Re: Re: Family Planning Summit

By Austin Ruse July 11, 2012

Andrew Stuttaford cites Lant Pritchett to support the contention that contraception for birth spacing is a good thing for women’s health. This certainly is the common wisdom, but even that ...

Family Planning Summit: Billionaire Do-Gooders with Condoms

By Austin Ruse July 11, 2012

Today Melinda Gates is convening a Family Planning Summit in London where she hopes to secure governmental and non-governmental commitments of $6 billion to meet what she sees as a ...

A Defeat for the Radicals at Rio

By Austin Ruse June 20, 2012

Pro-abortion feminists are already squawking at the drubbing they have taken at the Rio Conference on Sustainable Development. Though the official conference begins today, it is merely a circus added onto ...

Teachers’ Unions: Testing the Bounds of Nuttiness

By Austin Ruse March 18, 2011

In the ongoing fiscal fights over public-sector unions, including teachers’ unions, it is perhaps easy to overlook how nutty and even offensive the policies and representatives of teachers’ unions can ...

Sadly, No International Right to Life that Includes the Unborn

By Austin Ruse October 12, 2010

For two decades, the radical Left at the United Nations has tried to create an international right to abortion by misconstruing U.N. documents and pushing faulty legal theories. Rita Joseph ...

Politics & Policy

The Da Vinci Code Is Dead

By Austin Ruse June 13, 2006

The Da Vinci Code opened four weeks ago with an ungodly amount of free publicity and returned a whopping $77 million in its first week of release. It should have ...

Politics & Policy

Fear and Loathing

By Austin Ruse February 22, 2005

Hunter Thompson shot himself in the head sometime on Saturday and a few things are certain. He was either stoned or hung over, and his work will be forgotten. Ask almost ...

Politics & Policy

Holy Democrats!

By Austin Ruse September 15, 2004

The Presidential Questionnaire from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is dead. But do not mourn. Its death is a good thing, and is important not just for ...