Culture

Planned Parenthood sex-ed poster

Planned Parenthood is the poster child for radical child abuse.

By Justin Katz | September 29, 2021 |

Providence middle school teacher Ramona Bessinger shared on her Facebook page a Planned Parenthood poster that she was “encouraged to post” in her classroom last school year.  Here’s the main body of the text: Beyond the Birds and the Bees is a sexuality education program for high schoolers that is science-based, sex-positive, and affirming to…

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The snobbery and conformity of our educated class

By Justin Katz | September 27, 2021 |

Via Instapundit, when did Matthew Yglesias become a voice of sanity? He writes: … if all the people with degrees are on the same side of certain big moral and political questions, it’s going to be very hard for them to draw the line between actual expert knowledge and beliefs they happen to hold. Perhaps the…

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We’re going to be addressing the problems cause by COVID lockdowns for decades.

By Justin Katz | September 23, 2021 |

Sometimes I wonder how many of the most-aggressive anti-COVID crusaders have children.  It would be interesting to see a study of attitudes toward our response to the pandemic and having children in the home.  As somebody with children spanning from early grades into college, I can testify that things have become much, much harder. Stories…

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Are childless climate alarmists an example of evolution in action?

By Justin Katz | September 21, 2021 |

From Peter Malbin on Newsmax: A study published in the British medical journal The Lancet found that 39% of young adults reported feeling uncertain about having children, given the state of the environment and the added carbon footprint brought by having children. The Lancet polled about 10,000 older teenagers and young adults to ascertain how climate…

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When profiling claims another victim.

By Justin Katz | September 16, 2021 |

Michael Morse tells a cute story about how he used his one phone call from prison to explain to his future wife why he had missed their date.  Before going on read how he tells it and come back.  Here’s the summary with the key details for this post. Morse was racially profiled as some…

The North Tower collapses

A Lingering Lesson from 9/11: Think for Yourself.

By Justin Katz | September 11, 2021 |

Even two decades on, September 11 continues to teach us that we can never be complacent.

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The echoes of Communist China in Western universities are a common sound.

By Justin Katz | September 4, 2021 |

This sure does sound familiar: The University of Nottingham, in central England, confirmed on Aug. 25 that it had declined to give official recognition to Fr. David Palmer, a priest of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. “Our concern was not in relation to Fr. David’s views themselves, but the manner in which…

Decapitated Jesus statue

Bishop Barron is right about the very notion of an “atheist chaplain.”

By Justin Katz | September 2, 2021 |

Joe Bukuras summarizes the controversy for the Catholic News Agency (paragraphs reordered): Last week the New York Times announced that Greg Epstein, an atheist and humanist chaplain at Harvard University, was unanimously elected as the “chief chaplain” of the Harvard Chaplains, the association of more than 40 chaplains serving Harvard students of various religious denominations. ……

Blurred pedestrians

We need more reminders of each other’s humanity.

By Justin Katz | August 27, 2021 |

Michael Morse offers a gentle suggestion to his fellow emergency and healthcare professionals: It doesn’t matter how whoever it is ended up in our care. What matters is that we care for them. Nowhere in any literature pertaining to anybody in the health care hierarchy does judgement get mentioned. Not in EMS manuals, nursing curriculum…

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Nicole Solas’s APRAs are bearing fruit.

By Justin Katz | August 25, 2021 |

Why would your “equity auditor” have to be “fluent in critical race theory” if CRT isn’t in the schools? On Twitter.