The Indian crisis of sex selection abortion is worsening. From the AP story:More and more Indian families with one girl are aborting subsequent pregnancies when prenatal tests show another female is on the way, according to a new study published Tuesday. The decline in the number of girls is more . . . . Continue Reading »
Head global warming hysteric Al Gore does terrible harm to the cause about which he espouses so passionately. Not only is he a supreme hypocrite in the carbon intensive way he lives and the money he makes off the issue—as he accuses his opponents of venal motives—but his beyond . . . . Continue Reading »
In yesterday’s “On the Square” column, Families and False Prophets , I wrote about the effects of . . . what’s the polite word . . . fanciful predictions of the future, such as that famously offered by the radio preacher Harold Camping. Which didn’t come true, forcing . . . . Continue Reading »
Politicians continue to keep sex scandals in the news. But according to sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox , infidelity is not the norm among married men in America: Although the institution of marriage in the United States has fallen on hard times in recent years—for instance, the marriage rate . . . . Continue Reading »
G K Chesterton was a man of colossal intellect and wit, says Robert Douglas-Fairhurst , but his work also reveals a child-like innocence: GK Chesterton was one of the giants of early 20th-century literature. If that description makes him sound less like a human being than a fairy-tale creature, . . . . Continue Reading »
Turn off the SportsCenter and listen up fellows, I’m about to tell you key to being happier : Send your wife to church and the ballpark while you head to a ballet and the latest Monet exhibit. Men who enjoy taking in the ballet or browsing art museums are more likely to be happy with their . . . . Continue Reading »
“Who would actually think they are able to do a job of this significance and this difficulty?” Gayle recently spoke with former Senator Rick Santorum about faith, politics, the presidency, and life. Click here to listen to our fifteen minute discussion or read the . . . . Continue Reading »
The Obama Administration is, unsurprisingly, not happy that Indiana has cut off its special pet Planned Parenthood from Medicaid payments. And it threatens to do something about it. But apparently, that “something” is cutting off the federal share of Medicaid funding to the . . . . Continue Reading »
Reflecting on Kevin Kiley’s article “Long Reads” at Inside Higher Ed, Erin O’Connor writes:Teaching high school for a year at a very interesting little Berkshire boarding school got me onto shared class reading projects–the kids I was teaching were very smart, but, like . . . . Continue Reading »
Gallup has a interesting new poll out. When asked whether “pro life” or “pro choice,” more say the latter than the former. From the poll:Americans are closely divided between those calling themselves “pro-choice” and those who are “pro-life,” now . . . . Continue Reading »
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