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Signs and Wonders: Prom queen gender confusion

Signs and Wonders: Prom queen gender confusion

Newsworthy |  Say what? Nearly 30 years ago, I taught 10th grade English, and a big decision for me was whether to teach Fitzgerald or Faulkner, since I would likely not be…

NOM Chairman John Eastman

Traditional marriage group to sue IRS

Government |  WASHINGTON—The National Organization for Marriage intends to sue the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) next week amid allegations that the government…

The exterior of Arlene's Flowers, in Richland, Wash.

Florist in gay wedding fight files religious discrimination suit

Religious Liberty |  A Washington state florist sued by the state’s attorney general over her refusal to provide flowers for a same-sex wedding has filed a countersuit alleging…

Tamerlan Tsarnaev

Midday Roundup: Boston bombing investigation targets terror groups

Newsworthy |  Radical links? A former Chechnyan separatist who is now a refugee in the United States has become a key focus in the Boston Marathon bombing…

William Hunter, a Sunday school teacher from southeast Georgia, poses holding a Bible he keeps in his camper while vacationing at Fort McAllister Historic State Park.

Georgia governor orders Bibles back to state park lodging

Religion |  Looking to get away with his family, atheist Ed Buckner rented a cabin at a north Georgia state park, only to find the state-owned cabin had been…

Eladio Gomez uses a U.S. flag to cover him from a light rain during an immigrant rights rally in downtown Dallas.

Signs and Wonders: America’s demographic destiny

Newsworthy |  Brown and grey. The U.S. Census Bureau recently released its latest population projections through the year 2060. Fifty years from now, the U.S. will be only…

A man looks at the electronic ad for Powerball Jackpot of $475 million at the Bluebird Liquor store in Hawthorne, Calif.

California lottery asks residents to ‘believe in something bigger’

Culture |  The ad starts with a soft choral singing of “California Dreaming,” and small white balls falling out of the sky like snowflakes onto sequoia forests, the…

Evening rush hour commuters making their way past the food concessions on an underground concourse inside New York's Penn Station.

Dollars and Sense: Are markets headed toward a healthy correction or ‘irrational exuberance’?

Dollars and Sense |  Big Apple ripe. I spent a couple of days in New York this week, and I can tell you that with the stock markets at all time highs, the Big Apple is…

Mehnaz Afridi

Muslim Journeys: Let’s talk about it … again

Islam |  Mehnaz Afridi, professor of religious studies at Manhattan College in New York, is one of the many librarians and humanities council directors preparing to…

A bottle of the abortion-inducing drug Cytotec.

Florida man charged with murder for tricking girlfriend into abortion

Abortion |  Heartbreaking and treacherous are just two words being used to describe the latest abortion story out of Florida. According to federal authorities,

Superintendent John Deasy

Suspension policy thrown out of L.A. schools

Education |  Los Angeles public schools banned suspensions for misbehaving students on Tuesday, becoming the first district in the state to do so. Instead of being sent…

Developing cloned human embryos

Cloning for the ego, not the science

Science |  This week's announcement that U.S. scientists have created stem cells from cloned human embryos is an achievement we shouldn't be proud of, pro-life medical…

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