Democratic members of the U.S. House have introduced a resolution condemning remarks made last week by Rep. Allen West, R-Fort Lauderdale.
Mississippians will decide today whether or not to approve a so-called “fetal personhood” amendment — a deeply divisive measure that would define life as beginning at the moment of conception.
Predictably, abortion was one of the leading foes at this year’s sixth annual Values Voter Summit, with presidential candidates and religious leaders receiving standing ovations for promising to overturn Roe v. Wade and for vilifying Planned Parenthood Federation of America. The weekend’s focus on Planned Parenthood and abortion rights is followed by a More…
Pretty much wherever you find efforts to tighten immigration laws in the United States, you find John Tanton–or more likely these days, one of the groups he founded.
The Federation for American Immigration Reform was in Arizona when that state wrote its famous senate bill to crack down on immigration. More…
It’s become rare lately to hear any anti-abortion argument without also hearing the words “eugenics,” “Margaret Sanger” and “genocide.” In the past few years, the grim metaphors have become even more targeted.
There’s Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, an anti-abortion rights group based in Los Angeles that considers every More…
In an eloquent address at the Capitol Rotunda sponsored by the U.S. Holocaust Museum, Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. troops in the Middle East and South Asia, honored the survivors of the Nazi death camps and the U.S. soldiers who helped liberate them 65 years ago. “We approach More…
There’s so much to say about President Obama’s historic speech in Cairo today. But for now, I want to focus on the aspects of it that conservatives insisted wouldn’t exist. Sean Hannity, for one, blasted the exercise yesterday as an “apology tour,” and while the facts of the More…
rss