Tag Archives: Brookings Institution

What Truth-Telling Liberals Say About Roe v. Wade

Posted on December 4, 2021 by David E Smith

The fact that “progressives” in their opposition to constitutional textualists/originalists—whom leftists know approach the U.S. Constitution with more rigorous fidelity than do “progressive” Justices—focus almost exclusively on the possibility that Roe v. Wade may be overturned would seem a tacit admission that there exists no constitutional right of women to have their intrauterine offspring slaughtered. The infamous Roe v. Wade is on the chopping block, and leftists are more distraught over the possible decapitation of Roe than they are over the actual decapitations of tiny humans.

Posted in Sanctity of Life | Tagged Abner Mikva, Alan Dershowitz, Benjamin Wittes, Brookings Institution, Earl Warren, Edward Lazarus, George Washington University Law School, Harry Blackmun, Harvard Law School, Jeffrey Rosen, John Hart Ely, Kermit Roosevelt, Michael Kinsley, Richard Cohen, Roe v. Wade, U.S. Supreme Court, Washington Post, William Saletan | Comments Off

Some Leftist Thoughts for Leftists About Roe v. Wade

Posted on May 20, 2019 by David E Smith

Staci Fox, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Southeast headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia said this about the Alabama ban on human slaughter: “[T]hese laws are unconstitutional and they [pro-life advocates] don’t care.”

It’s remarkable that the Founding Fathers managed to make clear to “progressives” that women have a constitutional right to have their offspring offed without ever uttering a single word about it in the U.S. Constitution.

Here are some quotes from liberal scholars and writers on Roe v. Wade collected by Timothy P. Carney, commentary editor at the Washington Examiner and a visiting fellow at the American …

Posted in Sanctity of Life | Tagged Alan Dershowitz, American Enterprise Institute, Benjamin Wittes, Brookings Institution, dred scott, Earl Warren, Edward Lazarus, George Washington University Law School, Harry Blackmun, Harvard Law School, Jeffrey Rosen, John Hart Ely, Kermit Roosevelt, Laurence Tribe, Michael Kinsley, Planned Parenthood, Roe v. Wade, Slate magazine, Timothy P. Carney, Washington Examiner, William Saletan | Comments Off

Connected? Big Government, Labor Decline and Opioid Addiction

Posted on September 20, 2017 by David E Smith

There is a great deal of talk about America’s opioid crisis and what can be done about such drugs. This has led to a focus on narcotic painkillers. In reality, America has an addiction problem. “What might be some of the factors leading to such addictions?” is a slightly different twist to a lot of the attention placed upon the types of drugs being abused. Could certain trends be connected to this dependent behavior?

In 1960, only 3 percent of men in their prime were not in the U.S. labor force. Today, that number has risen to 11 percent. …

Posted in Federal, Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged Addiction, Alan B. Krueger, Brookings Institution, narcotics, opioid crisis, painkillers, unemployment | Comments Off

Terrorist Collaborator Says Pot Made Him Do It

Posted on November 1, 2014 by David E Smith

As the American people prepare to vote on marijuana ballot measures in three states and the District of Columbia, measures which would make the mind-altering substance more freely available, more bad news keeps coming for the well-funded pothead lobby.

In a major terrorism-related case, a participant in the cover-up of the Boston Marathon bombing conspiracy, Robel Phillipos, claimed the drug had so many bad effects on his brain that he lied to federal agents.

The key question, however, is whether the major media will ever start reporting on the substantial evidence linking “cannabis” and mental illness, violence and terrorism.…

Posted in Federal, Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged ACLU, Ahmad Khalil, Bella Tsarnaeva, Brookings Institution, Carmen Ortiz, Derege Demissie, Dr. Alan Wartenberg, Dzhokar Tsarnaev, George Soros, Michael Dukakis, National Lawyers Guild, Peter Lewis, Robel Phillipos, Susan Church, The Washington Poison Center | Comments Off