Dwight Longenecker's Blog, page 72

Tattoos, Americans and the Jungle Drums

Last week while wasting time on the internet I came across the weird event of public body painting. You can read about it here, but be warned there are some images of partial nudity. What happened was a group of New Yorkers volunteered to strip naked and have their bodies painted. Quite apart from the [Read More...]

National Underwear Day and Family Planning

Believe it or not, today is National Underwear Day. Wearing underwear is not only civilized, but it has many practical purposes people haven’t thought of. Can’t be doing with another baby just yet? Do away with all those calendars and charts and thermometers, and simply keep your underwear on. When I was working as a [Read More...]

Cecil, Cecile and the Cowardly Lyin’

I have resisted the too easy observation that the world goes sadly angry about the killing of Cecil the Lion while turning away from pie dishes full of livers, lungs and limbs of dead babies. Instead I am curious about the responses of Cecile Richards–the President of Planned Parenthood–and all the other abortion supporters. Cecile [Read More...]

Cecile “See No Evil” Richards

Is anybody else as repulsed as I am by Cecile Richards with her tight face job, fake smile and phony sincerity? In her latest interview with CBS (in which the interviewer basically threw her one softball after another) it is interesting that she has now dropped the line that Planned Parenthood does not make any [Read More...]

Bully Me Bully You

My article this week for Imaginative Conservative is the Rise of the Victim Bully Being a victim is fashionable—ironically, becoming bullied is now the best way to bully others. It works like this: If you want to move forward in the world, make progress for you and your tribe, further your ambitions, justify your immoral [Read More...]

Stories from Slaughterhouse Five

The fifth video from the Center for Medical Progress outlines in more gruesome detail exactly what is going on in Planned Parenthood Slaughterhouse. Now there is simply no excuse. There is no place for Cecile Richards, Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton and other supporters to hide. This issue is not about women’s right to choose. This is not about a [Read More...]

Fifth Planned Parenthood Video: Killing and Selling Babies

The fifth video from Center for Medical Progress has been released. The evidence piles up relentlessly. Every video is more explicit than the previous one. Every video is more damning. Every video portrays Cecile Richards and her politician cronies as liars and killers. Once again, this next video is gruesome and heart wrenching. The Planned [Read More...]

The Real Reason Politicians Fund Planned Parenthood

After the failure of the attempt to de-fund Planned Parenthood, we should get think through what is really going on. I’m sure there are some politicians who genuinely want to de-fund Planned Parenthood, but they are clearly a minority. There are more who voted for the de-funding because it was politically expedient. They don’t give two [Read More...]

Six Reasons Why Giving Away Your Money Makes You Prosperous

My Dad was a Christian businessman who tithed 15% of his income to the church. That’s right. A whopping 15%. Before taxes. With a wife and five kids. He did so even when he had to re-mortgage his business property and his business was on the skids. At the age of fifty he and my [Read More...]

Atheists Believe in “Progress” – More Wishful Thinking

Check out Dawkins’ T-shirt sophomoric slogan: Religion. Together we can find a cure. I expect that’s what Stalin said to his cronies as he rounded up the priests, nuns and religious, shot them or herded them off to the Gulag. I usually don’t argue with atheists, but here is an exchange  from an atheist when [Read More...]