A Washington floral artist says she will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a decision Thursday by the state’s high court that concluded that the government can force her—and, by extension, other Washingtonians—to create artistic expression and participate in events with which they disagree.   Related Case: State of Washington v. Arlene’s Flowers | Ingersoll... Continue Reading

These pernicious ideas have grown in strength since Hutchins wrote in 1951. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that the “four horsemen of the philosophical apocalypse” now permeate most public and private schools.   According to Hutchins, these four horsemen were harbingers of “the disintegration of the West.”   Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899-1977) was the dean of... Continue Reading

We all want to alleviate the distress of children who feel like they do not fit in. Well-meaning parents caught up by the glorification of gender transitions in popular culture are risking significant psychological and physical damage to their children. Warm parenting is a far safer option. According to the Boy Scout Law, Scouts are... Continue Reading

So far this year, legislators in Iowa, Virginia, New Jersey, and Florida have introduced 20-week abortion bans. Lawmakers in four states—Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, and Rhode Island—have filed bills that would ban dismemberment abortions. And the Kentucky and Iowa legislatures will consider bills to defund abortion giant Planned Parenthood.    (WNS)–Pro-life leaders say a nationwide surge... Continue Reading

With Dr. Ben Carson’s confirmation nearly at hand, a more “holistic” approach to investing in human capital, as Dr. Carson put it, should be on the horizon—and it should lead to greater cooperative efforts between HUD and these faith-based programs.   A homeless man, woman, or child needs a bed, a roof, a meal—and typically... Continue Reading

Researchers at the University of Calgary have released a study extolling assisted suicide’s cost benefits: “If Canadians adopt medical assistance in dying in a manner and extent similar to those of the Netherlands and Belgium, we can expect a reduction in healthcare spending in the range of tens of millions of dollars per year.” The... Continue Reading

While Planned Parenthood facilities’ websites and voicemails state they provide prenatal care, employees turned away the activists seeking those appointments. “No Planned Parenthood does prenatal care, hon,” a worker at an Albany, N.Y., facility said. Live Action said it reached out to 97 separate Planned Parenthood facilities across the country, and only found five willing... Continue Reading

The change in policy will force all Scout troops to include transgender girls, that is, girls who are struggling with gender dysphoria (feeling one’s emotional and psychological identity as male or female to be opposite to one’s biological sex). The BSA has recently been accused of “discrimination” for refusing to include girls who identify as... Continue Reading

“Yazidis and Christians have been among the primary targets of the ongoing genocide being carried out by IS in Iraq and Syria, with the United Nations and other major organizations recognizing the extreme human rights abuses religious minorities are suffering there.”   A young Yazidi woman, who has been testifying before the world of her... Continue Reading

“I appreciate Maran’s candor in this article. I do think it is revealing. I suspect that many of those who marched for legal gay marriage in our country weren’t really that concerned about adding traditional marriage norms to gay relationships—norms of permanence, covenant, fidelity, etc.”   Meredith Maran had an interesting essay in The New... Continue Reading