By Jonathon Van Maren I’m not quite as optimistic as many people seem to be about the midterm elections today, although I may be as wrong as I was about Donald Trump’s ability to get elected president. The nonstop and frenzied political carousel that America seems to be trapped on is sometimes exhausting to the…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Knighted in 2016 for “services to philosophy, teaching, and public education,” there is perhaps no academic so articulate and so fierce in his defence of Western civilization as Sir Roger Scruton. A graduate of Cambridge, anti-Communist Cold Warrior, professor in the Humanities Research Institute at Buckingham University, and author of over…
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By Jonathon Van Maren As the devastating results of the Republic of Ireland’s abortion referendum came in on May 25, abortion activists erupted into wild celebration. Several of them waved a sign declaring, ominously and triumphantly, that “The North Is Next.” Many people forget that while abortion has become legal in the Republic of Ireland,…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Following a brutal attack by Islamic State gunmen on a bus full of Egyptian Coptic Christians on two buses near a monastery in Minya on Friday that resulted in seven deaths and at least seven other casualties (some of them children), Egypt’s interior ministry reported yesterday that nineteen Islamist militants connected…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Abortion activists in Scandinavia are outraged at a recent suggestion by Norway’s leader that abortion restrictions should be tightened in a few specific circumstances. Currently in Norway, abortion is legal on demand up until the twelfth week of pregnancy, by application until eighteen weeks, and after that in so-called “special circumstances”…
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By Jonathon Van Maren I don’t remember any point, in my mere fifteen or so years of political awareness, ever hearing so many discussions about “nationalism.” To some, it seems, the word is a mere synonym for “patriotism,” and Donald Trump’s use of the world is simply one more indication of his commitment to putting…
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By Jonathon Van Maren CANADA, November 2, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – If you needed any evidence that Canada’s abortion activists are incapable of having a mature, informed discussion and prefer to simply shut down any inconvenient facts by any means possible, look no further than the almost farcical response to a campaign by Canadian lobby group We…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Abortion—A procedure very similar to brushing your teeth, by which an irritant is removed, making you feel happy. Abortion Clinic—A wonderful health care facility in which medical professionals can dispense with the results of irresponsible sex by vacuuming out the uterus. Abortionist—A feticide technician unburdened by the technicalities of the Hippocratic…
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By Jonathon Van Maren On October 4, 2018, the Verona city council voted 21 to 6 to declare the hometown of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to be “a city in favour of life.” Included in Motion 434 was an initiative to give public funds to pro-life organizations, working municipally to encourage women facing crisis pregnancies…
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By Jonathon Van Maren October 31, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Several years ago, my wife and I spent some time in Africa for our honeymoon. One night after she’d gone to sleep in the tent, our safari guide and I stayed up chatting. He was about my age, and was telling me what it was like…
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