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In my old notes, I see a 2003 interview with an epidemiologist. “When technology for the pre-natal determination of sex spreads to cultures that put a premium on male children,” she told me, “it creates a potential for a targeted weeding out of female fetuses. This is especially true in places with easy access to safe and cost-free abortion services.”
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Democrats have perfected Saul Alinsky's Rule for Radicals: "Pick the target. Freeze it. Personalize it. Polarize it." It's called the politics of personal destruction - and today, it's all the Dems and their media lapdogs have left.
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In the run-up to Earth Day on April 22nd-the birthday of Vladimir Lenin, the Soviet Union's first dictator-Brian Sussman, author of the bestselling "Climategate", has a new book, "Eco-Tyranny: How the Left's Green Agenda Will Dismantle America" ($25.95, WND Books). If you read no other book about the relationship between environmentalism and communism this year, you must read this one.
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Forty years after his death, Saul Alinsky — the father of the community-organizing model that inspired both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton — is more politically relevant than ever.
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In stark contrast to the Left’s timidity in the face of actual authoritarian regimes such as China and Russia, the liberal media’s treatment of Hungary has aggressively crossed the line. Paul Krugman of the New York Times sounded the alarm after Hungary’s conservative Fidesz-KDNP alliance won 68 percent of the seats in Parliament in the 2010 elections.
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The women’s movement didn’t start in the 1960s, when protesters set their bras on fire in New York’s Central Park. It’s taking nothing away from them to say that by the time they struck a match, Simone de Beauvoir’s “second sex” was already burning with a bright flame.
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All it took was an ill-advised quip from Rush Limbaugh to turn the national debate about ObamaCare from concerns about religious freedom to one about an imaginary Republican war on women. But the nation's Roman Catholic bishops are trying to refocus Americans on the threats to their religious liberty with a "Fortnight for Freedom" program planned for July in which they hope to get people discussing the ways in which the government is seeking to infringe on their rights to worship. Though predictably liberals are branding this as an effort to help Republicans, this is exactly the sort of project in which all faiths ought to participate.
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Although time puts distance between historical events and subsequent generations’ memory of them, some withstand the test of time. The April 14, 1912 loss of the ocean liner “Titanic” after colliding with an iceberg, five generations later is probably remembered by more people than who heard about it at the time. While not representative of the greatest loss of life at sea, Titanic still captures our imagination as evidenced by its countless media portrayals. But as we mark the 100th anniversary of the most well known maritime tragedy in history, one wonders to what extent fate made the event’s final outcome unavoidable.
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In Senator Jim DeMint’s new book, Now or Never, he boldly states, “The differences between the Democratic and Republican Parties are irreconcilable: there can be no compromise between collectivism and freedom.” How refreshing that someone in the U.S. Senate has the courage to speak the truth.
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Needless to say, Orban’s centre-right government became anathema to the Socialist International. Vitriolic correspondence inundated cyberspace as professional and amateur calumniators vied with one another in an attempt to nullify the first election that didn’t go the Hungarian Left’s way in the 21st century. The dogs barked, the caravan moved on.
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