As we count down to an impending mid-term bloodbath for the Democrats, get ready for wall-to-wall coverage of the 6 January show trials. Trying to drum up a silly protest that descended into a riot is all the Dems have got. On every normal measure, they’re toast. The economy
Carolyn Moynihan mercatornet.com Carolyn Moynihan is the former deputy editor of MercatorNet Warning Long read: 1880 words Fifty years ago, United States Supreme Court judges invented a right to abortion for all America after feminists (and not a few men) insisted that, for women to stand as equal citizens
As I’ve said often enough, I read the likes of the Guardian so that you don’t have to. Ditto, Jacobin. But there’s plenty of reason to listen to and read people who are on almost the complete opposite political pole to your own. As Mill said, if
Helen M. Alvaré mercatornet.com Helen M. Alvaré Helen Alvaré is the Robert A. Levy Endowed Chair in Law and Liberty at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia, where she teaches and writes in the areas of family law, and law and religion. Today, nearly 50
As you will likely know, Johnny Depp won his lawsuit against Amber Heard. Unsurprisingly, the mainstream media have found a way to somehow turn this into a massive defeat for women everywhere. And now, after seven weeks and dozens of witnesses, the jury in the Johnny Depp v Amber Heard
Veronika Winkels mercatornet.com Veronika Winkels is married with four young children. She majored in History and History & Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne before becoming a freelance writer, published poet, and sometimes-printmaker. Lately she spends more of her time child-wrangling. She is the founding Editor of
Michael Ippolito newsbusters.org Michael Ippolito is a senior politics major at the Catholic University of America studying politics and history from New Jersey. Michael Ippolito is the president of his college republican chapter and former treasurer of his Young Americans For Freedom chapter. Michael enjoys reading, lifting weights, and
“So what do you think? Women. A mistake? Or did he do it to us on purpose?” The Witches of Eastwick Was universal suffrage a mistake, after all? Were all those stuffy chaps, brandishing their cigars from the armchairs of their clubs, right when they huffed and said that women
Whatever its faults, Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead is a dazzling tapestry of character study. Rand sketches her characters with acid wit and little sympathy. One of her few sympathetic characters, at least initially, is the innocently sincere Catherine Halsey. But even she ends up as a nasty harridan — a
One of the most powerful tools of the Communists was denunciation. Survivors describe the process as “terrifying”. Imagine: mobs of your neighbours, co-workers, even friends and family, screaming abuse, spitting on you, beating you. Many were killed by the unhinged mobs. Whole populations lived in terror of denunciation: in communist
Kimberly Ells mercatornet.com Kimberly Ells is the author of The Invincible Family: Why the Global Campaign to Crush Motherhood and Fatherhood Can’t Win and is a policy advisor for Family Watch International. With the decades-long focus on “women’s right to abortion” now coming to a climax as
The implications of the leaking of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft majority opinion for the US Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade cannot be overstated. Of all US institutions, the Supreme Court is supposed to be the one above the scrum of politics. The leak – the first leak of
If we are to believe the trans lobby, the idea that people regret “transitioning”, especially when they were children, is just a “transphobic myth”. But then, if were to believe these activists, biological men can give birth. Just ignore all those people who say they really do regret it. Hundreds
Get ready for exploding heads and trigger-necks the likes of which we’ve never seen before. You thought land-whales of indeterminate gender bellowing at the sky in 2017 was epic? Grab your popcorn and hold on to your seats, folks: it’s gonna be a crazy, violent ride. The Supreme
As Orwell wrote, in The Principles of Newspeak, the purpose of the language so called was “to make all other modes of thought impossible”. As Orwell had earlier explained, in Politics and the English Language, the relationship of language and thought is a mutual feedback loop. Thoughts shape language, and
