Would Federally Paid Family Leave Be An Entitlement Program?
August 18, 2018 Since the election of President Trump, his daughter, Ivanka Trump, has made paid maternity and family leave a priority of the administration.
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Mislaying Our Moral Compass
The devastating results of legalized gambling in the U.S. are huge: families torn apart, massive amounts of personal debt, large numbers of children gambling, and even suicides. How can we repair the damage to society or at least slow down gambling expansion?
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Celebrating a Mother
May 13, 2018 My Mother, Phyllis Schlafly (1924-2016) “You sound just like your mother!” said the NPR reporter to me. What a compliment! I gave
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Who’s the Man?
What is it to “be strong,” to “quit ourselves like men?” This exhortation is given to us by Paul the Apostle and it applies to men and women, calling us to be strong and not give up.
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The Transgender Totalitarians Can Now Legally Take Your Kids
An Ohio court has removed a teenaged girl from the custody of her parents because they refused to consent to dangerous and experimental medical treatment.
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Real Men Are Pro-Life
Last week we were treated to a pathetic spectacle when pro-abortion fanatics started the “Men For Choice” campaign. It gave a bunch of men the chance to publicly declare their affinity for abortion.
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Capitol Hill Report — 5/26/17
Rep. Raúl Labrador (R-Idaho) recently introduced the Michael Davis, Jr. and Danny Oliver in Honor of State and Local Law Enforcement Act (H.R. 2431 “Davis-Oliver Act”) which was marked-up in the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
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Happy Mother’s Day
On this first Mother’s Day since the passing of my mother, I am reminded of what my extraordinary mother, Phyllis Schlafly, taught me.
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China Needs More Children – And So Do We
It made front-page headlines around the world when China’s Communist Party announced the end of its notorious “one child” policy. Imposed by Chinese dictator Deng Xiaoping in the late 1970s, the one-child limit has been ruthlessly enforced with forced abortion, infanticide, sterilization, and heavy fines on families that dared to have a second child.
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How Congress Should Respond to Justice Kennedy
Justice Kennedy’s opinion for a 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court has rightly been condemned for its lack of grounding in the Constitutional text he is sworn to uphold. Unable to find gay marriage in either the due process clause or the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, Kennedy ultimately rests his case on what Justice Clarence Thomas sarcastically called the “dignity clause” of the Constitution.
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Judicial Supremacists vs. ‘We, the People’
Republican Party platforms have frequently stressed the central importance of the traditional family based on a married husband and wife, because that is the only way to achieve a self-reliant, self-supporting economic unit that minimizes the need for a welfare state.
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Justice Kennedy Learns a New Word
Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy learned and used a new word during the Supreme Court’s oral argument about Marriage. He said, “The word that keeps coming back to me in this case is millennia.”
Continue reading →The Killing in South Carolina
Why was Walter Scott running away from a policeman who tried to stop him because of a broken tail light? The media are trying to make a South Carolina policeman’s killing of a black man, Walter Scott, another sensational case of racism, but the media have missed the point of the tragedy.
Continue reading →What’s Happening on College Campuses?
Who would have thought, only a few years ago, that our basic First Amendment right of free speech would be under attack on college campuses (of all places!)? But those are now ordinary campus events.
Continue reading →Who Killed the American Family?
Who Killed the American Family? A great deal has been written about the decline in the percentage of Americans who are living in a traditional nuclear family.
Continue reading →The Best Interest of the Dog
The supposed standard for child custody in family courts is the “best interest of the child.” The Vermont supreme court has now extended that to the best interest of the dog.
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