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November is the month of the dead — dead leaves, dead saints, the dear, dead friends and neighbors we like to call the...

Jack Kenny November 2, 2009

The Marathon Man

Liana Stanley October 31, 2009

Four countries. Thirty cities. More than 60,000 miles. Almost 50 different flights. Around the world — from Chicago to Chicago — in just...

Rifqa Bary in Danger Again

R. Cort Kirkwood October 30, 2009

Now that Rifqa Bary, the 17-year-old Christian girl who fled her Muslim parents because she feared her father would kill her, has been...

HBO Laughs While Larry David Urinates on Image of Christ

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. October 30, 2009

Try to wrap your head around the hell that would break loose if the following scenario were true: The American lead character on...

Same-sex Marriage on Ballot in Maine

Jack Kenny October 29, 2009

"As Maine goes, so goes the nation," was a popular saying in the days when Maine voted before the rest of the nation...

Obama Pushing Secular UN Anti-Free Speech Resolution

Selwyn Duke October 27, 2009

Those who would accuse Barack Obama of pandering to — if not sympathy for — Islamists have been handed some powerful new ammunition....

Vatican and Traditional Catholics Meet

James Heiser October 26, 2009

According to media reports, Pope Benedict XVI is continuing his efforts to return some disaffected Catholic traditionalists to the “fold.” In the wake...

’60s Comic Artist Mocks Book of Genesis

James Heiser October 22, 2009

That an “artist” would be accused of publicly assaulting the Christian religion is hardly news; even the obscene scribblings on display recently at...

Boy Set on Fire in Brutal Revenge Attack

Selwyn Duke October 21, 2009

In one of the most heinous crimes imaginable, a 15-year-old Florida boy was set ablaze by five other teens in a revenge attack...

Another Honor Killing?

R. Cort Kirkwood October 21, 2009

Police in Peoria, Arizona, just outside Glendale, are searching for a suspect in the attempted murder of his daughter. ...

Former Lesbian Lover Awarded Custody of Non-biological Children

Gregory Hession October 20, 2009

The Montana Supreme Court has awarded custody of two children to the non-biological partner of a former lesbian couple, when the actual adoptive...

Rifqa Bary Must Return to Ohio

R. Cort Kirkwood October 14, 2009

Rifqa Bary, the 17-year-old Christian girl who fled her parents because she feared they would kill her, must return to her home state...

The New Face of Psychiatry

Beverly K. Eakman October 13, 2009

To ensure that psychiatry “permeate every educational activity of national life” and “infiltrate the professional and social activities of [all] people” was a...