Morality Integral to Freedom

Tomorrow we'll celebrate our nation's 243rd birthday. The founders threw off the chains of tyranny from King George and introduced the idea of the rule of law and self-government. And they appealed to God. As a result we have incredible political, religious and...

LGBT Summer Reading

School is out and summer reading is in. And parents, what better place to take your kids for some new books than the public library? While there are a lot of great resources there, you might want to walk closely with your grade schooler through the children's book...

Court Upholds Cross

The U.S. Supreme Court handed down an important ruling that upheld the free speech and religious freedom rights of Bladensburg Maryland residents. The city had a cross in the public place that memorialized WW I veterans, but the American Humanist Association said it...

Too Much News

A survey last year found that most Americans are overwhelmed by all the news. According to a survey by the Pew Research Center 68 percent of Americans feel “overwhelmed by the amount of news there is." Now, there's always been a lot of news, but what we have today are...

China Harvests Organs

A new independent report out of London revealed that that the Chinese government is targeting religious minorities and harvesting their organs. The report says that members of the outlawed group Falun Gong “were used for forced organ harvesting.” Now Falun Gong is a...

Marsy’s Law Struck Down

The Kentucky Supreme Court struck down Marsy's Law. This was the constitutional amendment that shored up rights for crime victims. It updated our laws to include the right to be notified of court proceedings and whether a convicted criminal has been let out on parole....

Teen Vogue Legitimizes Prostitution

Teen Vogue recently ran a column entitled "Why Sex Work is Real Work.” Today, "sex work" is used synonymously with prostitution and the story uplifts it as a legitimate line of work. So how does a story like this get into a magazine targeted toward 13-year-old girls?...

Reparations for Slavery

Democrats in Congress held a hearing on whether to set up a commission to study and respond to the question of reparations for slavery. A few Democratic presidential candidates appear to favor the idea. But a recent Fox News poll found that 60 percent of Americans...

Shutting Down Coal-Fired Plants

Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is on a mission to make America green. He pledged $500 million to the Beyond Carbon initiative and their goal is to “phase out every last U.S. coal-fired power plant by 2030." The group plans to pass laws that promotes renewable...

Depravity of Man

British journalist and author Malcolm Muggeridge once said, "The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact." If you don't believe in the depravity of man—which simply means that our...

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