attack on Free Speech
by David French There is no compromise with people who seek and require your silence. On Sunday evening, New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait published a piece asking why more disgruntled Republicans don’t punish their party by switching sides. Chait notes that the “strongest defense against the election of an extreme or unfit leader is for […]
Socialized Medicine Revealed: Canadian Disabled Man Denied Care but Offered Euthanasia
by Wesley J. Smith Will euthanasia be about money? Does CNN hate Donald Trump? In 2008, two Oregon terminally ill patients on rationed Medicaid were denied coverage for life-extending chemotherapy, but received letters from administrators offering to pay for their assisted suicides. Now, a Canadian man with serious disabilities has been refused coverage for independent living services […]
5 Reasons Socialism Is Not Christian
by Julie Roys Please don’t read this if you prefer to remain in a state of delusion about your Christian faith, or about socialism itself. Jesus confronted the money-changers and challenged believers to give to the needy. But, would he support socialism? Increasingly, Americans think he would. In fact, a recent Barna poll found that […]