A Flag Planted

Penna Dexter A couple of weeks ago, Senator Lindsey Graham introduced a bill restricting abortion to the first 15 weeks of pregnancy. This action drew mixed reactions from pro-lifers. In an op-ed for Politico, Rich Lowry began by declaring: “Boy, did Lindsey Graham step in it.” Mr. Lowry titled his piece: “In Defense of Lindsey Graham.”  In it, he explains…

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Restoring Regular Order

Penna Dexter Last week the Republican party unveiled its legislative priorities. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy released the “Commitment to America,” a four-pillar agenda for the GOP should it retake the House. It’s a sort of Republican platform for the midterm elections presented by the man who will likely be Speaker if the House flips to the Republicans. The plan…

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Green Leap Forward

Penna Dexter In their effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Western governments have set aggressive deadlines. By 2030, the European Union wants a 55-percent reduction and the Biden administration promises a 50-52-percent drop in net greenhouse gas emissions economy-wide. The trouble is that fossil fuels and nuclear power currently provide 80 percent of the world’s energy needs and we are far…

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Exporting Gender “Affirmation”

Penna Dexter Under the current administration, the United States is becoming an exporter of the Gender Identity Revolution.  Last June, President Biden issued an executive order which instructs agencies of the US government to take steps to stop “conversion therapy,” which mostly involves counseling or  psychotherapy to reveal underlying issues that may contribute to someone’s distress with their biological gender….

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Baseball’s Trans Activism

Penna Dexter In 2000, certain professional baseball teams began holding LGBT-themed “Pride Nights” which have promoted and financially supported LGBT non-profits. Over the past twenty years, 29 of the 30 Major League Baseball teams have hosted such events, with many doing so every year. The one holdout — the Texas Rangers — has refused to give in to shakedown efforts…

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Listen to Mom

Penna Dexter In her new book, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, British journalist Louise Perry employs facts, figures, human nature, and common sense to argue that the sexual revolution, and the “free sexual playing field” it gave rise to, have been terrible for women. Ms. Perry is not a religious conservative. She states: “It’s precisely because I’m a feminist…

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Regretting Sexual Freedom

Penna Dexter A colleague sent me an essay by writer and podcaster Bridget Phetasy. Its title is “I regret my promiscuity”. Her story moved me to tears, beginning with her statement “…if I’m honest with myself, of the dozens of men I’ve been with (at least the ones I remember), I can only think of a handful I don’t regret.” Bridget Phetasy wrote…

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“Marital Clash”

Penna Dexter As Congress considers the deceptively-named Respect for Marriage Act, we must ask ourselves whether our laws and policies should be based upon declared identity or on biological sex. Why not enshrine demands for transgender affirmation and homosexual marriage into law? We can argue the biology: The words man and woman do, in fact, mean something. In his article…

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Bystander Effect

Penna Dexter As I drove around town doing errands on May 24, radio news reports and interruptions to regular programming alerted me to the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. After about the fourth or fifth report stating the situation was “ongoing” I began to wonder why. Surely we’d be hearing the results of a police confrontation with…

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AP’s Woke Stylebook

Penna Dexter In a recent Gallup poll, just 16 percent of those surveyed said they “have a great deal [or] quite a lot of confidence in newspapers” — an all-time low. No big shock here. The Left is fomenting a wholesale rejection of truth and accuracy with the full cooperation of the legacy media. The Daily Signal’s Jared Stepman reports…

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Parental Wake-Up Call

Penna Dexter A blogger named Robyn Openshaw — a.k.a. GreenSmoothieGirl — wrote a post that will tug at the heartstrings of any parent who has been shocked when made aware of their child’s rejection of carefully-taught, seemingly-traditional values. She writes: “I wish I had figured it out sooner: the worst mistake we ever made was delegating the education of our…

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