Fr. Frank Pavone to Speak at Focus on Life Event: Pro-life Cause More Important Than Ever

On Thursday, August 16, 2018, at 6 pm, Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life will be the keynote speaker at the 2018 Focus on Life annual benefit dinner at the San Marino Club in Troy, MI.

Fr. Pavone, along with Master of Ceremonies Bob Dutko, host of Detroit’s top Christian talk radio show, know it's important to attend this special dinner event because now, more than ever, supporters of pro-life causes need to remain vigilant. Despite pro-life victories in the White House and US Congress, there are valiant efforts underway to undo the progress made in promoting legal protection of human life from conception to natural death. Being equipped with the right information and guidance is vital.

In hearing one of the most eloquent and influential speakers on pro-life causes, Fr. Pavone will remind us of the challenge at hand, and what all pro-life supporters need to do to keep the positive momentum going, especially with the November elections looming fast.

The cost for individuals is $35 ($45 at the door) and $350 for a table of 10. Tickets may be purchased online at www.rtlmacomb.org or checks may be made out to and mailed to Right to Life Macomb County Northwest, P.O. Box 380402, Clinton Twp., MI 48038. Either form of registration must be received by August 9, 2018.

Register now for an evening of fellowship, good food, and what's sure to be an interesting talk! For more information, contact Gino Vitale at 586-344-1150 or Mary Peleman at 313-296-1770.

Happy Flag Day 2018!

Clearly, I have fallen off my regular blogging ritual! Where does the time go? The days get more and more crowded all the time, and unfortunately, I have to let some things go by the wayside, like regular updates here.

But I wanted to jump on today to acknowledge a day that is very close to my heart, as long-time readers of this silly little blog may know. It's Flag Day!

Since I was little I have always loved this day (for more reasons than one, as some may know:-) But one of the thrills I remember as a young kid was seeing so many houses in my neighborhood flying Old Glory so majestically on this day. I loved how television stations would announce Flag Day in between commercials. I loved the respect all this showed for our Flag and the meaning behind it, namely freedom, pride, patriotism. It drove home for me from a young age that our country is special, blessed by God, and that we are blessed to live in it.

It has saddened me over the years to see fewer people flying their flags on this day. Maybe they don't own them anymore. Maybe they don't even know it's Flag Day. I certainly rarely hear it announced anywhere anymore. But worse is to see the growing disrespect and disdain for the Flag that is popping up all around. Some universities have even attempted to ban it altogether, while some student governments have ruled that it can be flown on campus as long as it is accompanied by a Gay Pride flag. That's sad, because it clearly means students don't realize the inclusivity for which the U.S. Flag stands. 

There is greater vocalizing these days that the Flag is divisive, representative of oppression and racism and any other ills misanthropes want to throw at it. Now we also have people refusing to stand for it as our National Anthem is sung, which is truly disheartening to see.

But for me, the Flag will always represent what America is, the greatest force for good this world has ever known, and I for one, will always fly my flag proudly. I hope others will too.

                                     Happy Flag Day!!!


                                                               

Michigan House Bill to honor suicide should be rejected

Not that I'm on any kind of suicide kick or anything, but maybe to illuminate the point of my last post, a bill introduced in the Michigan legislature last week actually wants to honor suicide. 

HB 5914, introduced by Rep. Sara Cambensy, D-Marquette,  aims to designate a portion of M-95 as the "Rep. John Kivela Memorial Highway." Kivela, a Marquette Democrat, died last year by committing suicide. 

Understandably, Cambensy, a fellow Marquette resident and colleague of Kivela, would feel a strong sense of wanting to remember him. But we already have a suicide epidemic in America. Look at the number of young people killing themselves as a "solution" to bullying or other challenges that life presents to them. Where are they getting the direction that suicide is never the answer to anything, no matter how intense the problem?

Publicly honoring those who kill themselves would only romanticize and glamorize suicide. Unstable people contemplating such a devastating action may see a highway memorial as encouragement that taking one's own life is not only acceptable, but noble.

Taking it a step further, someone seeking vainglory of any kind may see the naming of a stretch of highway after themselves as pretty appealing. Since they may not achieve that honor through the actual type of accomplishment normally required, why not consider other means of attention, especially the type that would  live on in perpetuity in such a public way? Obviously, were HB 5914 to pass, suicide would be moved to the list of the type of accomplishment that can get one the attention and praise he seeks.

The obvious point, of course, is that suicide is a tragedy, not a heroic action deserving of honor. In no way should the Michigan House even consider passing HB 5914. 

What they could consider passing though is HB 5923, also introduced last week, which asks to designate a portion of I-94 in Jackson County as the "Corrections Officers Jack Budd and Josephine McCallum Memorial Highway" in honor of the two prison guards killed in the line of duty in 1987. 

 

Honoring those who lose their lives against their will while serving others should take precedence over those who choose to take their own lives, no matter how tragic the circumstances that led to that fatal choice. Only by rejecting suicide in all ways can we even hope to restore the full value of life that has been lost in a culture all too eager to embrace death.

HB 5914 needs to be rejected.

Normalizing suicide is nothing to celebrate

The news of multiple deaths and injuries to the youth hockey team in Canada is gut wrenching. These young people and the accompanying adults were on their way to a game this past Friday, probably just enjoying the moment, when the unthinkable happened, snuffing out lives way too early, without any indication of imminent tragedy. My heart breaks for all those in unimaginable grief right now, especially given the shocking nature of the tragedy. 

But the devastating event that happened to the hockey team has me thinking of another tragedy that recently unfolded in Canada. It, too, involves death, but, in this case, takes on a wholly different tone of tragedy because the two people who died purposely set out to end their lives under Canada’s permissive euthanasia law.

In a recent interview with The Globe and Mail, George and Shirley Brickenden reminisced about their first date – a "fairy-tale evening that led Mr. Brickenden to propose marriage six days later". The Brickendens knew that six days after this interview they would be dead. On March 27, George and Shirley died holding hands in their own bed in a Toronto retirement home. Their children watched from the foot of the bed as their parents drew their last breaths at almost the same moment. The couple died by lethal injection administered by a “physician”.

Suicide is terrible in itself. But to aid someone in procuring their own death is profoundly wrong, and yet another sad reminder of the culture of death in which we live. One might use the argument that the couple was in great pain and bedridden, which still wouldn’t justify suicide, but, "two nights before their death,” the Globe and Mail reports, the Brickendens “went out for one last date at Opus, their favourite restaurant in Toronto's Yorkville neighbourhood. The next night, they bid farewell to more than 20 members of their immediate family at a bon voyage dinner at their daughter Pamela's apartment."

I’ve been to my share of farewell parties. They're usually bittersweet, and can even be painful, especially at the end of the party when it’s time to say goodbye to the guest of honor, who is usually simply just going to another job or moving out of town. It's hard to fathom the type of mindset George and Shirley’s loved ones must have been in when that party came to an end. 

For the media to romanticize and applaud the couple's decision to end their own lives indicates how eroded the sacredness of life has become. We're no longer supposed to celebrate things like large families or patriotism or simple acts of chivalry, but are expected to embrace murder-suicide as something good because it allows us to shirk any amount of suffering - something we're supposed to reject at all costs. It's the quality of life that has become sacred - not life itself.  

And how far have we fallen that the children would not try to talk their parents out of this decision? Well, maybe they did try to no avail, but to then have a party? Talk about throwing in the towel. Even the Dean of Toronto's St. James Cathedral admitted he had "without hesitation" supported the Brickenden’s wish for their funeral to be held at the Anglican church. When a supposed house of God normalizes and embraces the throwing away of life that God creates, we had better take notice and we had better take a stand. 

A similar case took place last year in Oregon when Charlie and Francie Emerick held hands as they died together in their bed after taking lethal doses of medication obtained under the state’s Death with Dignity law (actually over 1,300 similar cases have taken place since Oregon’s law passed). And as happened with the Brickendens, the Emerick’s children treated their parents’ self-imposed death as something noble. Their daughter, Sher Safran, even documented and filmed her parents’ conversations and preparations right up to their deaths. 

As Time reports, “It was supposed to be a remembrance only for the family, but they ultimately decided to have the clips edited into a film that could be shared outside of the immediate family." The result is "Living & Dying: A Love Story," a documentary that details the background of the Emericks’ final decision and their resolve in carrying it out. In other words, a documentary that attempts to put a sparkling spin on darkness.

“I thought it was brave and beautiful,” said Carol Knowles, a member of Francie Emerick’s book club, of the documentary. “You could see the care with which Charlie and Francie had made that decision.” If only Carol could have seen the tragedy unfolding before her very eyes. Maybe she would have been the voice the Emericks needed to hear.

“They had no regrets, no unfinished business,” the Emericks' daughter added. “It felt like their time, and it meant so much to know they were together.”

While the devil works feverishly to convince the world that death is something romantic at best, no big deal at worst, I wonder if, like with post-abortion syndrome, eventually members of these families are going to have significant emotional problems associated with the type of complicated grief that comes with major guilt. Unless they are sociopaths (which I doubt), they will only be able to stay in denial of the wrongfulness of these actions and their complicity in it for so long. At least, not to wish regret on them, I hope they come to that realization of wrongfulness, because that would signify hope that this darkness can eventually be overcome by the light of truth – the truth that life is sacred, and that even the suffering that often accompanies life is something to be valued.

The whole thing is abhorrent, but more than anything, it's just sad. No doubt abortion doctors would disagree. They probably see this rejection of the life that God created for us as an opportunity to expand their business. Now they can get them coming and going. In the meantime, as long as certain clergy, health professionals, and family members would have everyone believe that ending life is a good thing – and unless more of us stand up loudly for God’s truth - things will only get worse. At the very least, celebrating self-imposed death comes off looking like a slap in the face to those who are experiencing grief against their will. 

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Leftist censorship and misogyny alive and well...

Next week, Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg will appear before two congressional committees to discuss revelations that Facebook has lost control of the data of millions (or even billions) of users. But there's another scandal going on at Facebook: Conservative speech is being systematically targeted and censored.

It's been happening over many months. Earlier this year, Facebook announced a major change to its algorithm that took conservative posts out of your news feed. Zuckerberg said the change was made to promote "news that is trustworthy, informative, and local."

For many years now, conservative sites have been noting the negative impact of Facebook's algorithm changes, as their pages and posts "coincidentally" reach a smaller and smaller audience. Facebook also allows less and less traffic to move from Facebook to conservative homepages.

Recent evidence of this is revealed by what Facebook did to Breitbart, one of the largest conservative sites in the nation. Facebook is now tagging every post that links to a Breitbart story with an "about this article" info bubble that calls Breitbart a "far-right" website, and then says: "The site has published a number of falsehoods and conspiracy theories, as well as intentionally misleading stories. Its journalists are ideologically driven, and some of its content has been called misogynistic, xenophobic, and racist..."

As an aside, it makes me laugh that Breitbart is called misogynistic by Facebook while it completely ignored Hillary Clinton's recent comments in India where she actually said American women who voted for Trump did so because their husbands and male bosses coerced them into doing so. If that isn't hating on women, I don't know what is. But I guess a "champion" of women like Hillary is allowed such appalling speech as long as she touts the far left agenda every chance she gets.

As for Facebook and the other rulers of Silicon Valley, Congress may need to act to draw lines around what is or is not permissible, including how much of our own data is accessed by and sold to vendors for their own uses. But each of us needs to take a look at what we put out on social media; what we think it means to others; what we think is meant by social media connections with others; how we weigh it, and how much we can be manipulated by it. Above all, we need to be responsible for knowing what we can and should do to limit access to our own data if we don't want this sort of thing happening in the first place. 

Left's latest lunge at free speech will leave you speechless

Oral arguments took place today in a critical Supreme Court case that will decide whether the government has the power to force citizens and pro-life organizations to promote abortion.

The case involves three pro-life crisis pregnancy centers who are fighting a California law that requires them to promote abortion. In general, California AB 775 requires licensed medical centers that offer free, pro-life help to pregnant women to post a disclosure in printed and digital materials, and at both the entrance to their clinic and a visible location within the waiting area saying that the state of California provides free or low-cost abortion and contraception services.

The disclosure must also include a phone number for a county office that refers women to Planned Parenthood and others in the abortion industry, and forces unlicensed pregnancy centers to disclose they are not recognized by the state of California as an official medical facility. The notice must be in a font size and/or color that draws more attention to the disclosure than to the other words on the page, which obscure and crowd out their pro-life speech. Failure to comply carries civil fines up to $1,000 per violation.

To force crisis pregnancy centers to speak a message that goes directly against their religious beliefs and mission to save lives is a shocking and disturbing violation of the First Amendment’s protection of free speech – both the right to speak and the right to not speak.

The pregnancy centers subjected to this attempt to silence them provide free care and resources to thousands of Californians. Many of these women are alone and desperate for support, and a pro-life pregnancy resource center may be the only non-abortive option available for disadvantaged mothers who wish to choose life.

It's no secret that pro-faith, pro-life, and pro-family citizens and organizations are coming under increasingly hostile attack. It would be a serious blow to both the pro-life movement and free speech overall if the state is allowed to require forced speech from any citizen or organization. The Supreme Court should declare the law unconstitutional so as to block other states from following in California’s steps.

Can you imagine the racket we'd hear if Planned Parenthood were forced to advertise on its website and "clinics" where women can go to save their babies’ lives? I’m sure the noise would be deafening.

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A new low: "Christians" claim abortion is God's work

The season of Lent that we’re currently in apparently is having no impact on certain abortionists who claim their Christian faith actually gives them moral grounds for committing abortions.

“I became morally convinced that it was not a conflict of my Christian values to provide abortion care, and in fact it became unethical to me not to do so,” said self-proclaimed (and obvious relativist) "Christian" abortionist Willie Parker.

He recently published a memoir, “Life’s Work: A Moral Argument for Choice,” in which he wrote, “I believe that as an abortion provider, I am doing God’s work.” He also claims he is protecting women’s right to decide their futures for themselves and to live their lives as they see fit.

Question: isn’t God’s work the child in the womb that these abortionists are destroying?

Sarah Wallett, the medical director at Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis, has been equally outspoken about Christianity as her inspiration for ending the lives of babies in the womb. “I can imagine no person who is in greater need of Christ-like love and excellent medical care than a woman who is faced with an untenable pregnancy, and I am grateful every day to feel thy spirit and thy guiding hand on my work,” she said in a recent interview with the Memphis Daily News.

Who is “thy” in Wallett’s proclamation, I wonder: Christ, our Savior, Who came to us through, of all places, the womb?

She went on to say, “I think part of changing the conversation around all aspects of reproductive healthcare is having open, honest conversations about it. I hope to be able to provide accurate medical facts about this kind of care as well as compassionate, non-judgmental care for my patients.”

First, forgive me for wallowing in semantics, but an “untenable” pregnancy is, in the pro-abortion mindset, simply code for “unwanted” pregnancy. Second, since when do abortionists support “open, honest conversations” about the issue when there is a solid push to undermine pro-life initiatives, such as forcing crisis pregnancy centers to provide information on abortion services, or when abortion mills fight for the right of minors to procure abortions without parental consent?

On top of it, if people like Wallet want to “provide accurate medical facts”, they should start with the fact that abortion is not healthcare and abortion comes with documented health risks, which this “caring” community doesn’t care to acknowledge, let alone share with the women about whom they supposedly care.

Above all, no one can call himself a real Christian and ignore God’s Commandment, Thou Shalt Not Kill. These abortionists hide behind their pseudo-Christianity, but take an eraser to any of God’s laws that stand in the way of their anti-God agenda. They can assert all they want that they are doing God’s work, but in reality all they’re really doing is Satan’s bidding -- and, as Satan does best, they have been seriously deceived.

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Gun-free zones make schools easy targets

I'm not sure how much our hearts can take in yet another school shooting. I didn't jump right on this topic when it happened last week - Ash Wednesday of all days - because it's just too much. But I'm not going to talk about morals, or the impact of violent video games and psychotropic drugs, or the failure of the FBI to make good use of all the warnings it was given about this particular shooter. Those are all important things that do deserve attention. But for now, let's consider this from the perspective of common sense.

If you look at pretty much all of the public shootings we've had in the past few years, they all took place in gun-free zones. The little sticker on the door declaring certain places as such is supposed to deter a person hell-bent on murder, when all it does is remind law abiding citizens to leave their guns at home. This makes those law-abiding citizens in gun-free zones sitting ducks to those who want their 15 minutes of fame no matter the cost to human life. 

Nobody is arguing against sensible gun laws. We have plenty on the books already and most reasonable people are open to looking at common sense ways to keep guns out of the hands of those who should not have them. But look at places like Chicago, which has some of the toughest gun control laws in the nation. It also has one of the highest murder rates in the nation. The murder rate in Russia, where handguns are completely banned, is nearly four times higher than the US. And as we've all to often seen lately, people are using any means possible - cars, pipe bombs, etc. - to commit crime.  

Let's be real: criminals don't care about the law, so we need to be able to protect ourselves. Also, it's important not to lose sight of the fact that when deciding which movie theater to shoot up in Aurora, CO, of the eight theaters in the area, the gunman who unleashed a hail of bullets on movie goers admitted he specifically chose the theater he did because it was the only one of the eight listed as a gun-free zone.

I know this will go over like a lead balloon to some, but how many of these wanna be murderers would dare walk into a place that they knew would be teeming with armed law-abiding citizens? Maybe it's time to consider doing this at the schools. The murderers have their limits on who they'll pick on. After all, they're just murderers. They're not courageous. Like the Aurora, CO, killer, I doubt they'd dare go near a place that they knew could shoot them down before they could get off the first shot. 

Our jewelry stores and banks are protected with armed guards. Politicians are protected with armed guards. Maybe protecting our kids is worth looking into how we might responsibly arm schools as an option. Don't they deserve it? I am aware of all the reasons people may balk at this, but until we do change our culture to the point that the beasts among us change with it, I have yet to hear anyone come up with anything else at this point. Have you?

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"Mankind" does not exclude women

About a week ago, Canada's Senate passed a bill making the country's national anthem gender-neutral. The original line in question of “O Canada” read: O Canada! / Our home and native land! / True patriot love in all thy sons command.”

The bill changes the phrase "in all thy sons command" to "in all of us command." It must now receive "royal assent" from the governor general before it becomes law.

Heaven forbid someone might be offended that they are supposedly not included in an anthem meant to include all by its nature. But Justin Trudeau, Canada’s feminist Prime Minister, is fully on board with the gender neutralizing changes. Recall that just a few days ago he criticized a woman at a press conference for using the word “mankind” instead of “peoplekind.”

But don’t these worshipers of all things politically correct know that “mankind” and male pronouns overall simply refer to humanity in general, not just males of the human race?

But the speech police don’t care. It’s happening even in places like the Catholic Church. In song, for instance, some parishes I’ve attended for Mass change the word in “Let There Be Peace on Earth” from “brothers all are we” to “family all are we”, and in one prayer that has the words “for us men and for our salvation,” many I’ve visited simply omit the word “men.” I've even seen some people advocate changing the prayer "Our Father" to "Our Creator" (never mind that the words to that prayer come directly from Christ). Of course the women who may be offended by these “offensive” words are probably not attending Mass in the first place, and if they are, the priests allowing this nonsense are missing out on a key teaching opportunity to explain the true meaning behind certain words, and the true dignity of all humans.

In fact, any leader, just not clergy, who buys into the notion that differentiating by gender is somehow wrong overlook the fact that such differences lend to our dignity as human beings - they don't detract from it. Besides, the same people who demand all differences between genders be erased also are the ones who call for diversity. How can they claim to celebrate differences when they want to obliterate the things that make us truly unique?

Since Canadians elected their regressive alt-left Prime Minister, they’ve been getting a lot of these unfortunate things. No jobs, just lots of laws restricting speech and religion, government-controlled thought, and unrestricted spending on liberal fantasies.

But there is hope. We elected Obama twice before we deplorables stepped up to elect a common sense president not interested in hogwash. Maybe Canadians will eventually do the same. In the meantime, let’s hope our own country stands its ground in keeping someone like President Trump at the helm. Otherwise our country, in addition to our neighbors to the north should they not turn things around, are at risk for the political correctness, “tolerance,” and endless government control that are the death knell for any country.

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Democrats' hatred for America on full display

In a solid State of the Union address last night, President Donald Trump summarized his numerous victories from the past year, the accomplishments that have benefited everyday Americans, corporations, and our nation in general. He pointed out the 2.4 million new jobs, rising wages, record low unemployment, especially for black and Hispanic communities, major tax cuts, the end of the Obamacare mandate, and the like. He encouraged us to all work together and underscored our common ties as Americans. Between Trump and the crowd, you could just sense the feeling of goodness, integrity and hope for the future. Then there were the Democrats.

The same people who accuse Trump of being a rude, boorish bully were acting like two-year olds being withheld a coveted cookie. Based on the scowls of the Democratic members of Congress, apparently things like America, God and the Flag are all seen as hate speech now. The Democrats sat like stumps, or some kind of angry garden gnomes refusing to applaud even the issues that most Americans would applaud - like respect for our military, more jobs and lower taxes. Maybe that's the problem. The Democrats claim they are pro-America, while Trump is actually demonstrating it.

But when you're driven by nothing but blind hatred, and your idea of "progress" is keeping constituents economically enslaved, under-educated and dependent, of course you would fume at a president who is touting all the ways he is achieving real freedom and prosperity for Americans.

Unfortunately, in their petulant pouting and disrespect, the Democrats revealed their true hatred for America and succeeded only in looking like spoiled children. They should be embarrassed, but that would require the kind of character that at least desires to appear mature. The Democrats displayed nothing of the sort last night. 

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The truth hurts, but silence is worse

Save the date: On January 31, 2018, the Catholic LGBT ministry, Out at St. Paul, located at the Paulist Fathers motherhouse of St. Paul the Apostle Parish in New York City, will host their Winter Social at the Rise gay bar in Hell’s Kitchen. The Rise bar is a well-known gay bar in Manhattan that, as reported in LifeSite News, is "best known for its weekly drag shows and the bartenders who wear nothing but a jock-strap."

Another Catholic "LGBT outreach" ministry in the Archdiocese of New York, from St. Francis of Assisi Church, also hosted their annual “Mardi Gras” party at Rise bar last year.

There are actually several gay-affirmative LGBT ministries in New York City, including St. Francis de Sales, St. Francis Xavier, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Ignatius of Loyola, and the Church of the Blessed Sacrament.

The pastors of these parishes support these LGBT ministries' outings, but are they doing any favors to their congregation members who struggle with same-sex attraction? While the saying, “hate the sin, love the sinner” triggers eye-rolls by those who don’t want to hear it in the first place, it is, nonetheless, true, and to support actions clearly condemned in the Bible and Church teachings is a dereliction of duty on the part of clergy charged with shepherding their flocks.

In his book, “Homosexuality and the Catholic Church,” Fr. John Harvey, the founder of Courage, wrote, “A person with same-sex attraction must avoid gay bars, magazines, and Internet websites, just as a heterosexual person should not go to movies and night clubs which hold chastity in contempt.”

Does anyone think Jesus would initiate a meeting in a sordid gay bar, or suggest people go to a place where the bartenders are half naked and where debauchery is obviously taking place everywhere? I don’t think so.

We do know, however, that Jesus encountered people dealing with sins of the flesh. But He encountered them right where they were, instructing them to go and sin no more. He did not say go to a vile bar where you can be exposed to and tempted by more sin.  He led them out of, not into, their "sordid places".

As the head of the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship, Cardinal Robert Sarah, has said, "To omit the ‘hard sayings’ of Christ and His Church is not charity" - because, simply put, such silence endangers the salvation of souls. Will the clergy embracing these “outings” at gay bars be professing any of the Bible passages that clearly condemn homosexual activity, or will they be led by the mistaken idea that silence is the more loving path? Somehow, I don’t feel very hopeful that those who need to hear the truth the most will be hearing any part of it.

The latest Trump threat to women: Declaring life is sacred

President Donald Trump has declared today National Sanctity of Human Life Day (fittingly, it is, of course, also the anniversary of Roe v. Wade).

The White House proclamation says in part, “Today, we focus our attention on the love and protection each person, born and unborn, deserves regardless of disability, gender, appearance, or ethnicity. Much of the greatest suffering in our Nation’s history — and, indeed, our planet’s history — has been the result of disgracefully misguided attempts to dehumanize whole classes of people based on these immutable characteristics. We cannot let this shameful history repeat itself in new forms, and we must be particularly vigilant to safeguard the most vulnerable lives among us. This is why we observe National Sanctity of Human Life Day: to affirm the truth that all life is sacred, that every person has inherent dignity and worth, and that no class of people should ever be discarded as ‘non-human.’”

The President announced this proclamation this past Friday, the same day the annual March for Life took place to protest the Roe v. Wade decision that made abortion legal in all 50 states. While the proclamation was largely well received by the pro-life march participants, the other “Women’s March”, which took place the next day, did not lavish so much praise on Trump’s declaration of a National Sanctity of Human Life Day. 

While the women in this protest were busy hollering for rights that they already have, they showed little interest in the president’s insistence that all human lives have dignity. After all, to make that claim is an unspoken acknowledgement that even lives in the womb matter, and angry women who are protesting about –actually I’m still not sure what they’re protesting - don’t want to hear the president they despise say all lives matter. It makes their demand for the right to abortion on demand an inconvenient contradiction to the president’s claim that all lives have value. In other words, it gives them one more bit of fodder for despising the president, because, clearly, to them, not all lives do matter as long as some women promote the false premise that women are the sole determiners of which lives do matter, e.g. the ones they choose to give birth to.

To them, the president asserting that all lives matter is just another proof of the misogyny that women despise him for – while they turn a blind eye to the real louses – the Harvey Weinsteins and Al Frankens of the world – who actually do devalue women. But to the "Women's March" protesters, protecting human life is a catastrophic threat to their well-being which simply must be stopped.

As one woman at the “Women’s March” this past Saturday put it when asked about Trump’s declaring Jan. 22 National Sanctity of Human Life Day, “it’s just more proof that we have to fight for equality!”

What a pitiable state we’re in when declaring the worth of every human life is seen as somehow inequitable and threatening. I think the pink “feline” hats (and the stupid "Handmaid's Tale" bonnets that are a nod to the equally stupid book) have been pulled over their eyes. These women aren’t seeing a thing except the darkness that a lying culture of death has wrought upon them. 

Bailing on climate change in the face of reality

Despite bashing the President Donald Trump administration’s decision to withdraw from consideration of the Paris accord on climate change, none of the industrialized countries that have aligned themselves with the accord is on schedule to meet their respective targets for carbon emissions reduction. Now Germany, who was particularly vocal about its disapproval of Trump's decision, has announced it is altogether preparing to abandon its 2020 climate targets.

As reported in The Daily Signal, Germany had an aggressive plan to cut its greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels by the year 2020. But last November, a leaked document from the country’s Environmental Ministry projected the country would miss the mark by 8 percent without additional action. It's speculated that, in other words, even with generous subsidies for renewable power, the Germans would have had to implement some form of economy-restricting policy to curtail emissions, and the country just doesn't want to have to do that.

No matter. Even if the United States and the rest of the developed world were to meet their intended targets, it wouldn’t make any meaningful impact on global temperatures. The temperatures will change on their own. They always have. They'll go up and they'll go down. But the desire to use this normal fluctuation as justification for higher taxes and control of human behavior is just too good to pass up by those who love money and power.

But to state this plain truth about the real motives will get you slapped with the "denier" label. That in itself is insulting because it's the type of language that attempts to conflate those who question the "settled science" on climate change as a bad thing with those who would deny things like the Holocaust. Deny one bit of nonsense and it must mean you're willing to deny real evil - and that, of course, is evil of you. So the voices of the sane who refuse to fall for man-made climate change and man-made mass hysteria are marginalized and targeted for silencing.

This rhetorical trick against "deniers" reveals all you need to know about the desperate manipulation the climate planners are willing to engage in to realize their plot regardless of popular and justified skepticism concerning their regulatory and redistributionist policies.

It'll be interesting to see how it all plays out. Countries like Germany can talk a good game about their eagerness to embrace policies for a "sustainable planet," but when it comes down to it, they realize the strangling conditions placed upon them in the name of "climate change" are anything but sustainable. It's more than most can take. 

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What's $1000 to an uber-wealthy "public servant"?

When asked what she thought about the fact that many companies have announced wage hikes or $1000 holiday bonuses for their employees as a result of the President Donald Trump tax cut, wealthy, leftist Democrat Nancy Pelosi basically scoffed at the actions, calling them “crumbs”.

Forget the fact that Pelosi lavished praise on Barack Obama for his $40 payroll tax cut back in the day. She called it a “victory for all Americans” and attributed the accomplishment to “Obama’s leadership.”

But tax cuts in addition to wage hikes and bonuses? Nothing to see here, according to Pelosi. Then again, I imagine being a multi-millionaire who has never held a job outside of taxpayer-funded political positions qualifies Pelosi to think of these actions as nothing. After all, what’s $1000 to someone who never has to worry about making it to the next paycheck just to pay the electric bill? One thousand dollars wouldn’t pay for one of Pelosi’s shoes (though I bet one of her many maids could use a crumb like that), so what's the big deal about a measly grand? While Pelosi tells us pathetic masses that we can just eat our cake, she mocks real money that real people may really need, while maintaining the republicans are the greedy and uncaring ones.

Speaking of leftist hypocrisy, they’re going apes over Trump’s alleged “s-hole” comment about nearly demolished places like Haiti. (Which, if he really said it, is so harsh and unfair, because we all know how pleasant and delightful the conditions of third-world countries are). This has a few people asking if the left would have been less offended if Trump had used the word “deplorable.” Apparently so, since we never heard a peep from the left when their golden child Hillary described Trump supporters as such.

Somehow, though, they still expect us to see them as the party of love. Sure, okay. As my high school French teacher would say, donnez-moi a break.

An insane president? Okay, fine...

Just a year into President Donald Trump's administration, we have major tax reform, reduced regulations, lower illegal immigration, fewer criminal aliens, GDP growth of more than 3 percent (which President Barack Obama was unable to achieve in eight years in office), ISIS severely hampered (another thing Obama, who said ISIS was basically a reality we had to live with, could not achieve), confirmation of a Constitution-supporting Supreme Court justice and several federal judges, record stock market highs, expansion of the pro-life Mexico City policy, obliteration of the freedom-strangling HHS mandate, less crime, more jobs, less unemployment, removal from the disastrous Paris Accord, reduced wasteful money to the UN, the removal of the ObamaCare individual mandate/tax penalties, and a better standing for America on the global stage. And, in response to the threat by North Korean President Kim Jong-un that he would destroy us with his nuclear capabilities, our president promised him we would strike back bigger and better than Kim Jong-un could ever possibly imagine.

And what does President Trump get for these accomplishments and willingness to stand up to global bullies? The declaration by leftist intellectuals and establishment RINOs that he is insane and unfit for the presidency.

I assume that means higher taxes and unemployment, reduced national security, bowing in fear to global bullies, overtaking 1/6 of the national economy through government takeover of healthcare, unlimited and unabashed support for Planned Parenthood and late-term abortion, adoption of bogus and economically absurd 'climate change' policies, and an open border policy are all signs of the "sanity" that Obama possessed. 

If that's so, I'll take the "unfit, insane" president we have now, any time, every time. Keep up the good work, Mr. President, and thank you.

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