Pro-Life
Strategies for the 21st Century
The
Cultural War
(Can we still win it?)
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By Dennis M. Howard © Copyright, 2010 (First
in a series)
If you date it from the start of Margaret Sanger’s
crusade to cleanse the world of “inferior people,” the “Great Cultural War” is
now officially 100 years old.
The critical question we face is: Are we winning it or losing it?
By “we,” I mean those who still believe in the
founding principles of our great country . . . those who stand fast for life,
liberty and the pursuit of genuine happiness!
And if we are losing it, what do we have to do to start winning it --
not in another 100 years, but within the lifetimes of most of us?
It is impossible to overstate the urgency of these
questions. The consequences of Margaret Sanger’s great crusade are severe
enough to threaten the future of Western civilization.
For the United States, these consequences became inevitable when
the Baby Boom was succeeded by the Baby Bust in the early 1960’s, but their
depth and severity did not begin to come clear until the mid-1990’s. Even
today, thanks to widespread political correctness, they still go largely
unacknowledged by the leaders of our major institutions. It is a crisis that a
great many leaders in the media, the churches, business and politics would
rather not talk about.
However, we have reached a turning point that,
without a major resurgence in traditional values, will lead inexorably to the
end of the American experiment. It is time to choose or die.
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By October 4, 2010
Pro-Life Memorial Day
the abortion toll will reach
53,247,132
"Look at the paralysis we suffer as a nation . . . It is not merely cynicism about the political system. It's fear of what the political system itself is capable of doing to a people, fear of the kind of laws legislators are capable of passing, fear of what people in the executive branches of government will do to get elected. "
-- John Cardinal O'Connor
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In the Footsteps
of Heroes
By Dennis Howard
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This is a story about a hero. He was my brother, but he could just as
easily have been yours. It is also the story of the last few months of a life
that seemed ordinary in most respects but, in fact, turned out to be quite
heroic — as would any life that followed in the footsteps of our Lord as He
walked His last steps up the hill to Calvary.
I was the last one in my family to see Eddie as he traveled across the
country on a troop train headed for Korea. It was early February, 1951, and I
was in Kansas City starting my career as a Catholic journalist. I was a
writer for The Sun Herald, the last attempt to publish a lay Catholic daily
newspaper in the United States.
I was awakened at 1 in the morning by a telegram from Eddie. He was
coming through St. Louis on a troop train. He said it would arrive in Kansas
City at 1:30 am, and asked me to meet it. I hadn’t seen him in a year, so I
jumped at the idea.
It took some doing to talk the Stationmaster into letting me down to
meet a troop train in the middle of a war. At first he said, “No way. You’re
not even supposed to know that troop train is here. Your brother could be
court-martialed if they knew he sent you that telegram.”
My heart dropped as he walked away. Then suddenly he turned
and said, “I know how you feel. I have a son in the Air Force. The train is on
Track 7. But don’t dare tell anyone I said so.”
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1-hour interview
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Chuck Neff interviewsDennis Howard
on the economic and social impact of abortion
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The $38.5 Trillion
Elephant in
the Living Room
By Dennis M. Howard ©
Copyright 2010
With the United States
and the world facing the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression,
everyone is asking: "How did we get here? And how and when will get out of
it?”
As the
only writer who was warning as early as 1994 that such a crisis was exactly
what we could expect based on ongoing demographic trends, it pains me to say,
"I told you so!"
Today,
there are loud voices on both sides predicting either a new boom or an
unprecedented disaster. None were
predicting anything significant in 1997 when I wrote my report titled “The
Abortion Bomb: America's Demographic Disaster.”
In
it, I wrote: "I see little hope that we can
avoid an eventual crash on Wall Street that will make the 1930's look like
cashing in your cards after a bad game of Monopoly."
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Howard is founder and president of The Movement for a Better America, a
non-profit, pro-life educational organization. This year will mark his 60th
Anniversary as a journalist. He began his career in October, 1950, as a
founding staff member of the Sun Herald of Kansas City, where he wrote a
3-times weekly column, edited and wrote national and
foreign news, and -- as he puts it -- "learned all the mistakes anyone can
make in attempting to publish a Christian daily newspaper." That job
launched Dennis on a long and interesting career in journalism and marketing.
He is currently writing a book on Pro-Life Strategies for the 21st Century. He
may be contacted via email at mbaforlife@gmail.com
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