Ohioans: Don’t Be Deceived about Issue One!

November 6, 2023 By John M. Grondelski

Ohioans vote Tuesday on Issue 1, a referendum question that would write abortion on demand through birth into the state constitution.  Buckeyes: Don’t let pro-abortion advocates lie to you about the extremes of this amendment.  This amendment legalizes abortion through birth for any reason.  No restriction on abortion prior to birth would be constitutional in Ohio. Anybody who claims that is not true is lying.  The amendment pays lip service to the notion of “viability” — i.e., the point at which a fetus is capable of surviving outside the womb, generally about 20 weeks (5 months). 

But the amendment’s “restriction” is no restriction at all.  Why?  Three reasons:

• The amendment itself carefully does not say when viability occurs. 
• It does say that determination is up to the person performing the abortion — i.e., somebody who has a vested interest in removing that restriction. 
• And the amendment says the restriction can be waived in the name of the mother’s “health” — but does not define “health.”  That definition is not self-evident or common sense.  We know from nearly fifty years of Roe v. Wade that the Supreme Court stretched “health” to include emotional and psychological satisfaction.  So if you’d be unhappy that you can’t have an abortion when you want it?  Your “health” is endangered.  That’s not fantasy.  That’s not fiction.  That’s almost half a century of precedents.

Do you believe that abortion should be legal for any reason at seven, eight, or nine months of pregnancy?  Issue One guarantees abortion at those stages. ............To Read More....

When You Search ‘Pregnancy’ On Google, The Top Result Is For Planned Parenthood - By  Leif Le Mahieu Nov 3, 2023   DailyWire.com -  New study from Media Research Center finds that Google consistently favors pro-abortion sources over pro-life ones.  Google’s search results consistently favor pro-abortion sources over pro-life ones, according to a new study that tested the search engine giant against its competitors.  A new report by researchers at the Media Research Center’s Free Speech America says that a pro-abortion bias exists across Google’s search engine, its AI chatbot Bard, Google Ads, and company policies. Researchers at the MRC compared Google results to those of Bing and DuckDuckGo, saying that results from Google tilted in favor of a pro-abortion perspective......

Best and Worst News of 2022, Hopes and Fears For 2023

December 31, 2022 by Dan Mitchell

Continuing a tradition that began back in 2013, let’s look at the best and worst developments of the past year. Since I try to be optimistic (notwithstanding forces and evidence to the contrary), let’s start with the good news. I’ll start by mentioning that we will now have gridlock in Washington. That’s probably a positive development, but I’ll explore that issue tomorrow as part of my “Hopes and Fears” column for 2023.  For today, let’s focus on three concrete developments from 2022 that unambiguously are positive........ 

• States cutting tax rates and enacting tax reform 
• Chileans vote against a statist constitution
• More families have school choice

Now let’s shift to the bad news of 2022.

• Biden semi-successfully expands the burden of government
• The collapse of small-government conservatism in the United Kingdom
  
• Massachusetts voters opt for class warfare .............To Read More....

Hopes and Fears for 2023

January 1, 2023 by Dan Mitchell

It’s not easy being a libertarian, especially when your job is to protect economic liberty. Politicians have a natural incentive to increase the size, scope, and power of government. In almost all cases, our freedoms are best protected when politicians do nothing. Which is why, in general, I’m a fan of gridlock. But I also realize that we’re on a very bad path (thanks to demographic change and poorly designed entitlement programs), so we need to hope and pray that lawmakers at some point affirmatively take enact reforms to restrain the burden of government spending.

But that won’t happen this year. Instead, let’s review my hopes and fears on things that might actually happen. We’ll start with the things I hope to see.

• Rejuvenated interest in spending restraint
  
• More school choice
  
• The Supreme Court Ends Civil Asset Forfeiture
  

Now let’s look at the things I’m afraid will happen.

• Bipartisanship
• Green protectionism
  
• A Bursting Bubble in Italy..........To Read More....