Ken Connor

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  Jun 5, 2013

  Father: Feminism's New 'F' Word

  In a recent Washington Post article, "The New F-Word: Father," Kathleen Parker discusses a recent study on household income dynamics by the Pew Research Center which shows that 40 percent of U.S. households with children under 18 are run by women who are either the primary or sole breadwinner.

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  May 28, 2013

  Screening New Citizens for Radical Beliefs is the Responsibility of Our Government

  America's obsession with political correctness is undermining our security and our Constitution. So argues newly initiated American citizen Ayaan Hirsi Ali in an article suggesting that the United States do more to screen out "political Islamists" from its pool of aspiring citizens.

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  May 21, 2013

  Resisting the Tide of Secularism in America

  So said First Things editor R.R. Reno in a speech delivered to a Hillsdale College leadership seminar this past February. In his address, Reno tracks the hostility that the Obama administration, the courts, and the ascendant "Nones" (those who, when asked in surveys to identify their religious affiliation, indicate "none") are exhibiting toward religious liberty in America.

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  May 14, 2013

  Collusion and Corruption at the IRS

  They say there are only two sure things in life: death and taxes. Try as we might, it's virtually impossible to escape the clutches of the Grim Reaper or the Tax Man. Both will get you eventually.

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  May 7, 2013

  Crony Capitalism Protects Wrongdoers, Harms Consumers, and Disrupts Markets

  Thanks to a renewed interest in the works of Ayn Rand and high-profile figures like John Stossel, Glenn Beck, and Rand Paul, libertarianism is enjoying a moment in the political sun. And just like America's two major parties, libertarians can often be blind to faulty logic and flaws within their own ideology.

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  May 1, 2013

  How Washington Really Works; Just Follow the Money

  If you want to understand what makes your congressman tick, and whose voice is in his ear when he's casting his vote, you need to understand exactly what it is that lobbyists do and why their pervasive presence in America's halls of government is so damaging to American democracy.

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  Apr 23, 2013

  After Boston, Making Sense of the Senseless

  How could they cold-bloodedly orchestrate the killing of innocent men, women and children who had done them no wrong? Hadn't they been integrated into American life?

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  Apr 16, 2013

  An Abortion Ghoul's Chamber of Horrors

  As if to emphasize the point, the nation is currently bearing witness to one of the most horrifying cases of slaughterhouse medicine in recent memory. Dr. Kermit Gosnell has been charged with the murder of seven newborn babies and one young woman after law enforcement raided his "clinic" on a hunt for illegal prescription drugs.

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  Apr 9, 2013

  Brutality in the Brave New World

  In his seminal work, Nichomachean Ethics, the philosopher Aristotle begins his meditation on the subject of morality and the ultimate end of human life with an observation that certain first principles of ethics are self-evident to a person who has been raised up in a virtuous manner

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  Apr 2, 2013

  With Easter Message, There is No Surer Bet

  This past Sunday, Christians around the world celebrated Easter as a memorial of Christ's resurrection. If Christians are correct about what happened on the first Easter morning, then the resurrection is the single most important event in human history.