Politics

Authored by Ben Tansoborn,

Either our minds have softened in the United States, or our hearts have hardened way beyond the callous stage.  Or, likely both!

Jonathan Tobin wonders if it’s too late to thin the Republican field and stop Trump:

We will eventually get down to two or three Republican candidates. But the only way Republicans can be sure that a newly minted conservative that even now still spouts positions on foreign policy and entitlements that sound like recycled Obama talking points, will be if that happens in the next few days.

Presstitutes At Work

Paul Craig Roberts

This morning I was stuck in front of a Fox “News” broadcast for a short period and then with a NPR news program. It was enough to convince me that Nazi propaganda during Hitler’s Third Reich was very mild compared to the constant stream of dangerous lies that are pumped out constantly by the American media.

The New York Times, Washington Post, and a couple of think-tank types were represented on NPR. They delivered the most crude propaganda imaginable and questioned no US government statement.

Submitted by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com,

Years ago back in my days at the academy and in the military, I used to hear this phrase “freedom isn’t free” over and over again.

It was almost a sort of motto for a lot of military units– a self-motivating expression that freedom came at a price, and it was our solemn responsibility to pay that price.

It’s a true statement. Freedom is NOT free.

The Catholic Church has softened its stance on contraception when faced with the threat imposed by the Zika virus. Pope Francis has given his blessings to the use of artificial contraception when it comes to the Zika virus and the damage it could cause an unborn fetus. The pope says that there is a clear moral difference between aborting a fetus and preventing a pregnancy, but has not gone as far as softening his stance on abortion of unwanted Zika-infected pregnancies. Pope Francis says that abortion “is an evil in and of itself, but it is not a religious evil at its root, no?