Category: Life

11th Year Reflection on the Attacks of 9/11: We Won’t Forget.

| September 11, 2012 | Reply

For the Christian, saying “We Won’t Forget 9/11″ is not a rallying cry for vengeance on our enemies, although our country has a right to punish evildoers, defend herself against sworn foes and eliminate those who would continue to do us harm. It is also not a lament that indicates we are permanent victims, while [...]

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A Tribute to My Parent’s and Grand Parent’s Generation

| August 15, 2012 | 5 Replies

You’re just not that young….anymore   Your strong legs once propelled you out a C47 plane over France You’re just not that young….anymore   Your nimble fingers once ran wiring through B17s You’re just not that young….anymore   Your bronzed arms once let you rappel down from a Huey into a dangerous LZ You’re just [...]

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Of Steak, Hamburger, and a Sidelong Glance at the Gospel

| July 13, 2012 | 1 Reply

Two women. Two days. But the story is the same. Somehow it’s always the same. The first I met one day at the pregnancy resource center where I volunteer. She sat before me, quiet, beautiful, embarrassed. Tears fell from eyes that, Eve-like were open to a truth she’d rather forget. She had known better. Of [...]

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Blown to Smithereens: Why We Conservatives Got the Health Care Ruling We Deserved

| June 28, 2012 | 2 Replies

We screamed and shouted from the roof tops that “we have our rights!” You can’t make us—mandate us to!—buy something.  That is unconstitutional! All the while we empowered that same government to MANDATE that insurance companies carry people with pre-existing conditions. This is like pulling the pin, throwing a hand grenade straight up in the [...]

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Pittsburgh or Your Family? You Choose Who Lives or Dies

| June 5, 2012 | 1 Reply

From my new book, With Christ in the Voting Booth: “If a terrorist threatened to blow up the city of Pittsburgh unless you killed all your family members, would God hold you responsible if you refused the terrorist’s demand and he followed through on his threat? Absolutely not. If on the other hand, you killed [...]

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40 Days for Life Leaders Coming to Iowa

| February 29, 2012 | Reply

February 29, 2012—Des Moines, Iowa–David Bereit and Shawn Carney, Directors for the 40 Days for Life are coming to Iowa this week to celebrate the closure of two more Planned Parenthood abortion centers and for multiple 40 Days for Life prayer vigil site visits. “We are honored to stand side-by-side with international pro-life leaders, David Bereit [...]

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Planned Parenthood of Heartland Gets $500,000 Tax Funding Increase for Fewer Clients

| February 20, 2012 | Reply

Planned Parenthood of the Heartland’s client numbers are down, and yet the organization has increased its taxpayer funding in just one year by $500,000 in additional government grants. According to PPH’s most recent annual report, ending in Fiscal Year June 2011, Iowa’s largest abortion provider netted $1.9 million in government grants.  That’s up from $1.4 [...]

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Who Started the War on Women? Planned Parenthood’s Slick Campaign to Avoid the Issues

| February 15, 2012 | 1 Reply

Jill June, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland CEO, is on the warpath – in an imaginary war created by the organization that butters her bread, Planned Parenthood. According to June’s war rhetoric in her January 20, 2012, Des Moines Register letter to the editor (“Here’s another reason women leave the GOP”), Republicans “vilify,” “rampage,” “attack,” [...]

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Betty DeBoef’s House Floor Speech Upholding the Sanctity of Life

| January 28, 2012 | Reply

State Representative Betty DeBoef (R-What Cheer) gave an impassioned speech upholding the sanctity of life on the Iowa House floor marking the 39th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision.

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Governor Branstad Declares January 22nd to be Sanctity of Human Life Day

| January 20, 2012 | Reply

Iowa Governor Terry E. Branstad proclaims January 22nd, the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision as Sanctity of Human Life Day in Iowa.

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The Mitt Romney Death Panel Revealed: Carey’s Horror Story!

| January 20, 2012 | Reply

When Governor Sarah Palin objected to President Obama’s health care proposal (Obamacare) as containing “death panels” she was simply expressing what should be obvious to all: demands for efficiency and cost-effectiveness lead to widespread rationing of medical care. In all the debates about whether it is right to require people to carry insurance or to [...]

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Botched Abortion Lands Sioux City Woman In Hospital

| December 21, 2011 | Reply

SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Dec. 21, 2011 /Christian Newswire/ — An ambulance responded to an emergency call from Planned Parenthood of the Heartland in Sioux City, Iowa, at approximately 1:30 pm on Tuesday and transported a patient to a local hospital. Sidewalk counselors recalled seeing the same woman earlier in the day as she entered the [...]

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EXCLUSIVE: Family Leader and Bob Vander Plaats Will Not Endorse Gingrich, Great News for Bachmann or Santorum

| December 15, 2011 | 15 Replies

At Governor Huckabee’s Gift of Life movie premiere last evening, I had an opportunity to sit down with The FAMiLY LEADER president Bob Vander Plaats. In an earlier interview I heard him suggest that the Family Leader may have to make a pragmatic decision on who to endorse for President. I was concerned that “pragmatic” [...]

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Herman Cain, A Man Without a Country: Unprincipled Pro-Abortion and Ineffectively Pro-Life.

| October 20, 2011 | 20 Replies

I Kings 18:21 And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word. Herman Cain can’t make up his mind whether he is pro-life or pro-abortion.  He wants to ride the fence, [...]

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Volunteerism vs. Bureaucracy

| October 6, 2011 | 5 Replies

HT Foxfier Paul in Houston has a story about local volunteers coming to the aid of the mostly volunteer firefighters who were battling a nearby wildfire, and FEMA’s ham-handed attempts at dictatorially taking over. (As an aside, I have family in Magnolia who knew people who were evacuated from their homes due to this fire.) [...]

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Laws Against Murder Upheld (Asian-Americans and Native Americans, excluded)

| September 15, 2011 | Reply

Suppose a bill passed the Iowa legislature that reinforced the state’s homicide laws, protecting the citizens of the state against murderers. Now suppose that the law specifically excluded from protection any citizens of Asian descent or who claimed the legal status as a “Native American”.   When these groups are the victims, all prosecution of [...]

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