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and therein is the rub for some of our fellow citizens. ...more
October 31, 2009
I was absolutely appalled when I read in Highlands Today that our county judges have the right to okay an abortion for a minor child without any knowledge of the abortion made to the child's parents. ...more
October 18, 2009
In a recent letter to the editor, CF Valle Jr. said that according to the New Testament, the Lord Jesus is the greatest living liberal today. The writer has found a way to twist the definition of liberal with the "liberal lifestyle." ...more
August 6, 2009
I thought that the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) was not going to happen and that taxpayers would not be forced to fund abortions. ...more
July 30, 2009
Pope Benedict XVI received Nancy Pelosi, one of the most prominent abortion rights politicians in the United States, and told her Wednesday that Catholic politicians have a duty to protect life "at all stages of its development." ...more
February 19, 2009
In an arrogant move, Barack Obama, the day after the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision making abortion legal, an anniversary protested by thousands two days after his inauguration, signed the order reversing the ban on federal funding for international groups that perform abortions. ...more
January 28, 2009
Vatican officials said Saturday they were disappointed by President Barack Obama's decision to end a ban on federal funding for international groups that perform abortions or provide information on them. ...more
January 25, 2009
Welcome to Washington, soon to be "Mr. President." I know you've been here before for a short time as senator, but this is different. This is The Big Time, the world stage and you are the leading man. ...more
January 17, 2009
Margaret Langer's philosophy openly targeted them as "weeds" and yet black's suffer 37 percent of the 40 million abortions defacing our land of the free. ...more
November 16, 2008
Let's pretend abortions had not been legalized in 1973. Pretend it is 1991 and 18 years after Row v. Wade. Assume 1 million babies had been allowed to live and they are now 18 and entering the work place. I know many will still be in school but the following are conservative estimates. Do your own math using your estimates. Let's assume they begin work at an average of $12,000. FICA taxes are 15 percent including their employers share. Say the next year another million had been spared execution and begin work and this continues through year 2008. Since government does nothing well (Thomas Jefferson), all the FICA taxes earned nothing. Since I am an optimist I also consider over this 17-year period that wages and FICA taxes go up on average of 5 percent a year. By the end of 2008 the Social Security Trust Fund will have collected 2.6 trillion more dollars. ...more
November 15, 2008
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