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^{Wesley J. Smith
October 18, 2022
Human Exceptionalism}

Don’t Let Doctors Kill Sick Patients for Their Organs

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 18, 2022
Human Exceptionalism}

Some lines should never be crossed. Allowing doctors to kill patients during organ harvesting wouldn’t only be an acute threat to the sanctity of life, but I can think of no better way to sow mistrust in our health care system generally—and the lifesaving field of organ transplant medicine specifically. Read More ›

^{Scott S. Powell
October 18, 2022
Citizen Leadership}

China’s Attempt to Warp the 2022 Midterm Election

_{Scott S. Powell
October 18, 2022
Citizen Leadership}

The recent arrest of Eugene Yu, the founder and CEO of election software company, Konnech, Inc. for betraying Los Angeles, the largest metropolitan area in America, charged with transferring election poll worker information to China is just the tip of the iceberg of CCP subversion efforts to destroy the United States. Read More ›

^{Debra J. Saunders
October 13, 2022
Homelessness}

Uncle Sam Enabling Homelessness, Not Ending It

_{Debra J. Saunders
October 13, 2022
Homelessness}

Uncle Sam shouldn’t say: Here’s a bed or a room, now do whatever you want. Because that’s not really working for them. Read More ›

Hands of Homelessness Poor man holding the paper house hope to have family home and warm home

^{Discovery Institute
October 12, 2022
Homelessness}

Discovery Institute Releases National Report on Homelessness

_{Discovery Institute
October 12, 2022
Homelessness}

The problems linked to homelessness, including substance abuse, mental illness, and crime, are increasing in America despite untold sums of government money spent to address this complex problem. Read More ›

Street signs for Rue D' Orleans and Rue Bourbon in New Orleans, Louisiana

^{Marvin Olasky
October 10, 2022
Homelessness}

Sunday Morning, New Orleans

_{Marvin Olasky
October 10, 2022
Homelessness}

What causes homelessness? Broken relationships, mental illness, and addiction are leading indicators, but some become ill from being on the streets. Societal errors have played a part alongside individual decisions. The expressways of New Orleans, like their counterparts in other cities, eliminated hundreds of homes and destroyed many small businesses. Read More ›

Barcelona. Monument to Christopher Columbus.

^{Scott S. Powell
October 10, 2022
Citizen Leadership}

Why the Woke Perspective on Columbus Day Is Wrong

_{Scott S. Powell
October 10, 2022
Citizen Leadership}

Seen from the big picture, Columbus Day is worth keeping and honoring because it opened the possibility of founding a new nation unencumbered by past corruption and for the simple reason that it celebrates beliefs and qualities of character that would be foundational to America. Read More ›

^{Marvin Olasky
October 8, 2022
Discovery Institute}

On Thomas Kidd’s Thomas Jefferson

_{Marvin Olasky
October 8, 2022
Discovery Institute}

Thomas Kidd’s excellent and tightly-written Thomas Jefferson (Yale University Press, 2022) notes that our third president “touted frugality” in government, but his personal life was different. (As John Adams put it, “Jefferson has a habit as well as a disposition to expensive Living…. He could not Subdue his Pride and Vanity.”) This becomes poignant in relation to the slaves Jefferson owned. Kidd notes that Read More ›

^{Spencer Pauley
October 5, 2022
Economics}

Reporter Denied Entry to Controversial Seattle Homeless Shelter

_{Spencer Pauley
October 5, 2022
Economics}

When one journalist attempted to join a media tour of a homeless shelter in South Downtown Seattle, he was barred from entry, which has raised concerns of government restriction of the press. Read More ›

^{Scott S. Powell and Ann McLean
October 3, 2022
Citizen Leadership}

To See How Marxists Plan To Destroy America, Look At Their War On Virginia’s History

_{Scott S. Powell and Ann McLean
October 3, 2022
Citizen Leadership}

The United States is under a cultural and ideological attack that threatens its continuity and survival more than at any previous time in the 239-year history of the nation. And since the leaders of this attack think strategically, it should come as no surprise that Virginia would be in the crosshairs of a new kind of battle to transform America. Read More ›

Stethoscope on medical billing statement on table, all text is anonymous

^{Wesley J. Smith
October 2, 2022
Human Exceptionalism}

Why We Will Never Control Medical Costs

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 2, 2022
Human Exceptionalism}

The purposes of medicine are expanding rapidly beyond treating actual illnesses/injuries and promoting wellness, to also facilitating life fulfillment and making personal dreams come true. Read More ›