Patrick J. Reilly reports that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has ruled that Catholic institutions must pay for birth control in their health insurance plans, even though it violates their religion. Otherwise, they are guilty of discrimination: Last week, thanks to the Equal Employment Opportunity
The Vatican is seeking to recruit disaffected Anglicans, to the point of allowing their priests to stay married if they come over to Rome: The Vatican announced a stunning decision Tuesday to make it easier for Anglicans to convert, reaching out to those who are
Now credit card companies are going to charge you a fee for paying off your balance every month and if you don’t use your card enough: Starting next year, Bank of America will charge a small number of customers an annual fee, ranging from $29
Economist Robin Hanson uncovers some original sin when it comes to fantasies about robots. It seems human beings really do like the idea of dominating and exploiting. But we knew that: On Tuesday I asked my law & econ undergrads what sort of future robots
The University of Virginia is a pretty good school, with strong academics. But its educational standards are interfering with its football ambitions. UVA had one of the top recruiting classes a few years ago, but a number of the recruits couldn’t get admitted to the
An anthropologist has documented a remarkable physical decline in modern man: Many prehistoric Australian aboriginals could have outrun world 100 and 200 meters record holder Usain Bolt in modern conditions. Some Tutsi men in Rwanda exceeded the current world high jump record of 2.45 meters
What do you think about the Ohio teenager who became a Christian and later fled to Florida because she thinks her Muslim parents will kill her? The case is tied up in the courts as the parents are trying to get her back. They deny
President Obama and his family still have not picked a church in Washington, D.C.–I’m still holding out hope for our St. Athanasius–but he has been attending services when he is at the presidential retreat Camp David, and the Navy chaplain assigned there sounds like quite
Pastor Douthwaite had another killer sermon yesterday. See what he does with the “camel through the eye of the needle” text (Mark 10:23-31). An excerpt (with a reference to a woman who had just been baptized earlier in the service): God did something much more
Patrick Welsh, a teacher in our nation capital’s struggling school system came up with a trenchant insight from his own students: “Why don’t you guys study like the kids from Africa?” In a moment of exasperation last spring, I asked that question to a virtually
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