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Editor's note: The following commentary is excerpted from Jack Cashill's eye-opening new book, "Hoodwinked: How Intellectual Hucksters Have Hijacked American Culture," where he shows how, over the last century, "progressive" writers and producers have been using falsehood and fraud as their primary weapons in their attack on America. Although Planned Parenthood has tried desperately to shred the files of its founding mother, Margaret Sanger herself has left a detailed record of how she lived and how she thought. The most unimpeachable source of the former is her autobiography, written in 1938, and of the latter, her landmark book, "The Pivot...

Dan Flynn discusses more than a dozen intellectual morons in his book, including Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault, Margaret Sanger, and Alfred Kinsey. Of all the figures discussed in Intellectual Morons, which one has had the more pernicious impact on our world and why? My college education seems to have included a reading, at one time or another, of a who’s who of Dan Flynn’s intellectual morons. Whether it was the application of Michel Foucault’s sexual theories to Victorian literature, an exploration of Alfred Kinsey’s findings in psychology, or an all-star lineup of thinkers like Sanger, Friedan, or Du Bois in...

WASHINGTON, March 28 - The final report of a presidential commission studying American intelligence failures regarding illicit weapons includes a searing critique of how the C.I.A. and other agencies never properly assessed Saddam Hussein's political maneuverings or the possibility that he no longer had weapon stockpiles, according to officials who have seen the report's executive summary. The report also proposes broad changes in the sharing of information among intelligence agencies that go well beyond the legislation passed by Congress late last year that set up a director of national intelligence to coordinate action among all 15 agencies. Those recommendations are...

Dear Editor,: Nearly 35 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. was honored with Planned Parenthood’s "Margaret Sanger Award," named after the courageous woman who, in 1916, opened the first birth-control clinic in New York City and founded the Planned Parenthood movement. King was recognized for his strong support of family planning. The words of King still have a great impact on our cause today: "There is no human circumstance more tragic than the persisting existence of a harmful condition for which a remedy is readily available. Family planning, to relate population to world resources, is possible, practical and necessary. Unlike...

In 1960, Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, vowed that she would leave the United States forever if that well-known defender of reactionary conservatism, John F. Kennedy, were ever elected to the presidency. Margaret was a fervent Marxist, a radical feminist, and, despite comical denials posted on Planned Parenthood’s website, a rabid eugenicist. According to her New York Times obituary, dated September 7, 1966, Sanger specifically recommended the practice of birth control to prevent procreation among those of the poor prone to producing heritably ‘subnormal’ children, and, in the early years of the 20th Century, the masthead of her...

Silent No More: A Major Crisis in the African-American CommunityBy Rev. John J. Raphael, SSJRoman Catholic ChaplainHoward University, Washington, DC Do you know what the leading cause of death in the African American Community since 1973 is? Think about it for a minute. Is it heart disease-2,266,789 deaths since 1973, cancer-1,638,350, or accidents-370,723? Is it AIDS-203,695, or violent crimes-306, 313? There is one possibility that is often overlooked. It happens 1452 times a day in our community. It has taken over 13 million Black lives within the last 30 years. It has taken 1/3 of our present population. What...

AMSTERDAM — A hospital in the Netherlands — the first nation to permit euthanasia — has proposed guidelines for mercy killings of terminally ill newborns and then made a startling revelation: It already has begun carrying out such procedures, which include administering a lethal dose of sedatives.     The announcement by the Groningen Academic Hospital came amid a growing discussion in the Netherlands on whether to legalize euthanasia on people who are incapable of deciding for themselves. [snip]The hospital revealed last month that it had carried out four such mercy killings in 2003 and had reported the cases to government...

Taking their message as close to school campuses as they are legally allowed, local abortion opponents have been distributing information to students that compares abortion with racial lynchings by the Ku Klux Klan. About 15 members of a group called Teens for Life appeared late last week outside Rocklin High School and, as students entered campus, distributed brochures depicting a pointed white hood with the statement: "Lynching Is for Amateurs." "Planned Parenthood is accomplishing what the Klan could only dream about," the brochure states underneath a list of statistics about abortion rates among African American women. Typically, the group stands...

WASHINGTON -- After a lengthy incubation, the sick dreams of Margaret Sanger are finally hatching. Against the excuses of her modern defenders, it should be remembered that the founder of Planned Parenthood's main interest in the legalization of abortion was not that women should be freed from the bonds of childbearing, but that unsavory types should be cleansed from the larger population. In fact, Sanger only turned to abortion when her original plan to "apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation" to those with "objectionable traits" -- sometimes derided as the stronger epithet "human weeds" -- found...

In 1967 and 1968, Japan, Europe and America were aflame with violence. From the London School of Economics, to the Sorbonne, from Japan to Rome and in dozens of cities across the United States, tens of thousands of students staged protests and sit-ins throughout the countries of the First World. While dozens of books with varying theories concerning the causes of this conflagration have been written, most agree implicitly or explicitly on one thing: post-war fecundity, the unusually high world-wide population of young people following World War II, was the fuel for the fire. The irony is rather interesting.

Latina Komen Advisor Resigns Latina Komen Advisor Resigns Women of color have been the target of Eugenics policies for many years. Margaret Sanger's Planned Parenthood, has its roots in the destruction of people of color. Latina Advisor resigns over Komen's Planned Parenthood funding. (PRWEB) September 24, 2004 -- Definition: Eugenics - The study of hereditary improvement of the human race by controlled selective breeding. (American Heritage Dictionary, Standard Edition) [Margaret Sanger…] built Planned Parenthood, on the ideas and resources of the eugenics movement." (blackgenocide.org) In one town alone, Barceloneta [Puerto Rico], 20,000 women were sterilized between 1956 and 1976 (Garcia...

In his new book, Intellectual Morons, Daniel Flynn exposes the dangers of blindly following intellectual elites who support and promote idiotic ideas and theories. Chris Banescu, who recently wrote the review of the book, interviewed Flynn about the origins of the material and the impact its revelations will have on our culture. Chris Banescu: What inspired you to write this book? Daniel Flynn: My goal in writing Intellectual Morons is to get more people to think with their brain rather than their ideology. By exposing ideologically-inspired hoaxes and frauds, the book not only rebuts falsehood but helps immunize readers against...

My daughther came to me with an interesting question tonight about Margaret Sanger. She said her history teacher in her 9th grade class were shown a documentary that included Margaret Sanger. The documentary was about "Women in American History". It included women like Abigail Adams and Sally Ride. Maragert Sanger was at the end of the list. Now, to the teacher's credit, she immediately told the class to discount Margaret Sanger as a Racist, Pro Nazi, and that was for the forced termination of reproduction of other races. I was hoping that my fellow FReepers might aid in her education...

Kerry’s kiss of death by Judi McLeod At best, Senator John Kerry isn’t winning any friends being endorsed by the political arm of the taxpayer-supported Planned Parenthood Federation. At worst, it could be the Kerry kiss of death. Kerry’s landmark endorsement is the first time the group has ever endorsed a candidate for president, according to the American Press--and it could be the last when mainstream Americans discover what the Planned Parenthood Federation stands for. Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood had this to say about blacks, immigrants and indigents: "…human weeds, ‘reckless breeders’, `spawning…human beings who should never have...

Note: This commentary was delivered by Prison Fellowship President Mark Earley. One day in 1981, when Jeannette Watson was visiting her doctor for a pregnancy checkup, she told him about her congenital hip displaysia. The doctor informed her, “In a few years there is going to be a genetic test to determine early in a pregnancy if the fetus carries that defective gene.” Jeannette, who considered herself pro-choice, responded, “I would never kill my baby because he had hip displaysia.” Jeannette’s husband, Alexander Sanger, disagrees. He tells this personal story in his new book, Beyond Choice: Reproductive Freedom in the...

UNICEF Nigerian Polio Vaccine Contaminated with Sterilizing Agents Scientist Finds Scientist says things discovered in vaccines are "harmful, toxic" KADUNA, Nigeria, March 11, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A UNICEF campaign to vaccinate Nigeria's youth against polio may have been a front for sterilizing the nation. Dr. Haruna Kaita, a pharmaceutical scientist and Dean of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, took samples of the vaccine to labs in India for analysis. Using WHO-recommended technologies like Gas Chromatography (GC) and Radio-Immuno assay, Dr. Kaita, upon analysis, found evidence of serious contamination. "Some of the things we discovered...

This article first appeared in the January 20, 1992 edition of Citizen magazine and can be found on the LEARN website. LEARN was officially established in 1993 at the African American Pro-Life Planning Conference in Houston, Texas. One of the primary goals of LEARN is to facilitate a strong and viable network of African American and minority pro-life/pro-family advocates. L.E.A.R.N. Northeast is part of the Life Education And Resource Network (LEARN), a national network of Christian pro-life/pro-family advocates who are dedicated to protecting the pre-born and promoting traditional family values ______________________________________________________ January 20, 1992 At a March 1925 international birth...

See if you can guess the source of this quote. "It is better for all the world . . . [if] society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind . . . Three generations of imbeciles is enough." If you think that this quote came from a Nazi document, you're wrong. It's from Oliver Wendell Holmes's 1927 majority opinion in BUCK V. BELL that upheld a Virginia law mandating the sterilization of the "feebleminded." Twenty years later, Holmes's words were thrown back in our face by Nazi defendants in the Nuremberg trials. You see, while the...

AUSTIN -- Abortion providers who also offer cancer screening and other preventive care services to thousands of poor women would lose all state funding under a measure budget writers adopted Thursday night. The vote, six Republicans in favor to four Democrats opposed, came after some lawmakers expressed serious objections that poor women in many parts of Texas would have nowhere to turn for cancer and sexually transmitted disease screening. Budget Conference Chairman Rep. Talmadge Heflin, R-Houston, said the purpose of the new budget measure is simple and clear. It is to limit abortions. "If the contractor wishes to provide the...

NewsMax.com religion editor Fr. Michael Reilly comments on the abortion industry's plans for postwar Iraq. What do Iraqi women need now more than ever? According to Planned Parenthood, if you answered food, water or medicine, you're wrong. Instead, the pro-abortion advocacy group sees the liberation of Iraq as an opportunity to extend abortion and birth control to yet another civilization. "If we are fighting for freedom in Iraq, then most surely that freedom should extend to women globally and in the United States," says Planned Parenthood President Gloria Feldt, in a statement posted on the group's Web site. "The most...