How Todd Akin Shot Himself in the Foot on the Abortion Issue

Written by Gary North on August 22, 2012

“When you shoot from the hip, you risk blowing off an important appendage.” — North’s law of unrehearsed comments. Congressman Todd Akin takes a “no exceptions” position on abortion. Anyone who runs for office who holds this position had better know why. He never did. He still doesn’t. He is running for U.S. Senate in […]

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Girls Expelled for Pregnancy, But Not if They Get an Abortion

Written by Gary North on August 8, 2012

In Monroe, Louisiana, a tax-funded charter school has gone back to 1955. The ACLU demands that it come back to the future. The school expels pregnant girls. This is sexual discrimination, the ACLU says. Boys can’t get pregnant, so the school has violated a 1972 law, the ACLU says. “Teenage girls should not be penalized […]

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Senate Amendment to Restore Religious Liberty to Obamacare Fails by 2 Votes

Written by Gary North on March 7, 2012

Obamacare requires religious organizations to provide insurance that funds abortions. This is murder by government decree. The Senate voted to kill the Blunt amendment that would have restored the rights of conscience in this area. Catholic hospitals are protesting. Sadly, Methodist and Presbyterian hospitals aren’t. As explained here, the amendment would have provided comprehensive conscience […]

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25 Signs of Creeping Nazification in the U.S.

Written by Gary North on February 16, 2012

It creeps up, year after year. Charlotte Twight wrote a book on this process almost 40 years ago. It has accelerated. This article lists 25 indicators that the corporate state today is like Germany in 1933. The differences are a matter of degree, the author says. I don’t think we are anywhere close to Germany […]

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