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Evangelicals Need Not Apply?

Just a few days ago, the Air Force announced that it had withdrawn a set of newly-issued guidelines that allowed chaplains to evangelize non-affiliated Air Force personnel. The Associated Press reported that the Air Force rescinded the guidelines in ...

October 21, 2005

Shifting Ground on the Abortion Issue?

Columnist Richard Cohen of The Washington Post now admits that he has grave doubts about abortion. In a fascinating opinion column published in today's edition of the Post, Cohen recounts his experience of arranging an abortion for a friend of a frie ...

October 20, 2005

Young Americans — A Generation of Doped-Up Kids

The use of psychotropic drugs, sleeping pills, and other pharmaceuticals among the very young continues to expand. Americans use 90% of all Ritalin prescribed throughout the world. Increasing numbers of children are taking powerful drugs. Are we c ...

October 20, 2005

Scared Yet? Britons Seek Fetus-Derived Treatments

From The Independent [London]: Britons desperate to halt the ageing process are being injected with the stem cells of aborted foetuses at a clinic that charges £15,000 for a controversial new cosmetic treatment. Despite warnings from biologists in th ...

October 19, 2005

Why Dads Matter – James Q. Wilson on Boys Without Fathers

In today's commentary, "The Ties That No Longer Bind? Marriage and the Virtue of Loyalty," I look at James Q. Wilson's article published in the current issue of In Character. Wilson makes a compelling argument for the essential link between loyalty a ...

October 19, 2005

Another Very Bad Idea

Alan Cooperman of The Washington Post reports Wednesday that the federal government will pay for the rebuilding of "parochial schools, nursing homes and similar religious institutions," but not for the rebuilding of church buildings used for worship. ...

October 19, 2005

A “Duty” to Abort? You Have Been Warned

Patricia E. Bauer, a former reporter and bureau chief for The Washington Post, warns that prenatal testing techniques have shifted the medical question from an ability to abort babies judged to be defective to a duty to abort. She's right of course, ...

October 18, 2005

Will New Tribes Mission Personnel Be Evicted from Venezuela?

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has announced plans to evict all New Tribes Mission personnel from the South American nation, describing the missionary group as "a true imperialist infiltration that makes me ashamed." According to the BBC: "The New ...

October 17, 2005

So Much for Conscience in Wisconsin

Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle has vetoed a bill that would have expanded that state's medical conscience clause to allow medical professionals to "opt out" of participating in certain medical procedures such as removing a patient's feeding tube or usi ...

October 17, 2005

What is the Stem Cell Debate Really About?

Two possible breakthroughs in human stem cell research were announced Sunday in Nature, one of the world's most respected scientific journals. In "'Ethical' Routes to Stem Cells highlight Political Divide," Erika Check and Carina Dennis report that s ...

October 17, 2005