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19th Century Pro-Life Laws on Abortion Probably Allowed Your Birth
Post Date: 2013-02-18 19:26:06 by Ferret Mike
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Abortion was common in America in the middle of the nineteenth century. James Mohr devoted a complete chapter in his 1978 book, Abortion in America, to “The Great Upsurge of Abortion 1840-1880,” estimating that at least 20 percent of pregnancies were ending in induced abortion at the time. Mohr’s evidence that abortion was frequent came largely from articles and books written by physicians. One, The Great Crime of the Nineteenth Century,by Edmund Hale, claimed two-thirds of pregnancies ended in induced abortions. A Boston physician, Horatio Robinson Storer, M.D. (1830-1922), (picture left) was particularly concerned about the high rate of abortion occurring primarily for ...
The Paradigm Shift Dilemma
Post Date: 2013-02-18 10:21:17 by We The People
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The Paradigm Shift Dilemma Nelson Hultberg Paradigms are mega-systems of thought that explain certain realms of reality so as to shift mankind toward new visions. For example, mercantilism, Lockean limited government, species evolution, Pasteurian medicine, quantum physics, Keynesian economics, and welfare-state politics are paradigms that developed in their respective fields over the past several centuries. History is a continual process of shifting toward new paradigms in which the established thought of society is dramatically altered. Paradigm shifts can be either positive or negative. When positive, these shifts are the manifestations of truth's discovery and a better way of ...
Time for the Unthinkable
Post Date: 2013-02-18 10:14:08 by We The People
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In the aftermath of the sickening travesty that Obama's reelection represents, pundits on the right are building up their strategic juices to project how conservatives and libertarians can "take over the Republican Party" and begin taking the country back. My answer to them is: It will never happen! Oh, we can take the country back, all right, but not through control of the GOP. The ideological sycophants that comprise the GOP couldn't take back a sack of sunflowers from spinsters in a rest home. Far too many pundits on the right have ceased to think. Irrationality saturates their minds regarding how to confront the political leprosy that Obama represents. This is ...
Why Do Societies Give Up?
Post Date: 2013-02-14 07:09:37 by A K A Stone
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Why do once-successful societies ossify and decline? Hundreds of reasons have been adduced for the fall of Rome and the end of the Old Regime in 18th-century France. Reasons run from inflation and excessive spending to resource depletion and enemy invasion, as historians attempt to understand the sudden collapse of the Mycenaeans, the Aztecs and, apparently, the modern Greeks. In literature from Catullus to Edward Gibbon, wealth and leisure -- and who gets the most of both -- more often than poverty and exhaustion implode civilization. One recurring theme seems consistent in Athenian literature on the eve of the city's takeover by Macedon: social squabbling over slicing up a shrinking ...
Calvin Coolidge: The ‘Scrooge’ Who Begat Plenty
Post Date: 2013-02-12 09:57:17 by A K A Stone
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Civility to one’s opponents, certainty, restraint, federalism, economy, thrift, and respect for faith: these and other Coolidge ideals are needed today. Debt takes its toll. To no one had this ever seemed clearer than to a 61-year-old farmer named Oliver Coolidge, who languished in Woodstock Common Jail in Windsor County, Vermont, in the spring of 1849. Oliver was behind bars because he owed a neighbor, Frederick Wheeler, $24.23. He had not honored a contract because he lacked the money to honor it. Now his debt had climbed to $29.48 because the justice of the peace had ruled that he had to carry the costs of the creditor, $5, and a fine of 25 cents for the serving of papers. ...
The most honest three and a half minutes of television, EVER...
Post Date: 2013-02-09 15:01:31 by Ferret Mike
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Poster Comment:America indeed is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
Is Rand Paul Right About Benghazi?
Post Date: 2013-02-04 09:15:23 by A K A Stone
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Hillary Clinton’s last hurrah at the State Department – her appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Benghazi – was outrageous in many respects, although the partisan fury of her Republican interrogators did more to obscure the facts than reveal them. However, perhaps their partisan zeal provoked her into the kind of response that hinted there was more to the attack than she could publicly admit. Under questioning by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin), she threw up her hands and declared: "With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest, or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided ...
Progressive Failure Is On Full Display in California
Post Date: 2013-02-03 11:56:07 by A K A Stone
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California’s modern-day progressive Democrats keep crowing about the huge success they’ve had in taming the state’s budget deficit thanks to Prop. 30’s tax increases and other “reforms,” and now are championing the Jerry Brown model as a blueprint for the nation. Be very afraid. It’s bad enough that other states have to deal with our residents, who are fleeing our success-punishing tax and regulatory regimen, but now, apparently, they are going to have to deal with our bad ideas, promoted through smug lectures from California’s liberal politicians. Not surprisingly, the national media have been quick to tout California’s Democratic-led ...
Savage: Rubio backers 'secretly working for Hillary'
Post Date: 2013-02-03 10:01:48 by A K A Stone
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“We are not a bilingual nation,” Dr. Savage reminded listeners this week, as the debate raged over immigration reforms proposed by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. “Can you name one other nation on earth that has a foreign population of about 10 percent who will not speak the language of the land?” (FREE audio) “Why are the Republicans latching on to Marco Rubio?” Savage continued. “Just because he’s Latino? That’s enough?” (FREE audio embedded above) “Rubio’s personal story is inspiring. But he’s not a presidential candidate,” Savage said. “If you hear about Republicans pushing Marco Rubio in 2016, that means ...
The Three Types of People You Will Meet in Liberal Hell
Post Date: 2013-02-03 09:49:56 by A K A Stone
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First they came for the Cakemakers. Over in Oregon, two lesbians came to Sweet Cakes and demanded a wedding cake. The owner let them know that he only does cakes for men and women looking to get married. No sooner did the door close than the Oregon Department of Justice, which had already solved all the other crimes in the state, began an investigation. Aaron and Melissa Klein, their 3 kids and their little cake shop (caramel pecan cheesecake available) had run afoul of the political establishment. "I'd rather have my kids see their dad stand up for what he believes in," Klein said, "then to see him bow down because one person complained." Bowing down is the ...
United States the Biggest Money Printing Loser
Post Date: 2013-02-03 09:33:42 by A K A Stone
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In Switzerland, it's not just the clocks that are cuckoo. Over the past four years Swiss politicians and central bankers have gone on an unprecedented buying spree of foreign exchange reserves. In 2012, their cache swelled to as much as $420 billion worth of various currencies, primarily the euro. This figure is a seven-fold increase since 2008 and equates to 70% of the country's annual GDP. The sum translates to $200,000 per family of four, enough to keep the Swiss in clocks, chocolates, and fondue for many years to come. The Swiss leadership will claim the money has been "invested" with an eye to the future, but what they've done is impoverished themselves in the ...
Will Christian Leaders Finally Compromise on ObamaCare?
Post Date: 2013-02-02 22:05:16 by A K A Stone
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A response to my column, “Catholics Defy ObamaCare! What About Fundamentalist Churches and Universities?” reveals a lack of understanding many people have as to the responsibility of Christians in the face of government intrusion into their ministries. Most people obviously do not understand what all historians have known for two thousand years. The second century church leader, Tertullian observed, “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.” Pagans (all non-Christians) observed that Christians who willingly went to their deaths influenced numerous unbelievers to trust Christ who then themselves became martyrs. My critic sarcastically asked, “And how much ...
American Gun Owners are Falsely Accused
Post Date: 2013-02-02 21:00:22 by A K A Stone
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News Crew Knowingly Interviews Rapist As “Anti-Gun” Expert
Post Date: 2013-02-01 08:22:42 by CZ82
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News Crew Knowingly Interviews Rapist As “Anti-Gun” Expert January 31, 2013 at 1:16 pm / by Karen O'Day Once upon a time, if you wanted reliable information you looked no further than your local news. Not so much today. A news crew from WHIO-TV recently interviewed convicted rapist Jerome McCorry about his opinion on gun control. McCorry is a man who is unable to own a firearm because of his own felony conviction and yet he was asked how he feels about rights that belong to law-abiding citizens. (Hmmm…a rapist who’s against gun control? Who would have thought!) Of course criminals are against gun control; they want to be in control of them! However the news ...
Here Comes Honey Jigaboo Boo
Post Date: 2013-01-14 22:31:09 by Abcdefg
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Cable TV’s Oxygen channel was founded in part by Oprah Winfrey, but it appears to have finally jumped the shvartze with a proposed program called All My Babies’ Mamas. Originally slated to appear in the spring, the one-hour special now hovers in reality-show limbo due to a torrent of protest from outraged Pundits of Color. Their chief lament is that the show unfairly attacks, demeans, and stereotypes the black community despite the fact that it is, well, a reality show starring real black people. Really black people. Atlanta-based rapper Shawty Lo (born Carlos Walker) is the man whose loins produced all those babies from all those mamas—eleven babies and ten mamas, to be ...
Obama defeats the Israel Lobby
Post Date: 2013-01-13 15:46:52 by Ferret Mike
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As long as Israel's security is not put at risk - "and no president would put it at risk" - the president will prevail. "The Department of Defence personifies US national security and once President Obama made clear that he would nominate Hagel, the game was over," writes author [Reuters] In 1983 or thereabouts, during my four year stint at AIPAC, the powerful organisation that is the main component of the pro-Israel lobby, I asked Tom Dine, its executive director, if a president of the United States could ever successfully challenge Israel's behaviour even in cases when US national security interests were clearly at stake. My question related specifically to ...
Why the 2nd Amendment
Post Date: 2013-01-08 21:26:06 by Abcdefg
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Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., shootings, said: "The British are not coming. ... We don't need all these guns to kill people." Lewis' vision, shared by many, represents a gross ignorance of why the framers of the Constitution gave us the Second Amendment. How about a few quotes from the period and you decide whether our Founding Fathers harbored a fear of foreign tyrants.Alexander Hamilton: "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed," adding later, "If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right ...
The Role of 'Educators'
Post Date: 2013-01-08 21:21:54 by Abcdefg
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Many years ago, as a young man, I read a very interesting book about the rise of the Communists to power in China. In the last chapter, the author tried to explain why and how this had happened.Among the factors he cited were the country's educators. That struck me as odd, and not very plausible, at the time. But the passing years have made that seem less and less odd, and more and more plausible. Today, I see our own educators playing a similar role in creating a mindset that undermines American society.Schools were once thought of as places where a society's knowledge and experience were passed on to the younger generation. But, about a hundred years ago, Professor John Dewey of ...
If you come to disarm America by confiscating our guns, we will kill you.
Post Date: 2013-01-05 22:02:37 by A K A Stone
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Pat Buchanan gets it; John McLaughlin does not. People who are buying up all this hardware and ammo are not planning on turning the over to government thugs and murderers. McLaughlin, understand this and burn it into your East Coast pea brain: If you come to disarm America by confiscating our guns, we will kill you. Molon Labe — if you dare. Remember this, too: Your side is outnumbered more than 230 to 1. Do you still feel froggy? Then jump, frog.
KWANZAA: HOLIDAY BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FBI
Post Date: 2012-12-26 23:03:15 by Abcdefg
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Is it just me, or does Kwanzaa seem to come earlier and earlier each year? And let's face it, Kwanzaa's gotten way too commercialized. A few years ago, I suspended my annual Kwanzaa column because my triumph over this fake holiday seemed complete. The only people still celebrating Kwanzaa were presidential-statement writers and white female public school teachers. But it seems to be creeping back. A few weeks ago, House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., complained about having to stick around Washington for fiscal cliff negotiations by accusing Republicans of not caring about "families" coming together to bond during Kwanzaa. The private schools have picked up ...
Vain search for meaning in massacre
Post Date: 2012-12-24 19:23:56 by Abcdefg
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The infanticidal maniac of Sandy Hook was merely conscripting grade-school extras for a hollow, hyper-narcissistic act of public suicide The 16th-century Coventry Carol, a mother's lament for her lost son, is the only song of the season about the other children of Christmas – the first-born of Bethlehem, slaughtered on Herod's orders after the Magi brought him the not-so-glad tidings that an infant of that city would grow up to be King of the Jews. As Matthew tells it, even in a story of miraculous birth, in the midst of life is death. The Massacre of the Innocents loomed large over the Christian imagination: in Rubens' two renderings, he fills the canvas with ...
The Year of 'Our Savior' Obama
Post Date: 2012-12-24 19:07:09 by Abcdefg
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The year 2012 was defined by the calculated re-emergence of Obama worship, no matter how obvious his failures in office. After his reelection, the actor Jamie Foxx let it all hang out in a tribute at the BET Awards on November 25: “First of all, give an honor to God and our lord and savior, Barack Obama!” For that President Jesus gasbaggery, Foxx was selected as one of the winners of the Media Research Center’s Best Notable Quotables of 2012, a collection of liberal foolishness selected by 46 judges of distinction in the conservative media. Foxx won the “Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award for Celebrity Vapidity.” But Foxx wasn’t alone in the idolatry ...
CLASSIC REWIND - 1965: 'If I Were the Devil' (Warning for a Nation) - Paul Harvey
Post Date: 2012-12-24 12:16:45 by A K A Stone
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If I were the Devil . . . I mean, if I were the Prince of Darkness, I would of course, want to engulf the whole earth in darkness. I would have a third of its real estate and four-fifths of its population, but I would not be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree, so I should set about however necessary to take over the United States. I would begin with a campaign of whispers. With the wisdom of a serpent, I would whisper to you as I whispered to Eve: “Do as you please.” “Do as you please.” To the young, I would whisper, “The Bible is a myth.” I would convince them that man created God instead of the other way around. I would confide that what ...
Libertysflame's Question of the Day: If we ban guns will there be an increase in knife related deaths? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2012-12-24 00:45:54 by A K A Stone
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So I was thinking about all this talk of banning guns. If they ban guns do you think that there will be an increase in knife violence? I do. I know it If you are going to kill someone you are going to do it. Murder has existed since the first family. It will always exist. It is already against the law to kill someone. So by outlawing guns you are just taking peoples rights away and leaving them defenseless to someone can simply print out a gun and kill you anyways. It is pointless. Or is there an ulterior motive? 1. Would there be an increase in knife violence if guns were banned. (note you are dumb if you think they will stop with the guns currently targeted). 2. What is that ulterior ...
Your country on Democratics... Your country on Republicans...
Post Date: 2012-12-23 21:59:33 by A K A Stone
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