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Citing a “higher calling” as the reason for her resignation, Palin left her post with 16 months remaining in her term.

For decades, this barbarism has been hidden from public view. But finally, prison officials and politicians are talking about it and doing...

This sense of crisis and the need for definition sets the stage for this book and its central thesis--that the only way out of our present cultural...

At the same time that the House was debating its climate change bill, other countries were having second thoughts about their already enacted...

“If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” But men aren’t angels, and neither are their governments. Thus, the need for prudence.

More often than not, our culture today emphasizes our personal rights—our liberties. The Founding Fathers chose the side of responsibility.

The people of South Carolina now look to their governor's mansion with a sense of dread and embarrassment.

The whole world now knows the name of one young woman who has become a martyr for the cause of freedom in Iran. The name Neda, by the way, means...

Does God intend us to merely listen to music—or to sing ourselves? It’s much easier to pop a CD in the player.

Richard Dawkins, perhaps the world's most famous living atheist, is setting up a summer camp intended to help children and teenagers adopt atheism.

As the new documentary "Lines that Divide" explains, adult stem cells don't profit the drug companies like embryonic stem cells do, despite the...

If we are, as some scientists believe, “wired for music,” then babies are ideal test subjects since their reactions are, by definition,...

The Pink Swastika authors, Scott Lively and Kevin Abrams, would have us believe that homosexuality was the driving force behind the rise of...

The late Michael Jackson erased the line between insanity and genius—and blurred many other distinctions in the course of his extraordinary career....

In the past 24 hours since Governor Mark Sanford admitted his affair, I’ve run the gamut of emotions: sadness, depression, anger, and most of all,...