Will Raising Minimum Wage Help Seattle’s Poor?

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Will Raising Minimum Wage Help Seattle's Poor

With a law set to raise the minimum wage from $8 to $15 an hour, Seattle begins its journey to help those who are impoverished while stimulating its economy at the same time. On the surface this appears to be a win-win situation that only the ignorant and hard-hearted could condemn. Indeed, … Read more

Thousands Across the U.S. Join the Crusade for Traditional Marriage

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HANOVER, PA (March 19, 2015) America Needs Fatima, a campaign of The American TFP, has organized over two thousand public square traditional marriage rallies across the nation for this Saturday, March 21, the day closest to Saint Joseph’s feast day. Last year, the beginning year for the traditional marriage rallies under the … Read more

Living Longer…But Not Better

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Modern technologies have led to incredible advances toward the longevity of the average person. With the advent of the steam engine during the Industrial Revolution, advances in food transportation and breakthroughs in medical care have over time given rise to great increases in population throughout the world. Infant mortality and childhood deaths … Read more

Why Did Steve Jobs Limit His Children’s Exposure to Technology?

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Why Did Steve Jobs Limit His Children's Exposure to Technology? 1

There is the mistaken impression that computers represent the future and that everyone, especially the very young, should become computer savvy as soon as possible. According to this view, failure to expose children to high technology handicaps their ability to function in the real world. However, in the real world, addiction to … Read more

Death Penalty: Avoiding Ambiguity in Doctrinal Matters

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 In a strange coalition, conservative and liberal Catholic publications made an appeal to Catholics: “We, the editors of four Catholic journals — America, National Catholic Register, National Catholic Reporter and Our Sunday Visitor — urge the readers of our diverse publications and the whole U.S. Catholic community and all people of faith … Read more

“Sex Change”: Biological Impossibility and Revolt Against God

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“Sex Change”: Biological Impossibility and Revolt Against God 2

To its “LGB” acronym the homosexual movement added the “T” for “transsexual” or “transgender” in a kind of “common front” of all anomalies in sexual behavior. Unsurprisingly, the acronym keeps increasing. For example “LGBTTQQIAAP” (Transsexual, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, Ally, Pansexual). The inclusion of so-called “transsexualism” or “transgenderism” in the homosexual campaign … Read more

Over One Hundred Thousand Appeal to Pope Francis: Save the Family!

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Saint Peter's Basilica Over One Hundred Thousand Appeal to Pope Francis: Save the Family

Spring Grove, March 5.— The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP), working together with like-minded groups throughout the world, has launched a worldwide filial petition to Pope Francis to safeguard the family. This petition, which already has over 125,000 signatures,  will be presented before the  upcoming world … Read more

The Great (Fire) Wall of China Keeps Out Free Speech

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Great Fire Wall of China Keeps Out Free Speech

It seems that whenever the communist Chinese have a problem, they like to wall it off by separating the problem from the general population. For a long time, dissidents have been separated in labor and reeducation camps. Now it appears that unwelcome commentary is getting its own wall—a firewall. In a futile … Read more

No Professor Left Behind

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I recently had the opportunity to guest lecture for an American Government class at a private Midwestern college. My friend who teaches the class invited me to share some insights about political theory. While I have taught classes to select groups of motivated students, I was ill prepared for the harrowing experience … Read more