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When Tina was 28, she was in a long-term committed relationship and building a career. Then, unexpectedly, she found herself pregnant. When she chose to have an abortion, a decision she regrets to this day, she learned, in her words, that “the pro-choice movement cares very little about the mother.” “When I and my boyfriend of about 2 years at…

(CNN) The remarkable discovery, announced this week, of ripples in the space-time fabric of the universe rocked the world of science – and the world of religion. Touted as evidence for inflation (a faster-than-the-speed-of-light expansion of our universe), the new discovery of traces of gravity waves affirms scientific concepts in the fields of cosmology, general relativity, and particle physics. The new…

Though Barack Obama was not in San Francisco on July 1, he was just as culpable in the murder of 31 year old Katie Steinle as the man who pulled the trigger: a five-time deported illegal with seven prior felony convictions. It is the policy of this administration to ignore US immigration policy. One doesn’t know the reasons for this…

The killing of Kathryn Steinle at the hands of an often deported Mexican criminal has reignited fierce criticism of the Democrats’ deportation policies, The Washington Times reported. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte has blasted the Obama administration for making federal requests to detain illegal immigrants into “something voluntary” and “releasing criminals back onto the streets.” “This administration is not…

The family of a California woman who was allegedly shot dead by an illegal Mexican immigrant have criticized officials who didn’t hand him over after he was jailed just months before the attack. Grieving relatives of Kathryn Steinle, 32, who was shot dead on San Francisco’s Pier 14 Thursday night, made the comments in light of revelations that alleged killer…

Johnnie Moore wrote his first book, What Am I Supposed to Do with My Life?, based on his experiences working with college students as vice president of Liberty University. At Liberty, Moore became friends with TV producer Mark Burnett, who asked Moore to move to California to be his chief of staff. We talked about that change in our last…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece and its membership in Europe’s joint currency faced an uncertain future Monday, with the country under pressure to restart bailout talks with creditors as soon as possible after Greeks resoundingly rejected the notion of more austerity in exchange for aid. With Greek banks running out of cash and facing the danger of collapse within days…

US blocks attempts by Arab allies to fly heavy weapons directly to Kurds to fight Islamic State By Con Coughlin, Defence Editor – The Telegraph Middle East allies accuse Barack Obama and David Cameron of failing to show strategic leadership in fight against Isil, as MPs could be given vote on whether to bomb Syria The United States has blocked…

Is Polygamy on the Right Side of History? By Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review    — July 1, 2015 It should by now be abundantly clear that the laziest cases against the inevitability of polygamy are starting to push up the daisies. Before Justice Kennedy decided to appoint himself the nation’s most cherished arbiter of dark magic and inscrutable…

The First Amendment Center has conducted an annual national survey since 1997 of American attitudes toward the First Amendment. The “State of the First Amendment: 2014” is the seventeenth survey in this series. This year’s annual survey repeats some of the questions that have been administered since 1997 and includes some new questions as well.

I loved reading the If You Give a Mouse a Cookie books to my daughter. The somewhat Aesopian theme is that if you give the mouse what it wants – a cookie – it will just want more: a glass of milk, a straw, etc. The story came to mind last week, a week that began with many vowing to…