Straight From The Hart

 If you are a news hound like I am, you probably see or hear at least one news report a day which makes your head spin and leaves you saying "what in the world were they thinking?" My column this week details several such recent stories.  Perhaps they make sense to you.  They certainly do not make sense to me.  Most of these stories would start with me saying, "Now let me get this straight"....even while I know there is no way there could be  a reasonable explanation for someone's words or actions. First off would be a statement by Terry O'Neill, President of the National Organization For Women, an organization notorious for its aggressive pro-abortion stance.  In an editorial she wrote for the Huffington Post this week she said "From a public health point of view, abortion care, no less than contraception, is an essential measure to prevent the heartbreak of infant mortality. In other words, American women need direct access to  abortions so they

I’ve been watching the news coverage of Hamas missiles attacking Israel for the last several days.  The chilling wailing of the air-raid sirens reminds me to pray for the Israelis and their leaders every time I hear them go off. I support Israel in its defense efforts and I’m  thankful for the Iron Dome that Israel has put in place but  regret that we were never able to get its counterpart in our own country where we are vulnerable and in the hands of more of our allies when we had the capability and a president with the desire to do so. I  served as Laclede County chairman for the Reagan campaigns in the 80’s, and  in that context, one of Lt. Gen. Daniel Graham’s associates in the High Frontier organization approached me about becoming a part of the National Speakers’ Bureau for the Strategic Defense Initiative, also known as the SDI. At that time, the defense policy of the United States consisted of the  Mutually Assured Destruction doctrine, appropriately nick-named MAD, which

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