Freedom and Progress
For more than two centuries, freedom has been the catchword of Western Civilization. What began as an abstraction from the pens of Locke,...
Culture
The Standards of Our Standard
On our first day in school, most of us stood beside our desk, put our little hand over our heart, and repeated (with...
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The America We Knew and Loved
A well-used copy of Consumer Reports dated March 2009 caught my eye in the doctor’s reception area. The cover story: “Great old appliances.”...
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Consolations of Bachelorhood on Father’s Day
“Marriage has many difficulties, but celibacy has no pleasures,” said Samuel Johnson. Whether Johnson was exaggerating or was right on the bull’s eye,...
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Same-sex Benefits Sidestep the Law
President Barack Obama on June 17 issued a presidential memorandum that extended a number of benefits to same-sex partners of federal workers. The...
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Putting Hollywood in the Hallowed
First there were “inclusive language” Bibles, which extended a bizarre form of chivalry to feminists with lexical peculiarities such as “Our Mother/Father who...
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Home Bible Study Threatened in Bonito, Calif.
If the Chinese need any help with their crackdown on the Falun Gong religious group, perhaps they should try to recruit San Diego...
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A Primer on the Illuminati
Type?? “Illuminati” into an Internet search engine and you will wind up with an impossible aggregation too numerous and contradictory to be useful....
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Obama’s Proclamation of Gay Pride Month
Forgive us for being a bit late in reporting this, but this entire month has been dedicated to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and...
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Schooling in the Third Millennium: Bible Out, Sodom In
If anyone needs more evidence as to how we live in a topsy-turvy age of moral turpitude, two recent news stories provide it....
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New Hampshire Climbs on “Gay” Marriage Bandwagon
New Hampshire Governor John Lynch on June 3 signed legislation establishing marriage “regardless of gender” in the the Granite State, immediately after both...
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13-Year-Old Cancer Victim & Parental Rights
Every so often there is a case in which parents refuse to submit their child to medical treatment, citing religious beliefs. The most...
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Adding “Sexual Orientation” to Hate-crime Statutes
It’s ironic that secularists will accuse traditionalists of being hung up on sex, when they are the ones who cannot stop talking about...
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California’s High Court Upholds Proposition 8
In a 6-1 ruling yesterday, the California Supreme Court voted to uphold Proposition 8, which amended the state’s constitution so as to define...
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Notre Dame: Tragedy and Hope
At the University of Notre Dame, opposition to the granting of an honorary Doctor of Laws degree to commencement speaker Barack Obama, president...
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