Gosnell’s Clinic of Horrors

Imagine
By Michael Reagan on Thursday, May 16th, 2013
Making Sense, by Michael Reagan Remember the 1996 movie, “A Time to Kill”? An adaptation of John Grisham’s 1989 legal thriller, it stars Matthew McConaughey as a small-town lawyer in Mississippi who defends a black man who killed the two white racists who had raped his 10-year-old daughter. In his closing arguments McConaughey asks the jury to close their eyes and listen to the painful details of a story about the brutal rape of an ...
Learn from History
By Michael Reagan on Thursday, May 9th, 2013
Making Sense, by Michael Reagan History is one of our greatest teachers. It’s just too bad so many of our young people think history started with the death of Princess Di or the birth of the iPhone. I was painfully reminded of America’s historical illiteracy and the failure of our educational system last week while golfing with a few strangers in Burbank, Calif. One of the young men in my foursome was about 30 and ...
Out of the Closet and into Identity Politics
By Michael Reagan on Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
Making Sense, by Michael Reagan I’ve never sought the spotlight. Though I’m coming out to the world, I intend to guard my privacy. I’m making this blanket statement in part to keep rumors and misunderstandings at bay. I’m not just a white, Catholic Republican. I’m not just a Reagan conservative. I’m a heterosexual. Like Jason Collins of the Washington Wizards, I just want everyone in America to know my sexual orientation. And like Collins — ...
Lessons Learned in Boston
By Michael Reagan on Thursday, April 25th, 2013
Making Sense, by Michael Reagan The beautiful Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Center for Public Affairs in Simi Valley, Calif., was the last place I expected to be reminded of the violence that paralyzed the city of Boston last week and turned it into a mini-Baghdad. But I was reading my father’s presidential dairies and there it was in his very first entry — the issue of terrorism and how to fight it. On Jan. ...
Gosnell’s Clinic of Horrors
By Michael Reagan on Thursday, April 18th, 2013
Making Sense, by Michael Reagan Did you catch The Rev. Jesse Jackson the other night on CNN demanding a Senate hearing into why regulators never cracked down on that gruesome abortion clinic in Philadelphia? Did you hear Al Sharpton on MSNBC saying that if Dr. Gosnell had been killing white babies in Bryn Mawr, his women’s clinic would have been shut down 30 years ago? Did you see the tears in Oprah’s eyes when she ...