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With so many people flowing over the borders of our vast nation, it is sometimes difficult to quantify — or even comprehend – how many people we’re absorbing each year, and from where. First a little interesting perspective. Despite the vast size of our nation, and our concern about exactly who is coming over our borders, let’s first say it…

When we look at the failures in the black community today, there seem to be lots of “activists” who want to tell us the problem lies in poor police relations — militant policing and presence. Recently, I was on NPR’s Diane Rehm Show. The issue was about the black community and the other guests ranted on about everything other than…

Last Wednesday evening, a 21-year-old white supremacist shot and killed nine black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., in one of the most horrific terrorist attacks of recent years. Because of where it happened — and why — it represented an assault not only on a group of people, but on American history itself. In consequence, both the grief and the condemnations…

Anyone who has studied the history of science knows that scientists are not immune to the non-rational dynamics of the herd. A December 18, 2009 Washington Post poll, released on the final day of the ill-fated Copenhagen climate summit, reported “four in ten Americans now saying that they place little or no trust in what scientists have to say about the…

A civilized society’s first line of defense is not the law, police and courts but customs, traditions, rules of etiquette and moral values. These behavioral norms — mostly transmitted by example, word of mouth and religious teachings — represent a body of wisdom distilled over the ages through experience and trial and error. They include important thou-shalt-nots, such as thou…

The young man who, on Wednesday evening of this week, shot nine black parishioners of Charleston’s Emmanuel AME Church, was motivated by pronounced racial animus.Explaining to the murdered why he was taking their lives, he told them stupidly, “I have to do it. You rape our women, and you are taking over our country. And you have to go.” He…

Actually, President Obama, Mass Killings Aren’t Uncommon In Other Countries  President Barack Obama responded to the horrific shooting at a historic black church in Charleston that left nine dead with an earnest statement—well, other than that contention that was completely untrue. Once again, innocent people were killed in part because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands…

When Kathryn Kerns asked 30 teens and preteens to come to her laboratory and talk about their parents, many of their dads scored low on a standard yardstick her research team was using to evaluate the parent-child bond. The children described rich, warm relationships with their fathers, however, says Dr. Kerns, a professor of psychological sciences at Kent State University…

WASHINGTON — The future of same-sex marriage and President Obama’s health care law hang in the balance as the Supreme Court’s 2014 term draws rapidly to a close this month. But those aren’t the only big issues on the justices’ plate. Free speech and fair elections. Religious liberty and racial discrimination. Clean air and capital punishment. All await rulings over…

IT’S MORE THAN MARRIAGE: What’s really at risk if the Supreme Court redefines a millennia-old institution? By the end of June, the United States Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, a case challenging the constitutionality of state laws that define marriage as between one man and one woman. Depending on the Court’s ruling, the…

Meet Monifa Sterling Lance Corporal (LCpl) Monifa Sterling is a Marine who was stationed at Camp Lejune in North Carolina. As a devout Christian, one of LCpl Sterling’s favorite Bible verses is “No weapon formed against you shall prosper” (Isaiah 54:17). In May 2013, she printed a personalized version of the scripture and taped it up in three places in…