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Life of the mother: The red herring of the pro death movement
You may have heard the sobering news that the country of Ireland is considering embracing abortion under the guise of the “life of the mother.” In the United States we have a close cousin to this argument and it’s usually uttered by politicians who state that they’re against abortion, “except in the cases of rape, [...]
Stonewall: Albemarle authorities mum on Planned Parenthood disturbance
(Note: The following information has been obtained from reliable sources, but local authorities would not confirm details.) A non-English speaking family, apparently distraught over their adult daughter’s decision to have an abortion, locked themselves in the waiting room of Planned Parenthood’s Albemarle abortuary on Thursday. According to reliable sources: At approximately 8:27 AM, Charlottesville’s Emergency [...]
Is heartbeat legislation constitutional?
by Steven Lopez Many of you may have read that the North Dakota legislature passed new regulations that would protect unborn babies the minute a heartbeat is detected. This is important because almost every surgical abortion (1.2 million annually) is performed on a baby with a beating heart and developing brain. That’s 3,287 innocent victims [...]
The left’s frontal attack on the sanctity of marriage
For some time now, there has been a culture war in progress regarding the definition of marriage—or rather the redefinition of marriage. In the pursuit of the holy grail of diversity, we mere mortals seek to nullify the natural order of those things divinely created, by employing the limited authority of other mere mortals (politicians), [...]
Cynthia, Chris and a requiem for righteousness
I recall previous elections and can remember an interview with Dick Morris, who was the White House Secretary with the Clintons for a number of years. When asked by a commentator upon Hillary Clinton’s win in the state of New York, if he could define her in one word. Without hesitation, he answered amoral. What [...]
President Barack Obama and the tyranny of abortion
by Steve Lopez As Election Day nears it’s important to remember all of the voices that have been silenced by the tyranny of abortion. All of us have felt the negative impact of a teetering economy and a national debt that has risen more under President Obama than any President in United States history, and [...]
Playboy and the University of Virginia: Honor, wherefore art thou
by Hank Martin Thomas Jefferson would be proud. Jefferson’s brainchild, the University of Virginia, is the nation’s top party school, according to Playboy Magazine. UVA ranked above all the others in Playboy’s three quality indices: sex life, nightlife, and sporting life. The magazine took “America’s top 100 colleges” and ranked them across 900 data points [...]
World of (Agnor) Hurt: President Obama, same-sex marriage promoted by Albemarle County Elementary School?
In today’s highly charged political environment, government schools theoretically should be bastions of political non-partisanship. In Albemarle County, as in most Virginia school divisions, there are policies in place to prevent political indoctrination of students. Yet once again, Albemarle County’s enacted guidelines have failed to assuage concerned parents and protect vulnerable children from blatant political [...]
The Tattered Public Sphere: A Review of Charles Murray’s “Coming Apart”
The Tattered Public Sphere: A Review of Charles Murray’s “Coming Apart” By Scott Beyer There were many advantages to having a sheltered, upper-middle class background in Charlottesville. But one thing it didn’t teach me was what the adult world is really like in America across class lines. Even following college, I still believed most of [...]
Guest editorial: The perpetual scream for increasing the unskilled wages for reasons of social justice
Guest editorial: The perpetual scream for increasing the unskilled wages for reasons of social justice by Claire Overton As a friend of Dr. Nelson Lichtenstein ( former UVA Professor, Now at UCLA, union apologist, author of Jimmy Hoffa, The Most Dangerous Man In Detroit et al. and the first “ Living Wage Activist “ in [...]
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