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More benefits from the bad economy. Inflation slows to half-century low in 2008: Inflation slowed...

Someone explain what happened here, as reported on the Touchstone blog: A Japanese Lutheran scholar,...

Finally a line of clothing that I'd really like to have! President Obama Wears Bullet-Resistant...

Do you remember Mad Magazine? I sure do. Stumbling upon it as a kid was...

Novelist John Updike died of lung cancer at age 76. One of the most acclaimed...

Seven Stanzas at Easter by John Updike Make no mistake: if He rose at all...

Republicans trying to help the economy have pushed for "trickle down economics." That is, help...

Columnist David Brooks discusses a book by political scientist Hugh Heclo entitled "On Thinking Institutionally,”...

The Covenant School is a first-rate classical Christian school in Dallas. It's in the news...

Nancy Pelosi's scheme to include massive spending on family planning as part of the bailout...

Before he was inaugurated, Barack Obama's approval rating was 83%. Now it's 68%. (source) And...

Civil engineering professor Henry Petroski makes a useful distinction: "We will restore science to its...

Thanks to Tickletext for citing in a comment this quotation from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Creation and...

The new urbanist scholar Joel Kotkin points out that Washington, D.C. is rapidly becoming the...

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi wants hundreds of millions of dollars in the economic...

President Obama has lifted restrictions that had prevented U.S. government funding for abortions in other...

According to another one of those studies, the job that scores highest on the happiness...

So says "The Washington Post." From Bush's 'War' On Terror Comes to a Sudden End:...

Here are this year's Oscar nominations. You can click for the complete list, but here...

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...

On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade legalized abortion. Today is...

Can anyone deny these words from Mother Teresa? "America needs no words from me to...

I know the usual arguments--that women should have the right to control their own bodies...

Relevant to the topic above, Al Mohler reminds us that many of the icons of...

One of the best books I've ever read about abortion is Abortion and the Early...

On the mall of our nation's Capitol, where two days earlier over a million people...

I remembered something. . . .Back when this blog was at its old site, when...

I would like to propose to the American Idol contestants, nearly all of whom are...

Anne Applebaum sees the crash of Flight 1549, with the marvel that everyone survived thanks...

The British newspaper "The Independent" reminds us of an adage that both conservatives and liberals...