A bridgehead is defined as “a strong position secured by an army inside enemy territory from which to advance or attack.” In today’s culture wars, a bridgehead of truth and common sense is exactly what we need. As Ronald Reagan once said, “When you’re outnumbered and surrounded and someone yells ‘charge,’ any way you’re facing…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Peter Bowal, a law professor at the University of Calgary, has a phenomenal column in the Calgary Herald this week, delivering a much-needed autopsy on the cooling corpse of Rachel Notley’s NDP government. Notley, he points out, was precisely the opposite of what she claimed: She was narrow-minded, prejudiced against many…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Earlier this week, the Daily Mail published a nauseating and stunning op-ed by a mother who is speaking out about what is going on at schools in the United Kingdom. Suzanne Glover, which is a pseudonym for safety reasons due to the level of harassment faced by mothers who dare to speak out against…
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By Jonathon Van Maren More bad news for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals may just indicate sunny ways for the rest of us come autumn. From John Ivison in the National Post: A majority in a poll conducted by Ipsos believe the country is on the wrong track, while the government’s approval rating has fallen 20 points…
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By Jonathon Van Maren It is difficult to get surprised by the mainstream media’s utter ignorance of religion, but last week I spotted a headline that almost seemed to be an intentional parody of that fact. It was an Associated Press headlineby Nicole Winfield and Colleen Barry, on an article intended to helpfully give context…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Nobody is ever surprised to hear that a celebrity has said something crazy, but Academy Award–winning actress Charlize Theron’s latest announcement manages very effectively to upstage the regular torrent of progressive platitudes emanating from hedonistic Hollywood. She has now told the media that her seven-year-old son Jackson, adopted as a baby…
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By Jonathon Van Maren It was snowing lightly as we wound our way through the rolling hills, past snug-looking farms with golden, glowing windows that appeared warm and inviting amid the white gusts. It had been balmy and bright for my presentations and lectures in the Netherlands, and it was sunny springtime in Salzburg, where…
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Earlier this month, the Christian Post reported on a conference where a group of doctors and experts explained how the transgender ideology has thoroughly permeated the medical field—and how young children are being used as guinea pigs in an experiment that we have no solid medical evidence for. Take just a moment to read through…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Earlier this year, I noted that transgender activists were going to use data on the suicide rate in the transgender community to go after schools they consider insufficiently supportive of their ideological agenda, despite the fact that there is no evidence that physical transition actually reduces suicidal ideation. As it turns…
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By Jonathon Van Maren I was stopped in my tracks today by a photo I had never seen. As a full-time pro-life activist, sometimes I think I have seen all the abortion victim photos there are. But I had never seen this one before, and the awful power of the photo grabbed me by the…
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