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Morning Briefing
For January 23, 2014
No Truce With Evil. Ever.
It’s been another year. Another 3 million
kids, more or less, killed legally in utero in this country. Time to
take stock of things.
On the one hand, a substantial amount of
progress has been made in the last 12 months. Numerous states have
passed laws and regulations curtailing the practice of abortion. In the
wake of the trial of Kermit Gosnell, numerous more have passed
regulations requiring abortion clinics to meet the same standards as
other outpatient surgery centers. In the wake of these regulations,
numerous such clinics have closed, proving their worthlessness as
purveyors of health.
On the other hand, the cause of life has in
some ways suffered some political setbacks in the last year. The most
pro-abortion President in history continued his attempt to trample
religious liberty and expand taxpayer funding of abortion in clear
violation of Federal Law. The always active and morally bankrupt fifth
column within the GOP continues to scream that opposition to mass
infanticide is a political loser and should be dropped from the party
platform. “It is time for a truce,” we are regularly told.
Meanwhile, the other side rejects the very
notion that a truce exists or even could be possible. Fabulist women in
pink shoes are lionized and feted for literally no reason other than
supporting third-trimester abortion on demand. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
Matt Bevin
Matt Bevin is running for the United States
Senate in Kentucky. The businessman and father of nine is committed to
the pro-life cause. Several of his children were adopted. In 2003, he
lost a daughter in a car wreck. The Southern Theological Seminary’s
Bevin Center for Missions Moblization is named for Matt Bevin’s
daughter.
Matt Bevin is a good man. Right now he is
being subjected to withering attacks by Republicans who have long
profited from the status quo. Bevin, like a number of other candidates
this year, is challenging an incumbent Republican Senator — one who has
been in Washington since 1985.
If Republicans want to change Washington,
D.C., we must change our own team. We must change the team that heralded
passing TARP as a great day for the United States Senate. We must
change the team that grew government itself while claiming to be in
favor of small government. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
More Common Core: Pay Attention, Democrats
Common Core is an ongoing disaster foisted
upon American schools and messing with our kids futures. As an Arkansas
mom pointed out recently, we’re forcing our kids to bypass real,
efficient problem-solving in favor of .. well, nonsense. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
A Day of Death.
Forty-two years ago today, America decided to
adopt a state religious belief: that some humans are not people. It is
necessarily a religious belief, because to that point, America had never
doubted that humans were persons, in the same way it had never doubted
that wheat is a grain; it is self-evident by both one’s senses and one’s
common sense, by basic science and by the application of reason. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
A Family’s Struggle With Apparent Mental Health Issues Turns to Life
I heard a story the other day about a family
seemingly ruined by the mental health issue of the oldest child in the
family. I thought it was worth sharing today, given events.
This family had five sons and at least two
daughters. The father died leaving the mother to care for the family.
The oldest son had always seemed a little abnormal and after years of
living at home and helping take care of the family, he moved out around
30 years old having never married. At that point, he seemed to really
deteriorate.
We hear stories sometimes of people who
develop mental health issues and claim to see things or they claim to be
someone like Napoleon or Jesus or whoever. And that’s what apparently
happened here. The oldest son left his family and started claiming wild
things. He claimed he was Jesus. He claimed he could heal people. He
claimed he could see demons and angels. This was beyond Hale Bopp level
nuttiness as far as his family was concerned. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
Conservatives Introduce Bill to Repeal Taxes on Social Security Benefits
At present, federal “mandatory” programs,
which include Medicare, Social Security and roughly 77 welfare program,
account for 57% of the entire federal budget. Social
Security is by far the largest federal expenditure, which is projected
to cost $848 billion in 2014 and at least $11 trillion over the next 10
years. It is
clear that we will never control spending and bend the trajectory of our
fiscal insolvency without offering comprehensive and effective reforms
to Social Security. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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