The Sudanese woman who had been sentenced to death for refusing to recant her Christianity was released last week after another detention. She made her way to Italy with her family, where she had an audience with the Pope. She is reportedly headed to the
Our nation’s capital is gearing up to join Colorado and Washington state in legalizing marijuana. Already about half of the states have legalized the drug for medicinal use. Journalist Richard Leiby has noticed what would seem to be an odd fact: Despite our supposed political
British journalist Peter Foster, writing in the London Telegraph, sees the shooting down of the Malaysian airliner over the Ukraine as just one symptom among many of the global order coming apart. And with the disengagement of the United States and the timidity of Europe,
Democrats make a big show of bemoaning the influence of big corporations in elections and the Supreme Court ruling that allows for the formation of super-Political Action Committees that threaten to buy elections. But guess what? Democrats currently hold a 2 to 1 advantage when
Summers are usually the season to go to the movies, when studios released their fun pop-corn flicks for the out-of-school and summer vacation crowd. But what happened to this summer? I haven’t gone to the movies once because there haven’t been any that I’ve been
There is a new word in the political lexicon, gaining currency as Rand Paul builds a following in the high-tech crowd: Conservatarian. A combination of “conservative” and “libertarian.” So would any of you describe yourselves as Conservatarians? What are its tenets? How is it different
The media has been trumpeting an Australian study that purported to show that children raised by same-sex parents actually fare better than those raised in traditional families. That’s quite a claim. Until you look more closely at the study. (more…)
We blogged about how Anglicans in Australia are doing away with the absolute “seal of confession”–that is, the pastor’s pledge of total confidentiality when they hear penitents confess their sins. Now an American court is trying to do the same thing, forcing a Roman Catholic
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass), the liberal favorite, spoke to the Netroots Nation, the big convention of left-leaning bloggers and activists. She answered the question “What does it mean to be a progressive?” by listing 11 beliefs that will probably form the framework of a progressive
We blogged about how new evidence is casting doubt on the existence of the universe. Scientists have also discovered a massive discrepancy between the amount of light that we can detect and the amount of light produced by galaxies and quasars. The two are off
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