Anyone paying attention to events in Washington, DC and around the country has become acutely aware that thousands of people, and many elected officials, are very upset with the organization known as Planned Parenthood Federation of America—and its many nationwide affiliates.
A few weeks ago a friend sent me something he thought I would enjoy reading—something that had been published nearly 30 years ago by Ronald Reagan. I found it so moving, I wanted to share it with BreakPoint listeners.
Long before he won accolades as an American Idol judge, Steven Tyler was a bona fide rock star, with all that that implied.
Planned Parenthood has been taking some major hits in the last year—both to its image and to its ability to achieve its goals. In this commentary we will take a quick look at what is happening to Planned Parenthood and offer at least one reasonable explanation.
If you were to compare a dead body with a “brain dead” body, you would find that the dead body is pale, cold, stiff, and unresponsive.
You’ve probably seen TV commercials, billboards, and magazine articles encouraging you to give the “gift of life” through vital organ donation.
Move over Houdini! Planned Parenthood is without a doubt the most successful contortionist mankind has ever known.
Hormones in contraceptives linked to ‘divorce, poverty’
According to Wikipedia, “Dragon’s Breath” is a type of pyrotechnic shotgun round that produces a visual effect “similar to that of a short-ranged flamethrower.”
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Norman Mailer, the author to whom the creation of the word factoid is credited, explained that factoids are “facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper, creations which are not so much lies as a product to manipulate emotion in the Silent Majority.”
If I asked you who understood a country’s needs better, its residents and leaders or some foreign technocrat who had never been there, you might think that it was a trick question.