Daniel Allott
While political liberals are busy advancing the fiction of a conservative “war on contraception,” their counterparts in academia are promoting a lie at the opposite end of the reproductive continuum. The anti-life crowd is giving new life to arguments for…
Earlier this week, abortion and pro-life advocates observed the 39th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, which, along with its companion case, Doe v. Bolton, recognized abortion to be a constitutionally protected right while giving states some…
Would conservatives support a presidential bid by David Petraeus? The Iraq surge architect isn’t a candidate. But for years prominent conservatives from Rep. Peter King to Andrew Breitbart have touted the soldier-scholar as a dream conservative candidate to take on…
Ask Republicans to explain the appeal of nominating Newt Gingrich to take on President Obama and it won’t be long before you’re reminded of the former House speaker’s intellectual and rhetorical acumen. Indeed, some Republicans become downright giddy when speaking…
Google “Romney’s Mormon problem” and you’ll receive thousands of references to what the conventional wisdom says is the Republican presidential candidate’s greatest liability among his party’s largest voting bloc, religious conservatives. In the eyes of many Christians, Mitt Romney’s Mormon…
It is often said that Americans are “sports-obsessed.” But while we obsessively watch, follow and bet on sports, seldom do we actually play them. Commercials during football games underscore how sports dominates the lives of many Americans. A beer commercial…
Quick question: When was the last time you saw a character with a disability on TV? If you’re a fan of Glee or CSI, perhaps it was quite recently. If not, it may have been a while — characters with…
In most assessments of Newt Gingrich’s presidential prospects (Gingrich began “exploring” a run for the Republican nomination in March), the former House Speaker’s three marriages, and the way he comported himself in the first two, are typically identified as his…
The Tea Party’s emergence and the Democrats’ decline. Public backlashes to Obamacare and the “Ground Zero Mosque.” Murmurings about the president’s religious faith and the field of prospective 2012 GOP presidential hopefuls. Think of any recent political headline and odds…
“We must start from the simple premise that Africa’s future is up to Africans.” With these words President Obama unfurled his Africa policy to dignitaries in Ghana in July 2009. Continuing, Obama declared that though all nations should aspire to…
