I’ve noted several times on this blog that one interesting element of the current political realignment underway in the United States is the fact that the longstanding (albeit uneasy) coalition between Big Business and social conservatives that made up the Republican base has collapsed, and we are still not entirely aware of what the ramifications…
By Jonathon Van Maren Consider this for a moment: Every single Democrat running for president in 2020 voted against doctors being required to grant care to children born alive after botched abortions. These are not babies being aborted, which is horrifying enough. These are babies that survived the first attempt on their lives, and are…
By Jonathon Van Maren Over the weekend, I noted the weird characterization of Chick-Fil-A by a columnist in the New Yorker as “creepy” because of its “pervasive Christian traditionalism.” This is how societies polarize and tear apart: When there is no longer any common ground to meet on, and the “other,” whoever that might be,…
By Jonathon Van Maren Just as faith groups of every stripe here in Canada are beginning to realize that the Trudeau Liberals—and the Left in general—are overtly hostile to many of their values after the government demanded that organizations sign an “attestation” agreeing to a laundry list of progressive ideologies in order to access the…
By Jonathon Van Maren The Democrats and the media have been triumphantly announcing President Trump’s dismal polling numbers of late, but their celebrations have come a bit soon. The media, which seems to have bounced back rather well from their utter failure during the 2016 election, is still distrusted by the majority of the public.…