Christine Flowers

Even with Roe in place, Gosnell was allowed to kill and maim
Say “Kermit Gosnell” to someone outside of Philadelphia, and they will look at you with the puzzled expression of someone whose only familiarity with that name comes from a cute little frog singing about rainbows. Gosnell was an abortionist who ..
With shocking Chavez revelations come questions for Huerta
Another myth has crumbled, decades after death extinguished the person, but not the legend. Cesar Chavez, he of United Farmworker fame, he of the marches and the documentaries and the hagiographic histories, has been unmasked as a man with the same ..
Meet two sides of the antisemitic coin
I’ve received a few letters from readers over the past few weeks asking me why I keep writing about antisemitism. One was a simple question, with no negative intent. The others run the gamut between “stop carrying water for the Jews” to “ant..
Vicious Iranian regime getting what it deserves
Years ago, when I first started to handle asylum cases, I had a consultation with a man from Iran who managed to get tourist visas for himself, his wife and his two young daughters. This was 20 years after the Shah had been deposed and the Ayatollah..
Misguided matriarchy can’t dim men’s hockey Olympic gold
Looking for a good movie the other evening, I came across one that I’d missed when it was out in theaters about a decade ago: “The Mighty Macs.” This was a slightly fictionalized version of a true-life triumph: small Catholic women’s college..
Hatred out in the open, from the bottom to top of society
There's a lot of hatred in the world today. For a while, starting from when I was a young girl, it was classless to openly display your bigotry. People would whisper among themselves about “the others,” and epithets were spoken at cocktail parti..
Antisemitism again, this time from Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission
I thought I could abandon the topic of antisemitism for a few weeks. There was Pam Bondi to ridicule, ICE raids to criticize, and an idiotic Super Bowl halftime show performed in Spanish by a guy who didn’t want us to know how misogynistic he real..
Antisemitism and blatant hatred on display in Philly
One of my favorite stars is Gregory Peck, because he embodied what I always believed to be the American ideal: a handsome man who spoke quietly, but whose moral center was rock solid. Of course, he was Atticus Finch, fighting racists in the Deep Sou..
On Pretti and protesters in Minneapolis
ICE has been out of control over the past few months, and particularly since the beginning of this year. Over the three decades I’ve been practicing immigration law, I’ve never seen the level of chaos and division, fomented by the rhetoric of Do..
Minnesota church invaders deserve the FACE Act
A few years ago, I had to do some research into the Freedom of Access to Clinics Entrances Act, colloquially known as FACE. Every pro-lifer in the country knows about this law, signed in 1994 by President Bill Clinton to protect abortion clinics fro..
Casting a wary eye on Trump’s Greenland maneuvers
I studied the classical philosophers in college, including Plato, Socrates and Aristotle. But the most profound advice I’ve culled over a lifetime of scholarship has come from contemporary pop stars. The Beatles reminded me in a rather pithy way t..
Reaching a conclusion about Renee Good’s killing
It finally dawned on me the connections we make on social media have absolutely nothing to do with reality. This is why I never tried online dating. I know people who found love that way, including a few “silver singles” who managed to excavate ..

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Christine Flowers is a Philadelphian who loves the Eagles but can leave the cheesesteaks. She writes about anything that will likely annoy the majority of people, and in her spare time practices immigration law (which is bound to annoy at least some people.)