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- 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...
- Presidential Prayers: To Whom It May Concern - January 14, 2009
- Then something wonderfully and distinctively American happened: "Mr. Samuel Adams arose and said that he was no bigot and could hear a prayer from any gentleman of piety...
- What Did the Conservative Movement Accomplish? - January 8, 2009
- In 1980, Ronald Reagan changed all that. His coattails brought an unexpected swing of 12 seats that put the GOP in the majority 53 to 46. An era began. In a few days,...
- Obama and Warren - December 24, 2008
- In the LA Times, nation editor Katha Pollitt called it "an insulting choice" to Obama's supporters. After all, how can a man who urged his flock to vote for Proposition...
- Bankrupt? - December 17, 2008
- "The Gods of the Copybook Headings," as Rudyard Kipling put it 100 years ago, promise that much.Bankrupt. Some $50 billion vanishes because one man decides,...
- No Car Czar Please -- We're Americans - December 10, 2008
- So President Bush, apparently delighted with the success Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson has had as our banking czar at jump-starting the economy, would replicate that...
- The Kids Are Not Ok - December 3, 2008
- The thing about moral norms is they take work -- hard work -- to inculcate in any of us, much less the average 19-year-old. It would certainly be a lot easier for most...
- Above the Hate - November 26, 2008
- This November, in the middle of a great blue Obama tide, Americans in three states spoke up clearly to agree: Marriage is the union of husband and wife.That's an ideal...
- No More Bailouts - November 20, 2008
- Remember when he went before Congress and asked for a "really big number" to throw at the credit crisis? Neither Republicans nor Democrats wanted to be the ones to take...
- The Ten Commandments vs. The Seven Aphorisms - November 12, 2008
- For the rest of us the first question is going to be: "What the heck are the Seven Aphorisms?"A short answer: They are the seven divine principles of something called...
- Marriage Wins in California - November 6, 2008
- And, by a margin of 52 percent to 48 percent, California voters became the first to overturn a state supreme court that tried to unilaterally impose same-sex...
- Predatory Government - October 30, 2008
- "Banks are getting billions. Insurance companies are getting billions. Why not GM?"There's a phrase for this phenomenon -- which I think we'll be seeing a lot more of...
- Palin and Her Critics - October 22, 2008
- Gov. Palin's appearance on "Saturday Night Live" this week was remarkably good-humored under the circumstances. But Sarah Palin has, whether she likes it or not,...
- Imposing San Francisco Values on First-Graders - October 15, 2008
- "He's become everyone's worst nightmare," said Barbara O'Connor, a professor of political communications at Sacramento State UniversityGay marriage is coming "whether...
- Obama's Truth Deficit on Ayers - Washington Times - October 11, 2008
- Obama's Friends and the Truth - New York Post - October 8, 2008
- Obama's Friends and the Truth - October 8, 2008
- It wasn't personal. John's dad was a judge presiding over a trial of the Black Panthers. The next morning, after the bombs exploded, John still remembers the red...
- Washington's Narcissistic Personality Disorder - October 1, 2008
- People who can't sell bonds and other credit instruments don't know what they are worth. Things that you can't sell have an immediate real value of "zero," even if their...
- Stoning in the 21st Century - September 25, 2008
- "The Stoning of Soraya M." is based on a true story -- and another is still playing out in Iran. Even now, human rights activists say, Gilan Mohammadi, a 30-year-old...