Penna Dexter I was delighted recently by an interview the Wall Street Journal published with the husband-wife team behind the long-loved Babar the Elephant children’s books. Laurent de Brunhoff is 92 and says Babar’s Guide to Paris, published this year, is his last. As a kid, I loved the Babar books. Babar’s character was created by Jean de Brunhoff in…
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Penna Dexter The Left is attempting to force California pro-life pregnancy centers to promote abortion services they don’t offer and find immoral. These centers exist to help women facing unplanned pregnancies understand they have life-affirming alternatives to abortion. Crisis pregnancy centers help young women who are often afraid and sometimes facing outside pressure to abort. Most of these centers are…
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Penna Dexter There’s a provision in both the House and the Senate tax reform plans that would eliminate one area of fundamental unfairness in our federal tax system. Currently, taxpayers who itemize deductions on their federal tax forms are allowed to deduct taxes paid to state and local governments from their taxable income. Sounds great, but it’s not fair. Right…
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Penna Dexter Currently, the House is considering the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. In order for tax cutting to work, we must boost economic growth. The president believes we can get the economy growing consistently at 3 percent per year by cutting the corporate tax rate. Opponents of such a cut complain that it would starve the government. They ignore the…
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Penna Dexter The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is revamping its strategic plan for the years ahead. It is taking steps to reverse the pro-abortion emphasis the previous administration placed on its work. Now the agency is emphasizing the sanctity of human life – from beginning to end. Here’s a quote from the new document: “HHS accomplishes its…
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Penna Dexter A new report reveals that founders of the feminist movement unwittingly sowed the seeds for the current demand for transgender rights. The report, entitled Sex, Gender, and the Origin of the Culture Wars, was produced by Scott Yenor, Professor of political science at Boise State University. It gets to the root of the transgender movement. Professor Yenor describes…
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Penna Dexter The Harvey Weinstein story provides fresh evidence that Hollywood’s feminist values do not make a better world for women. The open secret that Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been getting away with harassing and assaulting, even raping women for three decades has now been exposed. This is a tale of intimidation of young women, payoffs, a conspiracy of…
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Penna Dexter There’s not an American who doesn’t decry the shocking Las Vegas murders. But we, as a nation, turn our backs on the torture of unborn babies. In recent days, the House of Representatives voted to curtail late-term abortions by passing the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. This law makes it a crime to perform most abortions after the…
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Penna Dexter The spectacles created on football fields as players kneel, sit or raise fists during the national anthem are the latest evidence of the Left’s success in undermining institutions and traditions that Americans once held dear. These grown men are unwitting pawns of the progressive left in pursuit of its anti-American agenda. The Left employs many tactics to undermine…
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Penna Dexter New national polling by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy shows that fathers have tremendous influence — more influence than mothers — over whether or not their daughters engage in premarital sex. This is an organization that assumes teens will have uncommitted sex and is all about promoting birth control to teens. Kudos to them…
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Penna Dexter U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy De Vos announced she’ll roll back an Obama-era guidance document that weakened due process rights of those accused of sexual assault on college campuses. Under this guidance, school, not law enforcement authorities, are tasked with determining an accused student’s guilt and punishment. Colleges and universities refusing to set up tribunals for this purpose…
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