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Albert Mohler: Hugh Hefner and a New Sort of Enslavement
October 03, 2017 18:33 - 1 minute - 503 KBIf there were to be a single, most powerful symbol of the sexual revolution in the 20th century, that symbol as an individual would’ve been Hugh Hefner—the founder of Playboy magazine who died recently at age 91. The 20th century was the great century of sexual revolution. One of the driving engines of that change was the modern industry of pornography—and you cannot separate that industry from the one man who made it most mainstream and most profitable. The Playboy founder sought to redefi...
Albert Mohler: An Act Of Pure Evil
October 02, 2017 18:00 - 1 minute - 495 KBThe news from Las Vegas is heartbreaking. A lone killer staked out a position 32 floors above ground and then aimed powerful weapons at a massive crowd gathered for a music festival and then killed himself as police stormed his hotel room. More than 50 people are dead and hundreds are wounded. Already, this horrific scene is described as the worst mass shooting in American history. Authorities warn that the death toll will rise. President Donald Trump was absolutely right when he called the...
Michael Medved: “Zero Sum Game” Distorts Thinking on Tax Cuts, Foreign Affairs
September 29, 2017 16:58 - 1 minute - 582 KBAs Congress debates immediate, substantial cuts in federal tax rates, liberal opponents invoke the discredited concept of a “zero sum game”—the idea that if one citizen gains, then another must lose, because they believe that one individual’s good fortune must always mean someone else’s misfortune. This thinking ignores the way economic growth can benefit everyone; creation of wealth means more opportunities, not fewer, for everyone in the vicinity of the wealth creator. Unfortunately, so...
Trump Turns Focus to Tax Reform
September 28, 2017 22:25 - 40 minutes - 18.5 MBTownhall Review -- September 30, 2017 Sitting in for Hugh Hewitt, Joe Concha speaks with Jason Whitlock of Fox Sports on the NFL National Anthem controversy. Mike Huckabee shares with Michael Medved details of his show “Huckabee” on TBN. Robert Costa of the Washington Post joins Hugh Hewitt to share the latest on the devastation that took place in Puerto Rico. Larry Elder has Larry Klayman, founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, on the show to explain the latest evidence of wiretapping ...
Albert Mohler: The Intrusion of Politics Into Virtually Everything
September 28, 2017 16:55 - 1 minute - 495 KBFor the better part of the last century or more there has been something of an unspoken compact between the sphere of politics and the sphere of sports; they have basically stayed out of one another’s way. This compact—already deteriorating—has been shattered as President Donald Trump went head to head with players in the NBA and NFL about questions of patriotism. Regrettably, we should expect this story to expand over time because this does represent, I would argue, a major turning point ...
Michael Medved: Real Life Losses, Abstract Gains
September 27, 2017 20:33 - 1 minute - 524 KBTo understand why right-wing activists make a mistake in pushing deportation of so-called “Dreamers” we should consider the reasons for our consistent victories in defending gun rights. For gun-owners, this is a personal issue—restrictive regulations are an interference, or an annoyance, with real-world impact. For those who choose not to own firearms, gun control is an abstraction—with no effect on the way you live. Similarly, for 800,000 undocumented immigrants brought here as children ...
Mike Gallagher: You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught
September 26, 2017 21:00 - 58 seconds - 479 KBJust a couple weekends ago in Belleville, Illinois, every single player on a football team of youngsters—eight years old and under—took a knee during the national anthem. The coach, Orlando Goodin, said his kids knew all about why people were protesting in the streets of St. Louis over the acquittal of former police officer Jason Stockley. He saw a teaching opportunity—and explained Colin Kaepernick’s decision to kneel during the national anthem. The kids asked if they could do the same. ...
Albert Mohler: Childlessness And The Future Of Europe
September 25, 2017 18:00 - 1 minute - 519 KBThe rise of childlessness is reaching increasingly alarming levels in Europe. The Economist recently noted that “just 9 percent of English and Welsh women born in 1946 had no children. But, for the cohort born in 1970, the proportion is 17 percent. But now in Germany, 22 percent of women reach their early 40s without children; in the German city of Hamburg 32 percent do.” The fact is, no society can survive without an adequate number of children being born, and that there is a very real pro...
Lanhee Chen: The Bernie Plan: Too Good to Be True
September 22, 2017 18:21 - 1 minute - 525 KBSenator Bernie Sanders has recently introduced “Medicare for all” legislation, which would enroll all Americans into the nation’s Medicare program within four years. Senator Sanders argues that his proposal would create a system that “works not just for millionaires and billionaires, but for all of us.” As Democrats and other policy makers debate the merits of Senator Sanders’s proposal, here are a few important observations about international systems that they ought to consider. First, a ...
Trump Talks Tough at United Nations
September 22, 2017 00:27 - 40 minutes - 18.6 MBTownhall Review – September 21, 2017 President Trump gives a speech of a lifetime at the UN General Council. Mike Gallagher invites North Korea expert Gordon Chang on his show to weigh in on Trump’s comments about the dangerous North Korean regime. Dennis Prager also looks at a few of the great moments of President Trump’s speech. Mark Davis invites Michael Anton, senior national security official in the Trump administration, to discuss how diplomatic and economic pressures are being applied ...
Albert Mohler: Death And Down Syndrome In Iceland
September 21, 2017 19:34 - 1 minute - 535 KBCBS News recently reported that the country of Iceland has almost completely eradicated Down syndrome. What they really mean is that Iceland has almost completely eradicated people with Down syndrome. The story explains, “Since prenatal screening tests were introduced in Iceland in the early 2000s, the vast majority of women—close to 100 percent—who received a positive test for Down syndrome terminated their pregnancy.” There are many in Iceland, including some medical ethicists, who are t...
Lanhee Chen: One More Opportunity For Health Care Reform
September 20, 2017 21:24 - 1 minute - 541 KBAfter several unsuccessful attempts this year, Republicans have one last chance to deliver on their seven-year old promise to repeal and replace ObamaCare. Legislation recently introduced by Senators Lindsey Graham, Bill Cassidy, Dean Heller and Ron Johnson eliminates some of ObamaCare’s most unpopular provisions and enacts reforms that will help to lower costs, expand choices, promote federal fiscal responsibility, and put power back in the hands of states and consumers. The Graham-Cassid...
Owen Strachan: The Double Standard And ESPN
September 19, 2017 18:05 - 1 minute - 504 KBESPN is back in the news—not for its perpetually declining ratings, but because of comments by two female anchors. Jemele Hill caused a stir when she called President Trump a “white supremacist” and identified his close associates in the same terms. Linda Cohn, a longtime anchor, observed—accurately—that some viewers may be tuning ESPN out because of its left-leaning coverage. ESPN reacted differently to the two journalists, issuing a statement about Hill, while suspending Cohn. There’s ...
Albert Mohler: The (Sometimes Toxic) Power of Ideas
September 18, 2017 18:08 - 1 minute - 558 KBThe New York Times recently noted the death of a prominent feminist, Kate Millett, who died at 82. The obituary rightly points out that Millett’s book “Sexual Politics” became known as the Bible of Feminism in the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s. In her book, published in 1969, included her words, “Patriarchy’s chief institution is the family. It is both a mirror of and a connection with the larger society; a patriarchal unit within a patriarchal whole.” What she called for was an overthrow of patriar...
Owen Strachan: The Fight for Free Speech Comes to Berkeley
September 15, 2017 21:30 - 1 minute - 527 KBGodzilla has landed. Ben Shapiro spoke Thursday night at the University of California-Berkeley. Prior to the young conservative’s talk on free speech, local press noted that the university had added major concrete fortifications to handle protestors. In addition, 76 campus faculty members signed a letter urging students to sit out Berkeley’s “Free Speech Week” and stay home. Responding to press coverage, Shapiro compared the reaction to his talk as one befitting Godzilla. In truth, Godzill...
Trump Makes a Deal With Dems
September 14, 2017 19:59 - 40 minutes - 18.6 MBThe Townhall Review – September 16, 2017 Michael Medved takes a close look at the 60 Minutes interview between Steve Bannon, the former White House Chief Strategist and executive chairman of Breitbart News, and Charlie Rose of CBS. Mike Gallagher invited former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich on his show to explain the prospect of Trump betraying his own to help fund the recovery efforts, post Hurricane Harvey and Irma. Mark Lilla of Columbia University and author of, “The Once and Future ...
Michael Medved: No Rational Explanation for “It”
September 14, 2017 15:24 - 1 minute - 510 KBAfter a miserable summer for movies, with box-office down some 15 percent across the board, September brought a big surprise: a modestly budgeted fright-fest with no big names smashed all records for horror films or for September releases in general. “It,” based on a 1986 Stephen King novel and a ’90s TV miniseries, centers on an ageless cannibal clown who arises from the sewers of a Maine town every 27 years to murder and mutilate local children. A group of outcaste 13-year-olds does battl...
Albert Mohler: An Opportunity for Congress After DACA
September 13, 2017 18:04 - 1 minute - 554 KBSince the Trump Administration announced the end of President Obama’s DACA policy, the nation now turns to Congress to determine what should be done about the “dreamers,” those 800,000 young people brought illegally to the U.S. as children who are now hoping for a future in America. It is vital that we make an important distinction made often in our American courts: namely, the distinction between what is constitutional and what is right. Justice Antonin Scalia is famous for saying that a...
David Davenport: Free Speech Under Threat
September 12, 2017 18:46 - 1 minute - 493 KBThis summer, Commentary magazine published a forum on the question: Is free speech under threat in the United States? Ironically, in a country where the Constitution and the courts carefully protect free speech, many people do not feel free to speak freely. Why? Because of a smothering blanket of political correctness that starts in our colleges and permeates our society. Speakers with points of view that differ from the liberal orthodoxy are not welcome on many campuses, and in some cas...
Michael Medved: Evangelicals for Trump: A Matter of Self Defense
September 11, 2017 17:25 - 1 minute - 574 KBThe sharpest divisions in politics today aren’t based on race or economic status, but on religion. Last year’s exit polls showed 26 percent who described themselves as Evangelical Christians, and they preferred Donald Trump by a crushing margin of 81 to 16 percent. Among the rest of the electorate—the 74 percent who said they were NOT evangelical or born-again—Hillary won a landslide, 60 to 34 percent. Why the difference, when few fervent Christians viewed Trump as a paragon of virtue, or...
Michael Medved: Big Events Demand Big—and Cooperative—Responses
September 08, 2017 16:19 - 1 minute - 565 KBAt key turning points in history, dramatic events seem to come together to force cooperation between even the most reluctant partisans. In the face of devastation from Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma, for instance, even a brief governmental shutdown would have been unthinkable, so Republicans and Democrats came together to provide disaster relief, to pass a budget, and to raise the debt ceiling. Meanwhile, the H-bomb explosion by North Korea means that all sides should rally behind the P...
Hugh Hewitt: Time To Secure The Border
September 07, 2017 21:51 - 1 minute - 493 KBPresident Trump has ended DACA and given Congress six months to take action on the issue of illegal immigration. As Congress works to write and pass a bill, they must recognize the moral necessity of building a border wall—a border barrier—a border fence. In July alone, there were 18,000 arrests at the border. Imagine how many were not arrested—made it past. I’m not certain how many people were swept away by Hurricane Harvey while trying to come into this country illegally, but it had to ...
Are the Dreamers’ Dreams on the Line?
September 07, 2017 18:16 - 39 minutes - 18.2 MBThe Townhall Review – September 9, 2017 US Attorney General Jeff Sessions announces the end of the DACA. Senator Tom Cotton speaks with Hugh Hewitt about the unconstitutionality of DACA and what President Trump is doing to clean up the mess former President Obama left behind. Dennis Prager looks at the sinister nature of the leadership in North Korea. Hugh Hewitt asks Al Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Seminary, why the need to sign the Nashville Statement. Michael Medved asks Steve...
Hugh Hewitt: An Opportunity After DACA
September 06, 2017 17:29 - 1 minute - 516 KBPresident Trump recently announced that he intends to end President Obama’s executive action called DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which prevents the deportation of persons brought illegally to the United States as children. The Trump Administration will renew DACA permits for the next six months in order to give Congress time to act to protect the “Dreamers.” Now, let’s make one thing abundantly clear: DACA is unconstitutional. The president said in 2010 and 2011, Presiden...
David Davenport: A Silver Lining In the Cloud of Controversy
September 05, 2017 18:40 - 1 minute - 493 KBPresident Trump’s approval numbers are low and controversies are high, nevertheless some good things are happening in our democratic system. Congress, for example, is stepping up to its responsibilities to debate and decide policy. With Trump less interested in policy particulars, Congress can become what the founders intended, the first of the branches of government. They are debating health care, tax reform and war powers instead of waiting for the president. Federalism is also flourishin...
David Davenport: California’s Bully Federalism
September 01, 2017 22:05 - 1 minute - 493 KBCalifornia’s travel ban, forbidding the expenditure of state money to travel to states that have policies they don’t like, is what I call “bully federalism.” You may remember federalism, the idea that state and local governments retain considerable power in our federal system. Under the 10th Amendment, states can fight back and defend their powers against Washington. But California’s federalism is not defending against federal power, it is offensive in nature, seeking to force its policies ...
Michael Medved: Unexpected Praise for Trump’s Turnaround
September 01, 2017 21:46 - 1 minute - 506 KBOne of history’s worst natural disasters produced one of the best weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency so far. The chief executive and his administration rose to the challenge of responding to Hurricane Harvey and even his implacable media critics praised his change in attitude. The normally hostile New York Times, for instance, featured two positive headlines: “Trump, in Texas, Says His Goal is the Best Relief Effort Ever” and “Hurricane Gives Trump a Chance to Reclaim the Power to Unify.” ...
Hurricane Harvey: The Power of Nature and Best of Human Nature
September 01, 2017 00:59 - 39 minutes - 18.2 MBTownhall Review — September 02, 2017 Franklin Graham, of Samaritan’s Purse, describes the relief effort going on in Houston. Texas Governor Greg Abbott shares how the federal, state, and local governments are coordinating to help those in need. Mike Gallagher spoke with former Texas Governor now Energy Secretary Perry on how faith communities are pulling together to assist with flood victims. Emergency room physician Dr. Beau Briese spoke with Dennis Prager about his firsthand experience in t...
Michael Medved: Four Hopeful Lessons From an Epic Catastrophe
August 31, 2017 18:29 - 1 minute - 505 KBAs Texas begins the long process of recovery from the catastrophe of Hurricane Harvey, Americans across the country should embrace four important lessons: • First, let’s acknowledge that government isn’t always the enemy—and in emergencies like this one, government at the local, state and federal levels has a crucial, life-saving role to play. • Second, we see that government alone isn’t enough—private businesses, and countless individual volunteers proved indispensable for rescue and reco...
Albert Mohler: A One in 1-Million-Year Flood?
August 30, 2017 17:51 - 1 minute - 532 KBAnd still the rains come, falling catastrophically upon Houston, Texas, the larger Metropolitan areas and the entire region of the Texas Gulf Coast. As of Sunday (yes, Sunday), 9 trillion gallons of water had already fallen from the storm, enough to fill the Great Salt Lake twice according to Matthew Cappucci of the Washington Post. Now, over 20 trillion gallons are expected. In order to equal the amount of water already rained on Houston, the Mississippi River in its entirety would have t...
Hugh Hewitt: President Trump and Hurricane Harvey
August 29, 2017 16:11 - 1 minute - 493 KBIt’s no secret that how a president responds to a natural disaster can affect his fortunes. President Barack Obama’s reaction to Hurricane Sandy contributed significantly to his 2012 reelection. President George W. Bush’s fumbled response to Hurricane Katrina was part of a ruinous sequence of events in 2005 that destroyed his second term’s political momentum. So, here’s some specific advice for President Trump. First, watch all of the coverage closely. Speak with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) ...
Davenport: Win or Lose, The ACA Has Federalized Health Care
August 28, 2017 19:19 - 1 minute - 512 KBNo matter how the efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare turn out, I’m sorry to say that President Obama’s Affordable Care Act has federalized health care forever. It has changed the conversation so that, instead of debating whether the federal government should or constitutionally may take over health care, we are instead debating how. As political scientist James Q. Wilson pointed out, once Congress has entered a field of regulation, the legitimacy of federal action is established and ...
Lanhee Chen: A Plea for Nuance in Polarized Times
August 25, 2017 23:10 - 1 minute - 534 KBThe views held by the protestors in the recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia—the voices of white supremacy, neo-Nazi organizations and the KKK—have no place in our society. But make no mistake: There are other—credible—voices on the political right in America today that have been marginalized on college campuses and other venues across our country. I’m thinking of voices and organizations that advocate for the life of the unborn child or for religious liberty, which have been shouted d...
Media and Trump Battle Over Racism
August 24, 2017 19:01 - 39 minutes - 18.2 MBThe Townhall Review -- August 26, 2017 President Trump, in a speech before America, explains his new way to look at Afghanistan. Senator Tom Cotton gives Hugh Hewitt his take and understanding of what is at state. Joining Mike Gallagher, Steven Bucci, a retired Army Special Forces officer and top Pentagon official, offers his insight into the Trump Afghanistan speech. Larry Elder invites award-winning author and seasoned journalist Liz Crokin, to explain her experience with Donald Trump on t...
Michael Medved: The Real Reason the South Left the Union
August 24, 2017 18:11 - 1 minute - 549 KBTragic recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia raise new questions about an old debate. Why did Southern states leave the Union in the first place, resulting in a war that killed more than 700,000 Americans? Mississippi, the 2nd of 11 states that ultimately seceded from the federal government, gave a clear explanation in its 1861 declaration of secession: “Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery—the greatest material interest in the world,” the delegates aff...
Jerry Bowyer: Time For Idle Hands to Get to Work
August 23, 2017 18:39 - 1 minute - 528 KBVirtually all Americans agree that the KKK is a vile, racist group has no place in contemporary public debate. What constructive action can we take? If you really hate the KKK, then cut taxes. Data show that poor economic performance enflames racial tension. According to Gallup polling, after the Bush tax cuts racial anxiety went down. But since 2010 anxiety has been rising—rapidly. One reason for that is that the U.S. has been growing at half its historic rate. When JFK proposed tax cuts ...
Hugh Hewitt: The White House West Wing (Staff) Renovation
August 22, 2017 16:52 - 1 minute - 548 KBThe exit of Stephen K. Bannon completes a restructuring of the West Wing that began almost as soon as the president took office and is now apparently complete. Like the physical renovation of the West Wing, it was noisy, not very attractive … but it was necessary. What is needed now are successes in cooperation with Congress—beyond confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, the Veterans Affairs reform bill, and the 14 Congressional Review Act laws that were all enormously signifi...
Dennis Prager: A Win for Political Tolerance
August 21, 2017 18:33 - 1 minute - 567 KBOn Wednesday night last week I had the privilege of serving as guest conductor of Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. It was particularly sweet because of the efforts by many who worked against me. Members of the orchestra and Santa Monica political leaders tried to persuade orchestra members to refuse to play and persuade people to refuse to attend the concert. Two symphony members who are also UCLA professors put out a public letter labeling my ...
Hugh Hewitt: Charlottesville Violence and the Legal Consequences
August 18, 2017 17:06 - 1 minute - 591 KBAll law students taking a First Amendment course, or even a constitutional law survey course, learn the rule of Brandenburg v. Ohio, a case that grew out of a 1964 KKK rally near Cincinnati. Brandenburg provides “that the constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of using force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such a...
Charlottesville Puts the Spotlight on Neo-Nazi Hate
August 18, 2017 00:29 - 39 minutes - 18.2 MBTownhall Review--August 19, 2017. Hugh Hewitt invites Politico’s Jake Sherman to review President Trump’s comments following the Charlottesville, Virginia demonstration. While on the Mike Gallagher show, Ben Shapiro of the Daily Wire scolded president Trump’s remarks. Gallagher also interviews Rich Lowry, of the National Review, on his article criticizing the placement of some Civil War memorials. Hugh Hewitt interviews Wisconsin Congressman who sits on both Armed Services and Homeland Secur...
Michael Medved: The Overhyped “Dangerous Divisions”
August 17, 2017 18:42 - 1 minute - 532 KBFollowing the horrible events in Charlottesville, Virginia, the public seems deeply alarmed at the deep and dangerous divisions in the country. But what are the substantive issues that actually divide the country? When it comes to hate festivals staged by neo-Nazis and the KKK, there is virtually no disagreement: nearly every American, left or right, and certainly including President Trump, strongly condemns the racial extremism of such fringe groups. But all sides also agree they have a ...
Hugh Hewitt: A Hard Lesson: Presidents Don’t Get Mulligans
August 16, 2017 18:49 - 1 minute - 637 KBOn Monday, the president gave a formal response to the alt-right, neo-Nazi violence in Charlottesville in which he denounced the KKK, racism and neo-Nazi groups in no uncertain terms. He ought to be commended for his clear statement on Monday. But—there’s no doubt about it—he ought to have made that statement on Saturday and he ought not to have given that press conference on Tuesday. It’s a hard lesson but a lesson that’s worth stating: presidents don’t get mulligans. When the challenger ...
Albert Mohler: Why Is It Fine to Criticize Christianity but Not Islam?
August 15, 2017 18:31 - 1 minute - 639 KBA public radio station in Berkeley, California, KPFA, recently disinvited world-renowned scientist Richard Dawkins due to his alleged “abusive speech” about Islam. Over the years, Richard Dawkins has basically insulted the intelligence of anyone and everyone who believes in God. He has made extremely caustic comments about Christianity and every other theistic worldview, including Islam. Dawkins says the station’s accusation that he has engaged in abusive speech about Islam is libel. More...
Hugh Hewitt: Supporting Our Troops in Dangerous Times
August 14, 2017 21:03 - 1 minute - 531 KBRecently an Iranian drone came within 100 yards of an American F-18 in the Persian Gulf. After a U.S. Navy ship fired warning shot, an Iran Navy patrol boat charged our ship before veering away. Recently I asked National Security Advisor General H. R. McMaster if the rules of engagement for U.S. forces operating in close proximity to the increasingly reckless Iranian forces were clear. General McMaster gave an emphatic “yes”—and also noted that President Trump would stand behind any America...
Lanhee Chen: The Real-World Impact of Regulatory Reform
August 11, 2017 17:25 - 1 minute - 534 KBOn the campaign trail last year, Donald Trump vowed repeatedly to cut and limit federal regulations that threaten to kill jobs and restrict economic growth. So far, he’s made good on that promise. A study just out from the American Action Network found that in their first six months, the Trump administration has proposed regulations at a far slower rate than during a similar period of time during the Obama administration. And for every new regulation the Trump administration has proposed...
It's Time to Focus on the North Korean Madman
August 10, 2017 18:16 - 39 minutes - 18.2 MBTownhall Review--August 12, 2017. Hugh Hewitt speaks with Congressman Mike Gallagher, a former Marine and a member of the House and Armed Services Committee about the direct threat N Korea posses against the U.S air base in Guam. Hewitt also interviews Robert Costa, reporter for the Washington Post, about President’s Trump's recent heated rhetoric towards N Korea. Sam Malone, from AM1070 The Answer in Houston, turned to Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis on how this N Korean threat is viewed from the ...
Hugh Hewitt: The Media's Hyperbole Over Trump's "Fire and Fury" Comments
August 10, 2017 17:45 - 1 minute - 493 KBPresident Trump’s “fire and fury” comments about North Korea set off the predictable hyperbole among his blindly furious foes on the cable shows, few of whom seem to grasp that the North Korea crisis has been growing since almost the Armistice was signed and accelerating since Bill Clinton’s much-celebrated then and understood as disastrous today deal of 1994. Neither George W. Bush’s nor Barack Obama’s various diplomatic overtures yielded much besides more tests, more time, and now more nu...
Albert Mohler: Oregon to Compel Its Citizens to Pay for Abortion
August 09, 2017 17:45 - 1 minute - 619 KBOregon legislators earlier in the summer adopted legislation that will now make Oregon not only the state with the most liberal abortion laws in the nation, but also the only state that will now compel all of its citizens to pay for abortion. As the editors of the National Review commented, “Once upon a time, Democrats wanted abortion to be ‘safe, legal, and rare.’ Today, that mantra is ‘unregulated, on demand, and’—in the state of Oregon—‘free.’” ABC News indicated just how radical this l...
Albert Mohler: Death Of Charlie Gard Is Tragically Revealing
August 08, 2017 16:40 - 1 minute - 594 KBThere are still very important lessons to learn from the life and death of little Little Charlie Gard. Over the course of the last several weeks, no story has been as important as the tragedy of this little baby in the United Kingdom with a rare mitochondrial disease. His story first came to world attention when his parents made a public appeal to the people of Britain and all around the world of the fact that they were no longer able to make decisions on behalf of their infant son and his ...
Michael Medved: Necessary Allies, Not Implacable Enemies
August 07, 2017 17:59 - 1 minute - 589 KBTo place our polarized politics in proper perspective, conservatives need to look back at the nearly half-century struggle known as “the Cold War.” The Soviet Union and its satellites really did amount to an “Evil Empire” and the US and our allies constituted the necessary counterweight of goodness and decency. But many of the most important nations in the West—including Britain, France, Germany and Canada—were really “welfare states” with centralized, government-dominated economic policies...