Republicans for religious freedom Ten years ago, Republicans in Congress passed a major law to protect the right of Muslims to establish mosques even where such a building might be unwelcome. Yes, they did. They just may not have ...
When is it ‘bigoted’ to criticize religion? When it comes to the proposed Islamic center near ground zero, I subscribe to President Barack Obama’s position: “Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this coun...
What was I going to say? The Daily Telegraph brings welcome news — “Old age begins at 27 as mental powers start to decline, scientists find.” It seems that the University of Virginia conducted mental acuity tests on 2,000...
Giving birth to immigration fears The campaign against birthright citizenship has been on a roll. Last month, it won the endorsement of South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, long seen as a moderate on immigration. He favo...
Time for a divorce In the 1500s, a pestering theologian instituted something called the Marriage Ordinance in Geneva, which made “state registration and church consecration” a dual requirement of matrimony. We have ...
A Rhee of hope? Though I’ve seen evidence to the contrary, experts assure me that children are the nation’s most precious natural resource. Logic, then, says that teaching is the most important profession in the ...
Looking to avert disaster The outpouring of tens of thousands of classified military documents by WikiLeaks is not precisely comparable to the publication of the Pentagon Papers — but in at least one crucial respect, it ma...
Show us the money So often are the certitudes and pronouncements of the chattering class simply mistaken that they must always be treated with deep skepticism. That is especially true when anything important is at ...
Stuck in Afghanistan There is good news about Afghanistan. No, really. It comes from Jonathan Alter, Newsweek columnist and author of the book “The Promise: President Obama, Year One.” He thinks the president is firml...
U.S. Cuba policy: A 50-year failure? After a 134-day hunger strike, Guillermo Farinas’ waist is so small that a dog collar could fit around it. This living skeleton (who has survived this long only because he has taken nutrients intr...
