By Jonathon Van Maren So, a number of people have gotten quite prickly about my recent article on the public disrobing of female Muslim sunbathers in the name of “good morals” on French beaches by armed government employees. I’ve promised to respond to the objections, so here goes. Objection One: The West has a duty…
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By Jonathon Van Maren The Guardian has published what I actually found to be a rather horrifying set of pictures in which armed police officers approach a sunbathing Muslim woman wearing a “burkini” on a beach in Nice, France. She is wearing a tunic, leggings, and a headscarf. They then appear to force her to…
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By Jonathon Van Maren If there’s one place that abortion activists hate more than a maternity ward, it must be pro-life Ireland. They simply cannot countenance the fact that there is a Western country, in the current year, that recognizes the right of human beings developing in the womb to live and grow in safety.…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Being of Dutch descent, I grew up hearing stories from my grandparents about World War II. My grandmother watched the flames and the smoke of Rotterdam’s rubble sparking upwards after the Luftwaffe offloaded its explosive cargo over the city. One of my great-uncles was sent to a labor camp in Germany,…
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By Jonathon Van Maren The province of Ontario continues to highlight what happens when you elect a LGBTQ activist to the highest office: post-modernism gets replaced with post-reality. From the National Post: Ontario is considering more changes to the collection and display of gender information on government documents, not long after announcing gender-neutral driver’s licences…
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By Jonathon Van Maren A few weeks ago, Rex Murphy of the National Post responded to the terrorist attack in Nice, France, with his characteristic eloquence and incisive analysis. San Bernardino, Paris, Orlando, London, Cologne, Ottawa, Nice—is it possible, he asked that we were all becoming immune to the horror of such attacks? That once…
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By Jonathon Van Maren It may be one of the most frequently asked questions in conservative circles in this 2016 election cycle: Who is the alt-right? Who are these more-or-less previously unheard of Internet firebrands who skitter from Twitter to Internet comment sections throwing rhetorical Molotov cocktails, generating memes celebrating the orange Donald Trump as…
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By Jonathon Van Maren As the unnatural disaster that is the 2016 election period proceeds, the media is starting to get a bit panicky about the very real possibility that Donald J. Trump will be the next president of the United States. This has forced them to start asking questions they generally avoid like vampires…
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By Jonathon Van Maren As I mentioned in a previous culture update, the transgender ideologues have destroyed professional sports. This time, it’s cycling. From the National Post: A Canadian cyclist who transitioned from man to woman — then had to prove to sporting officials she was sufficiently female — has won a key battle in…
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By Jonathon Van Maren The Democrats are holding their convention this week in Philadelphia, the City of Kermit Gosnell. For a pro-life activist who is not a fan of Donald Trump, it feels like the Democrats staged the entire event specifically to assure pro-lifers that voting against Hillary Clinton is one of the most important…
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