The new urbanist scholar Joel Kotkin points out that Washington, D.C. is rapidly becoming the center of all American power. Used to, America had many different centers of power: Each state had its governmental capital. In business, the financial industry had New York City; automobiles
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi wants hundreds of millions of dollars in the economic stimulus bill to expand the use of contraceptives and family planning services. So she said to George Stephanopolis on the ABC interview show “This Week.”
President Obama has lifted restrictions that had prevented U.S. government funding for abortions in other countries: President Barack Obama on Friday lifted restrictions on U.S. government funding for groups that provide abortion services or counseling abroad, reversing a policy of his Republican predecessor George W.
According to another one of those studies, the job that scores highest on the happiness index for people who hold it is (believe it or not) being a pastor! Here are the top ten in order of happiness: 1. Clergy Job Description: Conduct religious worship
So says “The Washington Post.” From Bush’s ‘War’ On Terror Comes to a Sudden End: President Obama yesterday eliminated the most controversial tools employed by his predecessor against terrorism suspects. With the stroke of his pen, he effectively declared an end to the “war on
Here are this year’s Oscar nominations. You can click for the complete list, but here are the big ones: 1. Best Picture: “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “Frost/Nixon,” “Milk,” “The Reader,” “Slumdog Millionaire.” 2. Actor: Richard Jenkins, “The Visitor”; Frank Langella, “Frost/Nixon”; Sean Penn,
New York governor David Paterson has appointed state congresswoman <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/local/state/ny-stsena0124,0,6143131.story" Kirsten Gillibrand to fill Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s senate seat. Caroline Kennedy, who had seemed the most likely pick, withdrew her name after facing much criticism. Speaking of which, we have never really
On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade legalized abortion. Today is the opposite of a holiday; it is an unholy-day. But we need to mark this day nonetheless.
Can anyone deny these words from Mother Teresa? “America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has
I know the usual arguments–that women should have the right to control their own bodies and no government should be able to force them to keep their babies, etc.–but these are not LIBERAL arguments, as such. It would make sense for an Ayn Rand, laissez
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