Straight From The Hart

Eric DeLeon was dying of liver cancer.  He was told he would have to wait at least two years for a liver transplant.  So he flew to China and paid $110,000 for a liver transplant which he financed with a loan on his home.  He was one of a growing number of Americans who have gone to China for transplants.  However, there is an ongoing controversy about where the transplants come from - executed prisoners or even political prisoners who are still alive at the time of the removal of vital organs, and who then die on the operating table. For several decades, China has engaged in widespread and systematic harvesting of organs from prisoners,   and people of conscience whose political or religious views conflict with the ruling Chinese Communist Party. In an article published this week by the Town Hall website and written  by Jeff Jacoby, we learn that China is still killing large  numbers of imprisoned men and women by strapping them down to operating tables, still conscious, and forcibly

There is a very fortunate 47 year old woman living somewhere today in the U.S.  She is fortunate because she is alive, although her mother wanted her dead before she was born and had taken extreme measures to kill her. Although her name and exact location are unknown, we know she was born in Texas in 1969 to a woman named Norma McCorvey, although you would know her mother best from a well-known Supreme Court case - Roe vs. Wade.  McCorvey’s attorneys filed that case in 1971 using the pseudonym of Jane Roe, plaintiff vs. Henry Wade, the District Attorney of Dallas County from 1951 to 1987.  Wade was the D.A. who enforced a Texas law that prohibited abortion (except in cases of rape or incest or to save a woman’s life). “Roe” wanted an abortion to end the life of her unborn child which she claimed at the time was the result of a rape.  She has since admitted that this was a lie. Wade’s actions to enforce the abortion law culminated in the case going all the way to the U.S. Supr

February 2017 is the 41st anniversary of the celebration of Black History month.   The National Museum of African American History and Culture opened just five months ago on September 24, 2016. Justice Clarence Thomas, the only African American currently sitting on the U.S. Supreme Court, celebrated the 25th anniversary of his appointment to the Court in October 2016 as the longest sitting African American Judge on the Court. If you were “connecting the dots” in this line of thought, you would arrive at the conclusion that in this month when the entire nation honors the innumerable contributions made by the community of African Americans to our national narrative, and given the years of wisdom and integrity which Justice Thomas has brought to this court, that he would be one of the centerpieces of honor highlighted within the magnificent halls of the beautiful African American History museum. Although there are many people of color who are held in p