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Lipstick on a Toxic Pig
By Judie Brown Historically, the term lipstick on a pig refers to making superficial changes to a product to make it more appealing, even though that thing is fundamentally subpar. This is a form of marketing deception, and it is a contradiction to the tenet that honesty is the best policy. But what about the cultural pig—a theory that is life-threatening, disease carrying, or otherwise harmful...
America Has Tolerated Murder for Years
By Judie Brown Lost in our national debate these past few weeks has been acknowledgment of one fundamental truth: Every human individual whose right to life is, according to the Declaration of Independence, an unalienable right, is equally important and deserves equal...
Killing Democracy One Dead Baby at a Time
By Judie Brown Today’s cultural meltdown gives us an opportunity to see just how far the devil will go to achieve his goal. The perfect word for this is demoralization. Looking around today, we can see its effects everywhere. The most glaring example is, not...
Hatred Versus Solidarity
By Judie Brown We have seen recently that those in the mobs who shriek, destroy, and bludgeon in our streets represent not rational thought but are themselves filled with hate. They foment hatred because they lack respect for the dignity of the human person,...
Archbishop Gregory and the Science of Loathing
By Judie Brown According to Merriam-Webster, the history of the word ideology comes from “the French writer A.L.C. Destutt de Tracy [who] proposed it as a term to designate the ‘science of ideas,’ and in that sense the word was quickly borrowed into English. . . ....
What Is Freedom?
By Judie Brown In the secular world, freedom is defined by Webster as “the quality or state of being free: such as a: the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action” and “b: liberation from slavery or restraint or from the power of another.” But...
Blue States, Red States, and Elderly Fates
By Judie Brown When it comes to so-called red states and blue states, many stark differences exist. Some are economic; some are just disturbing. And while some report that the coronavirus hits the elderly and vulnerable at a higher level in some states more than...