By AP News (Sep 29, 2010)
An ongoing project seeks to preserve and perform music written by victims of the Holocaust and other World War II prisoners.A handful of the songs made their world premiere on Tuesday in Atlanta during "Testaments of the Heart," a program to help... more
By Michael Medved (Sep 29, 2010)
Those of us who love the sport insist that baseball's status as our distinctive "national pastime" means that a visit to any major league game can help place America's present predicament in proper perspective. That's particularly true if your... more
By AP News (Sep 29, 2010)
Members of a small Muslim community in rural upstate New York say the uproar over a planned mosque near ground zero is behind attempts by local officials to shut down the community's graveyard and remove the two bodies buried there.Hans Hass of the... more
By Bill Murchison (Sep 28, 2010)
A nation of 300 million souls -- richest and most powerful in the world, for all its messes and perturbations -- needs a turning radius wide as the future. But you know what -- realization precedes intellectual assent, which precedes needed action.... more
By AP News (Sep 28, 2010)
A new survey of Americans' knowledge of religion found that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons outperformed Protestants and Roman Catholics in answering questions about major religions, while many respondents could not correctly give the most... more
By AP News (Sep 28, 2010)
A new survey of Americans' knowledge of religion found that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons outperformed Protestants and Roman Catholics in answering questions about major religions, while many respondents could not correctly give the most... more
By Rebecca Hagelin (Sep 28, 2010)
A recent survey suggests that Americans are more accepting than ever of homosexual “families”. Although only about a third of Americans consider homosexual couples with no children to be a family, 68% say homosexual couples with children do... more
By Caroline Glick (Sep 27, 2010)
Following the example of its counterparts in the West, for decades the Israeli Left has carefully cultivated its image as the fun side of the political divide.
In a thousand different ways, the public was told that the Left is on the side of... more
By Bruce Bialosky (Sep 27, 2010)
Whenever June comes around, summer reading lists are sure to follow. They appear from a variety of sources, each of which wishes to enlighten us on how to best spend our afternoons at the beach and our lazy summer evenings. Most lists include a... more
By Mario Diaz (Sep 24, 2010)
Now that several days have passed since President Obama “forgot” the Creator while quoting the Declaration of Independence in his speech before the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (see video here), and my blood pressure is back down from 190/110,... more
By Chuck Colson (Sep 24, 2010)
It was a voice vote that silenced the voice of the church for generations.
In 1954, then-Senator Lyndon Johnson was in the middle of a particularly bruising re-election battle. Two nonprofit groups had been especially troublesome to the senator,... more
By AP News (Sep 22, 2010)
Roman Catholic leaders in Iowa are urging voters to back a constitutional convention, saying the rare gathering would be the quickest way to overturn the court ruling that legalized gay marriage in the state.The Iowa Catholic Conference, which... more
By AP News (Sep 22, 2010)
After the Mediterranean climate and sandy soil, winemaker Ray Falkner said his greatest asset is the view of rolling vine-covered hills from the top of his property in Southern California.Confident the Temecula Valley wine-grape region's strict... more
By Marybeth Hicks (Sep 22, 2010)
It says something — draw your own conclusions — when the president’s attendance at church makes national headlines.
There was a time when the banner, “President and family attend Sunday services” would have been akin to “President eats jelly on... more
By Harry R. Jackson, Jr. (Sep 22, 2010)
Last week in Washington was amazing! Thousands of the most articulate and well-dressed African Americans in the nation descended on our city. These dear people were the Congressional Black Caucus’ (CBC) faithful followers, admiring friends, or... more
By Harry R. Jackson, Jr. (Sep 22, 2010)
Last week in Washington was amazing! Thousands of the most articulate and well-dressed African Americans in the nation descended on our city. These dear people were the Congressional Black Caucus’ (CBC) faithful followers, admiring friends, or... more
By Bill Murchison (Sep 21, 2010)
Assuming, no doubt, our anxious world could use a good laugh, Stephen Hawking undertakes to provide one. He says the universe created itself.The theory itself isn't the joke. The joke is the dogged persistence of atheists trying in the face of... more
By Rebecca Hagelin (Sep 21, 2010)
"I don't take my children to church," the young woman said. "I'll let them choose for themselves what to believe in, when they're older."
Her casual approach to her children's religious involvement will surely affect her children's lives. Even... more
By Allen Hunt (Sep 20, 2010)
Superman had his Bizarro World. You and I now have Islamerica. Where up is down, left is right, hot is cold, and the First Amendment is getting a thorough scrubbing and security check. After all, freedom of speech is just so old. It was written so... more
By Jillian Bandes (Sep 20, 2010)
MLK, Glenn Beck, and racism: these themes are still echoing long after the conclusion of Beck's monumental rally on the anniversary of King's "I Have A Dream" speech last month.
Dr. Alveda King, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s niece, has been under... more
By Austin Hill (Sep 19, 2010)
“The bottom line is this – if the Koran is burned, our troops will be in greater danger. It’s that simple…”
That remark came from a certain military officer (an officer who will remain unnamed here), during a special... more
By Alan Sears (Sep 17, 2010)
As the often heated, sometimes bitter debates that characterized the Constitutional Convention roared back and forth, month after month, throughout the long summer of 1787, Benjamin Franklin found himself gazing more and more at the painted image... more
By Cliff May (Sep 16, 2010)
We Americans should be ashamed! What an intolerant, bigoted, hateful lot we are! Or so we are being told by our political and media elites. Lawrence Wright, in the New Yorker- yes, the New Yorker -- announces: "Culture wars are currently being waged... more
By AP News (Sep 16, 2010)
A soft-spoken 14-year-old's nose piercing has landed her a suspension from school and forced her into the middle of a fight over her First Amendment right to exercise her religion.Ariana Iacono says she just wants to be a normal teenager at Clayton... more
By AP News (Sep 15, 2010)
A handful of Roman Catholic convents are contradicting the decades-long slide in the number of women choosing to devote their lives to the sisterhood. And at least two of them are doing it by sticking to tradition, including the wearing of... more
