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  The “casting couch” is code for men in positions of authority in Hollywood and on Broadway using their power to extract sex from aspiring actresses in exchange for acting roles. Call it rape with a bow on it. Psychobabblers tell us rape is about power, not sex. Bullocks.... Read More →

  Given that 81-year-old Democrat Joe Biden has taken himself out of the US presidential race, attention over the age issue has turned more sharply towards 78-year-old Republican Donald Trump. At that age he is somewhat older than an earlier presidential candidate for... Read More →

  In the hopeful spring of 1990, soon after the Berlin Wall had fallen and as freedom-seeking crowds of Eastern Europeans were kicking in the rotten doors of a crumbling Soviet empire, one of the great figures of the dawning decade stood by the Washington Monument looking... Read More →

  Abortion and euthanasia are two of the most scorched-over debate battlefields in the West. Positions for and against tend to stalemate because questions about life and death are often seen as absolute. When does life begin? When does it end? Answers to these can help... Read More →

  In a recent blog post entitled “Incrementalism is a Losing Strategy”, pro-life activist Bernadette Patel takes a pessimistic view of the current political climate. She particularly criticizes the strategy of passing imperfect laws like 15-week bans. Her... Read More →

  The preposterous idea that someone too senile to be a candidate is none-the-less fit to serve as president (have your 25th Amendment and eat it too) is a building block in the Democratic Party’s new Lego–like creation—an American electoral system engineered to fit their... Read More →

    In this seaside community in Beautiful British Columbia (as their license plates proclaim) where my mother- and father-in-law retired, seventy-five steel steps separate the trail where the staircase begins and the beach that lies below at the foot of a steep... Read More →

  Not long ago I was inundated with pro-life friends lamenting the Supreme Court abortion pill ruling. All I could say was “They didn’t have a strong case.” Besides their lack of standing, I didn’t understand why doctors who never prescribed the pills had brought the lawsuit... Read More →

  In July, Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio met with some 130 plaintiffs and other related parties involved in several lawsuits against the Japanese government. The plaintiffs are seeking damages for forced sterilization operations carried out under the Eugenics... Read More →

  In the ’80s a tiny article tucked away in the corner of my morning newspaper caught my eye and my imagination. It was about how scientists were experimenting with taking eggs from two separate cows, combining them in a petri dish and then, using a process that would leave the... Read More →