February 14, 2013

Overwhelming turnout of young people at March for Life is encouraging

With estimates that 500,000 to 650,000 supporters took part in the 2013 March for Life on Jan. 25, the outlook for the pro-life movement is very good. In 2010, when the number of those taking part in the March for Life started its climb from 250,00...

November 15, 2012

ACLU Eagerly Takes Up Case of Sex Offenders in California

Following the passage of California's Proposition 35 on Nov. 6, the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit to stop the measure against child predators from taking force. The section of Prop. 35 against which the ACLU took issue is that which "requ...

September 16, 2012

The New Definition of Freedom

Someone once famously distilled some two centuries of American debate over individual "rights" into a single sentence: "Your right to extend your fist," he said, "ends about one inch short of the tip of my nose." There's wisdom there, but the wag who...

September 6, 2012

The Two American Exceptionalisms

It's always interesting to see what people learn from their experiences. At the Republican National Convention last week, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice shared a brief glimpse of what it was like to grow up in a deeply segregated Southern...

December 11, 2011

Our First Liberty

More and more, Americans seem apathetic toward the liberties o'er which our Founding Fathers sacrificed their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor. We seem to hold a low opinion of that which millions of Americans before us not only treasured, but paid ...

July 3, 2011

The Church Devalued and Demeaned

Throughout the history of this country, we have always valued institutions based largely on the contribution they make to society.  For example, universities and colleges have been held in high esteem because of the societal gain derived from ed...