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An Interesting Trend — Costs Driving Many Middle-Class Familes From Cities

The Washington Post reports that the high price of housing is driving many middle-class families from major American cities -- and even from some suburbs. Reporter John Pomfret sets out the picture: Between 2000 and 2004, all eight metropolitan reg ...

March 21, 2006

The Plight of Black Men — Another Warning

The New York Times reports that black men are becoming more and more alienated from the mainstream culture. The trends related to black men are moving downward even as other groups are moving more into the mainstream. There's something very different ...

March 20, 2006

Afghan Man to Be Executed for Converting to Christianity?

While pondering the stakes involved in the struggle for religious liberty around the world, consider this report published in today's edition of USA Today: A man in Afghanistan is being prosecuted in a Kabul court and could be sentenced to death aft ...

March 20, 2006

Intellectual Hypocrisy — The Case of Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is the current intellectual of record for the far Left. Now that Edward Said and Susan Sontag are dead, Chomsky reigns virtually supreme among the leftist intelligensia. His positions on most issues are very predictable. He has been an a ...

March 20, 2006

Playing With Knives — A Growing Problem

Something has gone wrong in a society that must come to grips with a growing problem of self-mutilation. Some now estimate that as many as 2 million Americans -- most of them very young -- are cutting themselves. Rachel Houston reports on the issue ...

March 20, 2006

Crisis in Darfur — Nicholas Kristof Has Plan

Columnist Nicholas D. Kristof of The New York Times has offered penetrating analysis of the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan. Most recently, he has reported on the spread of the crisis to neighboring Chad. This is a human rights crisis of tremend ...

March 20, 2006

On The O’Reilly Factor Tonight

I will discuss the Christian understanding of Islam on Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor tonight, broadcast at 8:00 p.m. EST and rebroadcast at 11:00 p.m. and 2:00 a.m. The background to the discussion will be recent statements by Franklin Graham and Pa ...

March 17, 2006

Boy Scouts Under Fire, Again

The Boy Scouts have been under sustained attack for the organization's policies that, for example, require some belief in God for its members and exclude homosexuals from serving as scouting leaders. In a recent dust-up, the Scouts lost the use of ...

March 17, 2006

Scalia Speaks, Again

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia recently spoke at the New England School of Law. As expected he was ready with a raft of quotable quotes, all pointing to the crisis of the American judiciary -- which is a crisis of constitutional governmen ...

March 17, 2006

Was George Washington a Deist?

I know this question has been bugging some of you for years -- was George Washington a Deist? Some want to present him as an evangelical churchman (not an easy task) and others want to claim him as the father of American secularism (an even greater c ...

March 16, 2006