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Eugenics Becomes Hot Political Issue in Europe
Eugenics is a system of controlling life through sterilization of unwelcome members of a species or through the destruction of those unwelcome members. In modern parlance, the species is generally...
Positive Benefits: Animal-Visit Therapy in Nursing Homes, Hospitals
More and more nursing homes, hospitals, and other facilities are using programs based on the positive therapeutic effects that animals such as dogs and cats have upon their patients....
People Without Fathers
The children conceived from anonymous clinical sperm donations are growing up and wondering who they really are. ...
French Election Results Explain Why France Is Failing
Socialist political — and moral — values now prevail in France. The long slide of a once great nation continues as it continually repeats failed policies of the past....
Fifty Years After the Port Huron Statement
Fifty years ago, on June 15, 1962, the radical left-wing SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) issued their Port Huron Statement opposing capitalism, eschewing American "ethnocentrism," promoting socialism, federal...
Spanish Debt Problems Grow
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Radjoy obtained a $125 billion bailout for Spanish banks, intending to quiet the fears of investors, but the loan has not worked out quite as...
Twenty-Five Years After Reagan’s Berlin Wall Speech
A quarter of a century ago President Ronald Reagan demanded that Gorbachev "tear down this wall," and the wall came down, but the legacy of socialist and communist influences...
Obama Belonged to Radical Socialist “New Party” in 1996
Stanley Kurtz, in his June 7 article "Obama's Third-Party History" for National Review Online, reports that Barack Obama’s connection to far-left radicals is much more recent that had been...
Maine Churches Use Father’s Day Fundraising to Support Traditional Marriage
The Protect Marriage Maine organization is using Father's Day at churches to raise money to help defend traditional marriage. Two hundred churches in Maine are going to have a special...
Germans Resist Euro Bonds as an Answer to Sovereign Debt Problems
As the PIIGS nations — Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain — face the prospect of default, euro bonds are being considered as a remedy. ...
June 1, 1812: Prelude to the War of 1812
Two hundred years ago, President Madison presented a case for war against Britain in our nation's first declared war. Congress, though, not the President, made the decision: just as...
New Kansas Law Bans Use of Foreign Law
A new Kansas law bans the use of foreign law in judicial proceedings when that law is inconsistent with federal and state constitutional principles. ...
Christians, Muslims, and Buddhists Oppose Abortion in Mauritius
Opposition to abortion is often presented as the uniquely Christian value. It is true that most denominations of Christianity, with Catholicism being prominent in the news lately in this...
The Real Unemployment Rate
The real unemployment rate is remarkably stable and it hovers around 41 percent. Demographically, about 80,000,000 Americans are minors and about 40,000,000 are age 65 or older. That leaves...
Clinton Urges Passage of Law of Sea Treaty
Ronald Reagan did not support the Law of the Sea Treaty over concerns that our nation would be surrendering sovereignty to the United Nations and Senator Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma thinks the...