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What About Holding People Responsible?

by Keith Koffler April 22, 2013

You could be excused for being a terrorist mastermind in Grozny – the capital of Chechnya – and sleeping rather soundly tonight.
Glaringly omitted from President Obama’s remarks Friday evening after the capture of the second terrorist was any mention…

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To Whom Do Children Belong?

by Melissa Moschella April 22, 2013

Children belong not to parents, but to the whole community. So claimed Melissa Harris-Perry in a recent MSNBC promo spot that has sparked heated controversy.
Harris-Perry argued that if we are going to start investing adequately in our public schools,…

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Arrested Development

by Jenny Uebbing April 22, 2013

Somewhere post-baby number 2 in year number 3 of ’till death do us part, it occurred to me that I was perhaps a tad preoccupied with my offspring, to the detriment of my beloved spouse. Now I don’t mean that…

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Obama’s Bogus Equality

by Russell Shaw April 21, 2013

As all the world surely knows by now, “equality” is the ideological key to President Obama’s domestic policies. That all people are created equal, the president says, is the “most evident of truths.” Whether that’s so or not, it is…

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The Six Strangest New Testament Verses

by Stephen Beale April 18, 2013

When we think of strange verses in the New Testament, the fantastic visions of Revelation immediately leap to mind. But Revelation isn’t the only place. From weird words used by St. Paul to the trance of St. Peter, here are…

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A Conversation About Abortion #Gosnell #Cuomo

by Greg Pfundstein April 17, 2013

We need to have a conversation about abortion.
Something big happened last Friday. In response to the anemic media coverage on the trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell, and at the prompting of Kirsten Powers’ powerful USAToday editorial, hundreds of thousands…

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Senseless Act of Violence

by Sheila Liaugminas April 17, 2013

Acts of violence never make sense, no matter how this one turns out to be explained. Every one of these random attacks assaults our sensibilities and rattles whatever semblence of security we still have in our daily lives. We can’t…

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The Road to Same Sex Marriage

by Robert R. Reilly April 17, 2013

Ineluctably, the issue of “gay” rights is about far more than sexual practices. It is, as lesbian advocate Paula Ettelbrick proclaimed, about “transforming the very fabric of society … [and] radically reordering society’s views of reality”.
Since how we perceive…

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Is Christianity Homophobic?

by Pat Buchanan April 16, 2013

That “loving Jesus means hating gay people” is “proclaimed in Christian churches and on Christian television and radio broadcasts.”
So declares Dan Savage in his review of Jeff Chu’s “Does Jesus Really Love Me: A Gay Christian’s Pilgrimage in Search…

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Why Gregorian Chant Rocks

by Judy Keane April 15, 2013

Today we can scarcely go to a clothing store, a health club or even a gas station without being besieged by a variety of thumping, agitating and jarring music blasting from speakers above.  While I appreciate a variety of music,…

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