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No Compassion for Men 

    The Wall Street Journal recently published a piece highlighting the rise in “men suing over their partners’ abortions.” The piece framed these lawsuits as mere ploys from the ‘anti-abortion movement’ to target abortion providers, suggesting that the male plaintiffs...
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A Dystopian Nightmare: Chemical Abortion Pills Enable Abusers 

  Last week,  the New York Post reported that an Illinois man had been charged with intentionally drugging his pregnant girlfriend with chemical abortion drugs, which resulted in the loss of her 7-week-old preborn baby. The perpetrator, Emerson Evans, has since been charged...
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Home Alone

  Home Alone, the 1990 John Hughes blockbuster, has become a perennial Christmas favorite. Other American “Christmas movies” of post-modern vintage, for example Die Hard (1988) and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989), apart from a surface-smattering of tinsel and...
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The Tongue of the Taught

(This piece was originally posted on October 23, 2015.) __________________________________________________________________ The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he...
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