Politics and Faith in the Public Square: Preston Manning
Longtime politician and founder of two political parties Preston Manning joined Jonathon Van Maren to talk about his new book and faith in the public square.
Justice Anthony Kennedy Retires: Get Ready for Political Armageddon
By Jonathon Van Maren Justice Anthony Kennedy, the longstanding swing vote on the United States Supreme Court, has sent his resignation later to President Donald Trump. He was, as David French described, “the primary judicial guardian of abortion rights and was more responsible than any other justice for the relentless legal march of the sexual…
Picasso forced his mistress to abort and then immortalized her broken spirit in art
By Jonathon Van Maren June 27, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – The Tate Gallery label for Pablo Picasso’s 1905 portrait Girl in a Chemise paints a dreadful picture. “This waif-like girl is among Picasso’s cast of people from the margins of society,” it read. “A melancholic mood is conveyed with veils of paint…Her delicate pink flesh evokes the skin-colour…
Trudeau’s Bad Week: Groping allegations, Canada Summer Jobs lawsuits, and an Ambassador for Feminism
By Jonathon Van Maren It is safe to say that Justin Trudeau hasn’t had a very good year so far. From his costume-festooned India trip to his gender budget flop, Pierre’s son has done his best to remind Canadians that Stephen Harper’s 2015 attack ads warning that he just wasn’t ready might not have been…
Rates of assisted suicide skyrocket in Canada
By Jonathon Van Maren Euthanasia numbers are skyrocketing. In the first seven months of legal assisted suicide in Quebec, 262 people utilized the process to kill themselves. And now this, from the CBC: There were 1,523 medically assisted deaths in Canada in the last six-month reporting period — a nearly 30 per cent increase over the…
Canadian man arrested and charged with “hate crimes” against the LGBT community after leafleting at Pride parade
By Jonathon Van Maren Here’s how the CBC covered the arrest of a Canadian—Bill Whatcott—for “hate speech” against the LGBT community: An Alberta man has been charged after allegedly handing out “anti-gay material” at Toronto’s annual Pride Parade two years ago.Toronto police say they received complaints about the alleged incident in 2016. They say a…
Pro-choice Republican activists decide to shut down abortion lobby group because the GOP is too anti-abortion
By Jonathon Van Maren A couple of days ago, the New York Times ran on op-ed titled “Why We Are Leaving the GOP” by Susan Bevan and Susan Cullman, the leaders of the abortion lobby group Republican Majority for Choice—a column that’s been getting a lot of traction among progressives as evidence that Republicans have…
Another Supreme Court victory: The Pro-Life Trump Administration
By Jonathon Van Maren It has to be said: If Donald Trump had not been elected president of the United States, Neil Gorsuch would not be on the Supreme Court. And if Merrick Garland had been confirmed as a Supreme Court justice instead of Gorsuch, the pro-life movement would have suffered a devastating loss today,…
Democratic Congresswoman: We must ‘turn on…harass’ Trump officials at gas stations, restaurants, at home
By Jonathon Van Maren June 25, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – On Friday night, Trump Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was apparently kicked out of a Virginia restaurant because she works for Donald Trump. “Last night,” she tweeted on Saturday, “I was told by the owner of Red Hen in Lexington, VA to leave because I work…
Great news: US Supreme Court vacates lower court ruling against Arlene’s Flowers
By Jonathon Van Maren It looks like religious liberty may have just secured another important victory in the wake of Jack Phillips’ success at the US Supreme Court earlier this month. In a decision that Ryan T. Anderson called “great news,” the Court decided to vacate a Washington state ruling against florist Barronelle Stutzman, who…