By Brian Myers
The latest issue of People magazine has the Duggar family featured in its cover story. The Duggars, as you probably already know, are a large family also featured in a reality television show with Mom (Michelle), Dad (Jim Bob), and their now 19 children. The aforementioned magazine cover has a picture of Michelle and Jim [...]
By Mary Selby
I remember the nurse practitioner saying, “I have a legal obligation to tell you that you can end this pregnancy.” In spite of being overwhelmed by the timing of this pregnancy, this was the last thing I would do or needed to hear. It was offensive that she had the legal [...]
By Jill Romines
As I sit and reflect on the events of the last year in terms of the pro-life movement, I have to admit I can get discouraged. Although it certainly did not come as a great surprise, almost immediately our president began to take some of the pro-choice steps we feared he would. First [...]
By JP Murie
I hadn’t allowed myself to think of it as a baby. When I came to terms with the reality that there was a person inside of me, I wondered, “How can I destroy a life?” I just knew I couldn’t. [...]
By Shane Vander Hart
Yesterday I sat down with Christian Fong. He is the son of a Chinese immigrant and Nebraska farm girl, and as his website claims is a “product of the American dream.” He graduated high school at 16. He earned his B.S. from Creighton at 19. He also holds an M.B.A. from Dartmouth College.
By Shane Vander Hart
I had the opportunity to sit down with Representative Chris Rants (R-Sioux City) over a diet coke at Legends in Pleasant Hill. Representative Rants first elected to represent Iowa House District 54 (Sioux City and Sergeant Bluff) in 1992 and still serves his district today in that capcity In 2003 was elected Speaker [...]
By Jill Romines
Honestly, I think that is probably the term I dislike the most when referring to politics. For me it rates right up there with the term common ground. I’m not sure how you feel, but to me it seems that a lot of times we could just translate these words as “compromise”. Last year, [...]
By Shane Vander Hart
Well we are getting a peak at how much Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s health care bill will cost taxpayers.
$1.2 Trillion – $1,200,000,000,000
Well it’s got to have a big price tag as big as the bill is – 1900 pages. AP reports:
The health care bill headed for a vote in the House this week costs $1.2 [...]
By Shane Vander Hart
Recently I had the opportunity to talk at length with Representative Rod Roberts (R-Carroll) who is one of the seven Republicans competing for the GOP nomination to run against Governor Chet Culver. Representative Roberts has served in the Iowa House of Representatives since January 2001. He also serves as the Assistant House Minority [...]
By Shane Vander Hart
John Piper contrasting abortion and Minnesota laws on cruelty to animals brings up a great point:
In the “Minnesota Cruelty to Animals Statutes . . . Police Regulations,” Statute 343.21 subdivision 1 says, “No person shall . . . unjustifiably injure, maim, mutilate or kill any animal.”
Subdivision 7 says, “No person shall [...]