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Adult stem cells have shown positive results in helping cure diseases. Embryonic stem cells have not. So why the clamor for using embryonic stem...

Pope Benedict XVI lectured House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the "dignity of human life" at a private meeting at the Vatican on Wednesday, a decidedly...

It’s increasingly difficult for me to escape the conclusion that the very process of in-vitro fertilization represents a rejection of the natural...

The dangers of immunizing corporations from the consequences of wrongdoing are evident in the current peanut scandal. Ensuring accountability...

True conservatism is a disposition, not an ideology. It doesn’t seek to reinvent man and his world—its concerns are about what T.S. Eliot called...

It is hard to imagine but this one massive spending bill, coming in at $787 billion, is more than twice the total amount the United States spent to...

Science fiction is about to become fact, and the nightmare scenarios of writers such as Aldous Huxley may soon be realized.

Rarely does a lively morning pass that I don’t gaze upon my children at the kitchen table and silently lament Washington’s economic...

What’s the state of the republic—and its citizens—this Presidents’ Day 2009? It is a state of deep confusion. Here are some polls to ponder, as...

If you think 2008 was expensive, wait until you see what President Obama’s band has in store for us. The band of policy players that President...

Given David Ogden's high visibility in defense of pornography, his nomination sends a clear and unmistakable message. The pornography business...

Despite the global hoopla celebrating Darwin's theories on his 200th birthday, Darwin’s legacy – and full acceptance of his theory – is far from...

While we still debate whether Lincoln himself was a racist, little mention is made of the pernicious social consequences of Darwinism and even less...

Over half of all wage earners pay no federal income tax yet they, too, are assuming someone else is going to pay their way. In this respect,...

What we need is a prudent, not a panicky response to the economic downturn, especially not one that enables government to go where it doesn’t...