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- After Carrie - November 18, 2009
- Let me tell you a fairy tale. Once upon a time, a gorgeous blond California girl -- let's call her "Carrie" -- wanted to be a beauty queen. Asked about gay marriage,...
- The Maine Vote for Marriage - November 5, 2009
- On Election Day this past Tuesday, the people of Maine voted to repeal gay marriage, 53 percent to 47 percent. Gay-marriage advocates are bitterly disappointed. They...
- Gay Marriage Threatens the Establishment of Both Parties - October 28, 2009
- The Rev. Anthony Evans stepped up to the podium at Stand for Marriage D.C.'s rally last Sunday with a message for D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray: The black church...
- The Invention of Lying - October 21, 2009
- I've been thinking about the invention of lying. Maybe it's the pair of Virginia gubernatorial campaign ads I just saw on TV in which the word "dishonest" was hurled...
- Revenue Neutral, It Ain't - October 15, 2009
- The insurance companies have decided to let you and me in on a little secret: When the government says the health care bill is "revenue neutral," that doesn't...
- The Five Leading Indicators of Marriage - October 7, 2009
- How do you measure a marriage culture? The Institute for American Values, in conjunction with the new National Center for African-American Marriage and Parenting has...
- What are the Sexual Rules? - October 2, 2009
- "Every society regulates sex," Dr. R. Albert Mohler Jr. has noted -- it's just a question of how, and to what end? Not in the streets where it scares the horses. And not...
- Obama Fibs on Taxes, Abortion Beginning To Show - September 23, 2009
- There are lies, damn lies, and then there is politics. Read President Obama's lips: No new taxes for the middle class. Well, OK, maybe there will be revenue enhancers,...
- Transgender Poker? - September 16, 2009
- We live in an age where rights are multiplying like rabbits. Don't get me wrong: I like rabbits. In Vermont, 16-year-old Kyle Giard-Chase marched over to the Vermont...
- Gay Marriage Rage - September 9, 2009
- I was in Maine on the day that marriage qualified for the ballot this November. I went to Maine as president and founder of the National Organization for Marriage, which...
- Ted Kennedy, Pro-Abortion Saint? - September 3, 2009
- The body had barely been laid to rest with a presidential eulogy plus all the pomp and circumstance fit for a king or a Kennedy, when politcos began buzzing: "Another...
- The Heart of a Conservative - August 26, 2009
- Conservatives are on a roll. A huge negative reaction to liberal Democrats' overreach may well push the Republican Party to victory in 2010. What then? Ah, there is the...
- No Justice for Marriage - August 20, 2009
- Why has President Obama's Justice Department abruptly attempted to sabotage the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in federal court? Justice is supposed to be blind. When...
- Obama: Looking Like Bush? - August 12, 2009
- The Democrats must be having second thoughts about Obama's strategy to blunt the impact of health care protestors by calling them an "angry mob." I mean, look at the...
- Cash for Clunky Health Care? - August 5, 2009
- More cash for clunkers? Obama's Cash for Clunkers program ran out of money in just a few weeks, as Americans rushed in record numbers to take advantage of the new public...
- Fighting Fat By Fighting Fat - July 30, 2009
- How do we trim health care costs? Weighing in on the national debate, a new study in the journal Health Affairs urges: Fight fat by fighting fat. An obese person spends...
- Uninsured Like Me - July 23, 2009
- I'm not literally uninsured. But I started thinking hard about what Obamacare would mean for the people I know. A big chunk of people are uninsured for a reason. Health...
- I Heart Ruth Madoff - July 16, 2009
- "She has become perhaps the most vilified spouse of a financial rogue in history," The New York Times announced. Americans love to loathe Ruth Madoff, wife of convicted...
- Duke Case Raises Questions - July 2, 2009
- Frank Lombard is a Duke University health official, a licensed social worker, a white, college-educated, legal father of two African-American boys, and according to...
- The Divorce Will Be Televised - June 26, 2009
- America's most televised parents of multiples made it official: They are splitting up. Kate minus Jon makes nine. Yes, the children will suffer. But no doubt it will be...
- The Culture of Complaint - June 19, 2009
- Sarah Palin has graciously accepted David Letterman's long-delayed apology. The Alaska governor, in a statement issued Tuesday, accepted his apology "on behalf of all...
- Democracy - June 11, 2009
- The sausage-making isn't always pretty. Sometimes, at least, it's kind of amusing. This week in Albany, N.Y., a "coup" was staged. If you don't live in a democracy,...
- Two Murders - June 4, 2009
- Army Pvt. William A. Long was willing die for his country. He just never expected to have to do it in broad daylight on the peaceful streets of Little Rock, Ark. Long...
- Prop. 8 Wins - May 27, 2009
- I should be thrilled with Proposition 8's victory in the California Supreme Court. Instead, I wonder: Why in the world did I have to worry? Seven million Californians...
- Massachusetts Gay Marriage: Five Years Later - May 20, 2009
- Five years after same-sex couples first began to enter legal marriages -- recognized by court order -- in Massachusetts, what do voters in the Bay State think about gay...
- Miss California USA Keeps Her Title - May 15, 2009
- So Donald Trump, the big, strong alpha male, steps in to rescue the fair damsel in distress. Carrie Prejean, Miss California USA, will keep her title. Good for...
- Why is Trump Trying to Shut Up Miss California? - May 7, 2009
- Say it ain't so, Donald! Why is Donald Trump, one of the biggest mouths on the planet, trying to make Miss California USA, the runner-up Miss USA, shut up? That's what...
- Should America Be More Like Europe? - April 30, 2009
- Do we want to be like Europe? Europe is the first large and powerful civilization attempting to base itself on a pervasive secularism. The American tradition is not...
- Mainline Protestants' Dead End - April 15, 2009
- Is America's long love affair with Christianity coming to an end? Newsweek and other media decided the most appropriate way to mark the anniversary of Jesus' death was...
- Gay Marriage and the Future of Religious Liberty - April 8, 2009
- This week, by one vote, the Vermont Legislature overrode the governor's veto to impose same-sex marriage on that state. It's a breakthrough of sorts for the gay marriage...
- Should NY Discriminate Against Sex Abuse Victims? - April 2, 2009
- He is an assistant principal at a public high school -- Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day High School.Should public school teachers receive special protection from...
- Government's Brain Deficits - March 25, 2009
- Gee, this explains a lot about Washington, D.C., doesn't it? The Obama administration? Why President Obama's approval ratings have suddenly tanked in the latest Zogby...
- A Gay Marriage Compromise? - March 18, 2009
- They met to discuss a big new idea: Trade federal civil union protections for more generous religious liberty exemptions. Why compromise? Rauch argues, "The consensus...
- The Politics of Stem Cells - March 11, 2009
- It means research that is willing to destroy some nascent human lives in order to (possibly) save others. The politically astute move by the president produced one of...
- The Child Pornographer Next Door - March 4, 2009
- Among the recent cases:Six high school students from Greensburg, Pa., were charged with possessing, manufacturing and distributing child pornography this month after...
- The Actor and the Archbishop - February 26, 2009
- "We've got to have equal rights for everyone," he went on. "I'm very, very proud to live in ... a country who, for all its toughness, creates courageous artists." Sean...
- Bristol Palin Speaks - February 20, 2009
- Greta: "Do you have a philisophical or religious opposition to (contraception)?"Bristol: "No I don't want to get into detail about that -- I think abstinence is, like,...
- Waste the Crisis, Mr. President. Please - February 4, 2009
- Let's admit it: This whole stimulus thing is just a guess -- the best guess our best and brightest can come up with. Use government to force consumer spending that will...
- Obama Buys the Bush Bailout - January 29, 2009
- The president is not punishing failed and spendthrift executives. He is rewarding them with billions -- nay, trillions -- of taxpayer dollars.Obama is betting that a...
- Obama: The Morning After - January 23, 2009
- Is this what seriousness of purpose sounds like?"This," our new commander in chief told us, "is the price and promise of citizenship. ... With hope and virtue, let us...