because stirring the pot is fun

Responding to the ongoing lionization of Margaret Sanger by the organization she founded to carry out her preferred policies, we get the following excerpt from Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg on NRO:
Sanger [ . . . ] brilliantly used the language of liberation to convince women they weren’t going along with a collectivist scheme but […]

why this self-identified libertarian is not a Libertarian voter

I make no bones about it, these days. I drift very heavily in among my conservative friends–I am culturally conservative, in most respects, and very conservative as regards the authority of the Scriptures, but I won’t deny that “conservative” these days seems most often to be deployed for one of three purposes:

to identify a […]

Pro-Life Activism: Florida Ultrasound Bill

Hillary Clinton has said, “Being pro-choice is trusting the individual to make the right decision for herself and her family…”
So why don’t pro-abortion types support giving women the information necessary to make an informed “right decision”? So much for trusting women.
The standard line from the pro-abortion crowd these days is “safe, legal and rare.” […]

Republicans and Evangelicals Have Babies, Democrats and Seculars Buy Small Dogs

Demographics may not be destiny, but they’re the next best thing. Since about 75-80% of children embrace the beliefs of their parents in adulthood, it’s reasonable to expect that those political and religious groups in America with the largest birth rates will benefit in the future. And since religious and party affiliation most strongly correlate […]