Stem Cells
by It’s not popular to say that Bush’s veto of the recent bill promoting embryonic stell cell research is for the best. But I’ll go on …
Op-Ed Blog
Liberalism Distilled
It’s humbling to realize that after all of the posts I’ve written in the past few years that I’ve never managed to properly capture the …
Border Security
Charles Krauthammer says that there’s only one thing Americans agree on when it comes to immigration reform: fixing the border. At least that’s one thing …
Obama on Fatherhood
Here’s an example of why it’s great to have Barack Obama in the presidential primaries: “There are a lot of men out there who need …
Religion of Peace
Islam means peace, according to some Muslims who, it seems, have a rather tenuous connection with reality. Today the peacemakers struck in in Tirin Kot, …
War in the Classrooms
In America the debate is over how to deliver universal education to all American youth, not whether it should be done. There is some argument …
Polygamy 2007
Reuters says that fundamentalist Mormons are pushing for legalization of their polygamous ways: Polygamy, once hidden in the shadows of Utah and Arizona, is breaking …
Obligations
There are those who believe that the United States is obligated to help poor nations because we are “rich”. And there are those who believe …
Immigration Reform? No…
…things are just fine the way they are. Or so Senate Republicans seem to think. What I’d like to know is on earth were they …