In a landmark decision that will impact the future of gun regulation in the United States, late last month the Supreme Court struck down a handgun ban in Washington, D.C. In District of Columbia etal. v. Heller (No. 07-290) a slim…

Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI), the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, made headlines last month when he broke publicly with the Bush administration and argued that "the mission for us is not to establish a democracy in Iraq, but to…

Will Smith's latest movie, The Pursuit of Happyness, stands as an extended argument underscoring the truth of conservative values. This may sound like an improbable anomaly given the traditional political, ethical, and social allegiances of Hollywood, but the power of…

Last week the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) reported that for the second straight year violent crime was on the rise in the United States. Violent offenses such as murder and robbery were up 3.7 percent in the first half of…

We’ve seen the image: an animated, hairy monkey dancing around in some kind of silly get-up. It might be an orangutan in a baby doll dress and pearls, or a chimp in one of those red, hotel bellhop outfits, serving…

The sixteenth-century Reformed theologian Peter Martyr Vermigli once wrote that “nothing may be found in the world so abject or lowly that it gives no witness to God.” This was such a standard doctrine in the Christian tradition that two…

A battle is raging between competing evangelical groups over proposed legislation which would require cable providers to offer the choice to consumers to subscribe to cable TV on a channel-by-channel basis.

Another Thing for Government to Do?

On the one side, conservative…

Americans have a long habit of morphing every political controversy into a contest of rights. One of the latest examples of this is the “right to die,” or the exercise of a personal decision to end one’s life free of…

The Christian apologist was primarily concerned with the depiction of Aslan, the lion character who functions as an allegory of Jesus Christ: “A human, pantomime, Aslan [would] be to me blasphemy.” He further comments that an animated version would be…

Silk’s team placed a chimp in a situation where it had the option of pulling one of two ropes. Pull the first rope, and the chimp received a bit of food. Pull the second rope, and the chimp received the…