I hate to be the bearer of good news, but sometimes it’s important. You know how overwhelmingly pro-abortion our media are. Or maybe you don’t. Human Life International — one of the best global pro-life groups — cites the studies (which for some reason are pretty old):
Five major studies on media attitudes between 1981 and 1995 found that between 90 and 97% of news media professionals consistently identify themselves ‘pro-choice,’ and a large majority support third-trimester partial-birth abortions for any reason.
I’m not sure why there aren’t more recent surveys. Maybe “pro-choice bias” isn’t something that journalists want to talk about.
Social media platforms are arguably more important now than traditional media platforms. And they are equally biased as the New York Times editorial board. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton knows that, and he decided to take on one particularly egregious form of bias — the conscious effort of Yelp to direct pregnant women away from centers that might help them to keep their babies, and send them instead to abortion clinics. Paxton’s office reports on the case he filed, and the happy outcome:
Attorney General Ken Paxton secured an appellate court victory against Yelp, Inc. (“Yelp”) in litigation regarding the company’s attempt to steer Texas users away from pro-life pregnancy centers and resources.
“Yelp tried to play politics and steer users away from pro-life resources, but being based in the criminal-loving state of California will not shield them from accountability,” said Attorney General Paxton. “I will continue to defend pro-life organizations that serve Texans and make sure that women and families are receiving accurate information about our state’s resources.”
Attorney General Paxton filed suit against Yelp after it was revealed that the company added misleading notices to the pages of crisis pregnancy centers in an attempt to divert Texans from pro-life providers. Yelp, however, persuaded a trial court to dismiss the suit, arguing that Texas lacked jurisdiction over the California-based company.
Yelp’s attempt to avoid accountability was rejected when the Fifteenth Court of Appeals reversed the dismissal and held that businesses, including online businesses, that target Texas consumers cannot escape accountability merely because they are headquartered outside of the State.
The Office of the Attorney General will continue to hold Yelp accountable under Texas law and ensure that Texans receive accurate information when seeking help and pro-life services.
The hostility of “pro-choicers” to centers that offer women a hopeful choice in desperate situations doesn’t emerge from a concern for women’s health, or even an exaggerated respect for absolute “bodily autonomy.” (Few pro-choicers opposed vaccine mandates, for instance, or favor legalizing all drugs.) No, people who trash centers that help women keep their babies are animated by something much darker, by spirits that hate Creation and especially innocent children.
Tribalist School Principal in Texas Fired for Racial Bias
For too long, we’ve given a pass to members of ethnic minorities for behavior that we’d consider outrageous if white people tried it. The cult of White Guilt that is replacing Christianity (even in many churches) demands that we hold non-whites to lower standards, as if that weren’t grossly racist from every reasonable viewpoint. But that doesn’t play well in Texas, as Gateway Pundit reports:
A Dallas, Texas, Principal has been removed from her position after Grant Stinchfield obtained an email that exposed the principal at Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas for engaging in what can only be described as discriminatory behavior towards White and Hispanic students.
The black Principal is accused of holding a “Black-only” assembly, where she allegedly told students she was “valuing the well-being of African American students over the others at this moment.”
That’s, according to one outraged Black student who wrote an email to the school administration calling out the discriminatory meeting.
Today on “Stinchfield,” Grant reads the email where the student whistleblower claims his black Principal even boasted about “only hiring Black staff.” That declaration appears to be a proud admission of the discrimination.
The political madness that has engulfed the American Left is not some normal, explicable thing. People who treat the Trump administration and its members as if they were Nazi war criminals, while going to bat for human traffickers and drug smugglers, aren’t just bad citizens. They’re caught up in frenzied hatred of the kind that fuels civil wars, genocides, and terrorism. Here’s just the latest piece of proof, as reported by The Blaze:
A Minnesota man has been arrested over a TikTok video that put a $45,000 bounty on the head of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
On Oct. 9, the FBI said it received a tip about the post that showed an image of Bondi with the caption, “WANTED: Pam Bondi. REWARD: 45,000. DEAD OR ALIVE (PREFERABLY DEAD).” The user also placed a “sniperscope red dot” on Bondi’s forehead in the image….
The FBI was able to trace the post to 30-year-old Tyler Maxon Avalos, who lived at an apartment in St. Paul, according to an affidavit….
Avalos has a long criminal history. In 2022 he was convicted of felony stalking, and in 2016 he was convicted of misdemeanor domestic assault. Also in 2016 he was convicted of felony third-degree domestic battery, which was a strangulation charge that was reduced.
Considering multiple assassination attempts on President Donald Trump himself, the attempt on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, shootings at churches and schools, and the (widely celebrated, by sickos) murder of Charlie Kirk, we have to take seriously the fact that violent revolutionary rhetoric is triggering the least balanced members of our society to become political soldiers. And the enemy is us.
Indiana Will Redistrict, Helping the GOP Keep the House of Representatives
Considering how unhinged the Left has become, they need to kept out of power at almost any cost, as you’d keep a rabid dog far away from toddlers. A Democrat-run House of Representatives wouldn’t just cripple the president’s efforts to return some rule of law to America’s borders, it would become a two-year-long fake impeachment circus, running out the clock on the rest of Trump’s term in office.
So it’s really important that the GOP do all it can to reverse race-based gerrymandering, undo the effects of an inaccurate census that counted illegal aliens, and use every other lawful means to win. Never mind “norms” and “precedents,” or the hurt feelings of tribalist politicians who feel entitled to “safe” minority districts. Texas Republicans are taking action to redistrict, and now other red states are following suit. Spectrum News reports:
Indiana Republican Gov. Mike Braun called Monday for state lawmakers to return to Indianapolis for a special session to redraw the state’s congressional boundaries, escalating a national fight over midcycle redistricting….
President Donald Trump has ramped up pressure on Republican governors to draw new maps that give the party an easier path to maintain control of the House in the midterms. While Republicans in Texas, Missouri and North Carolina have moved quickly to enact new districts and California Democrats are seeking to counter with their own redistricting plan, Indiana lawmakers have been far more hesitant.
Braun called for the General Assembly to convene Nov. 3 for the special session. It’s unclear whether enough of the GOP majority Senate will back new maps.
Why wouldn’t Republicans vote for maps that help their party win? Any Indiana GOP senators unwilling to help their party need to be primaried into oblivion. The stakes are just too high.
Supreme Court to Consider Challenge to Bankrupt Obergefell Decision
Remember when the Left pretended that it was all about “live and let live”? That was before the 2015 Obergefell decision unleashed a wave of lawfare against Christians not wanting to take part in the farce that is same-sex marriage, and launched transgender madness that invaded locker rooms, classrooms, and women’s sports across the world. And now the Supreme Court has a chance to revisit that narrowly decided, poorly reasoned decision. SCOTUS Blog reports:
The court is scheduled to consider whether to hear Kim Davis’ challenge to same-sex marriage at their private conference on Friday, Nov. 7. As a general practice, the court does not grant review without considering a case at at least two consecutive conferences; this is the first conference in which Davis’ challenge will be considered. If the justices deny review, however, that announcement could come as soon as Monday, Nov. 10.
As SCOTUSblog reported on Aug. 13 (from which this story is adapted), in 2015, shortly after the Supreme Court recognized a constitutional right to same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges, Davis, a local county clerk from Kentucky, made national headlines when she refused on religious grounds to issue a marriage license to a gay couple, David Moore and David Ermold….
Davis also asked the justices to overrule their decision in Obergefell, arguing that a right to same-sex marriage “had no basis in the Constitution” and left her “with a choice between her religious beliefs and her job.” “If ever there was a case of exceptional importance,” she asserted, “the first individual in the Republic’s history who was jailed for following her religious convictions regarding the historic definition of marriage, this should be it.”
The public-spirited citizens over at Mass Resistance have been lobbying state legislatures to pass resolutions supporting the overturn of this bad decision, with surprising success. More and more Christians are seeing that the government cannot be neutral on such basic questions as the nature of marriage; the State will either be pro-Christian or anti-Christian, and pro-Christian is better. We’re not supposed to seek out persecution, or sit by silent as the Natural Law gets dragged through the sewer.
Along The Stream
Don’t miss James Robison’s inspiring call to us to help build God’s joyful Kingdom right here on earth.
Later this morning, read Joseph Mattera’s thoughtful essay on how even “democratic socialism” is completely at odds with the Gospel.
John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.
