Reversing the trends of the last few decades, a majority of Americans (52%) now say that protecting the right to own a firearm is more important than controlling gun ownership. The question now is why that is. (more…)
Reversing the trends of the last few decades, a majority of Americans (52%) now say that protecting the right to own a firearm is more important than controlling gun ownership. The question now is why that is. (more…)
Apple, Angie’s List, and other companies were threatening to boycott the state of Indiana, thinking its Religious Freedom statute would allow businesses to discriminate against gays. In doing so, these companies were saying that they have the right to act on their managers’ sincerely held
What does it mean that we worship on Sunday, the first day of the week? Bart Day, national mission director for the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, says that Sunday isn’t just a Christian sabbath, nor even just a “little Easter.” It’s the first day of
The National Association of Scholars, an organization of conservative academics, has put out an FAQ page on what is wrong with the new Advanced Placement U. S. History exam. It sums up well the problems also with the Common Core, contemporary text books, and the
“Ignorance of the law is no excuse,” according to one legal maxim. And yet, in order for people to obey the law, there must be a “presumption of knowledge of the law.” Today, though, we not only have laws passed by legislatures, we have regulations
So what percentage of the world’s 6,101 languages do you think have translations of the Bible? WRONG (probably)! The Barna Group has conducted a study of Americans’ perceptions of how accessible the Bible is globally. Most Americans think the Bible is more available than it
We’ve blogged about the Maryland parents who have been charged with child neglect for letting their children walk home by themselves. There are similar cases in Texas, Florida, and South Carolina. The government is cracking down on “free range parents” in order to protect children
The public loves the television cop shows about crime-solving by means of forensic science. But we might want to reconsider the popularity of all of those CSI series. The FBI is now admitting that over 95% of the forensic evidence from human hair over two
We have blogged about the National Association of Scholars’ study Sustaintability: Higher Education’s New Fundamentalism. In a review of that document, George Will explains the sense in which this particular kind of environmentalism is, in fact, a fundamentalism. (more…)
The University of Michigan was going to screen the Academy-Award-nominated American Sniper, but then cancelled it when students launched a petition claiming the movie was intolerant of Muslims. But then other students launched a counter-petition saying that the university should show the movie in the
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