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Totally Squirrelly!
By Judie Brown Last year we wrote about Peanut the squirrel and the public outcry that ensued when this animal was euthanized. Thinking the story had run its course, we moved on. But we really discounted the furor that continues to be ginned up over this little critter. A recent article explained that Mark Longo, Peanut’s owner, has filed a lawsuit arguing that Peanut was wrongly put to death....
Pillaging Truth
By Judie Brown To pillage is to plunder ruthlessly, as in destroying truth with deadly fiction. And when it comes to the truth, these days it seems that the Politico website is at the head of the class. Whether writing about mail-order abortion pills or the latest...
The Middle Way
By Judie Brown The upcoming Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization has many pro-life people all atwitter. Leaked information aside, there are so many ways the decision might go that it is hard to put your best guess forward. Yet in a recent...
Venom of Disdain
By Judie Brown Venom, a toxin or poison that can kill or maim, can be contracted from a snake bite. But C.S. Lewis reminds us that there are other ways to be poisoned, including the “evil enchantment of worldliness.” Indeed, when anyone properly considers the disdain...
America’s National Cancer
By Judie Brown Human beings are gifted with a conscience. Writing about this human asset, St. John Paul II taught in his encyclical Veritatis Splendor (The Splendor of Truth): “Although each individual has a right to be respected in his own journey in search of the...
Does Abortion Reduce Welfare Costs?
By Brian Clowes, PhD Supporters of abortion tend to lack foresight and misunderstand human nature. These defects inevitably lead to many cases of the “law of unintended consequences.” One example of this lack of foresight is the claim that when the government pays for...
Minimizing Evil
By Judie Brown America has been confronted with a great deal of evil, especially in recent days, and the national yawn is audible. Even in the case of the aborted babies’ bodies found and then buried, there is no interest in digging to the bottom of this horrific...