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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…

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…

The president of the Southern Baptist Convention has a message regarding the looming Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage: We will not obey. “The Supreme Court of the United States is not the final authority nor is the culture itself,” declared Ronnie Floyd, the elected leader of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. “The Bible is God’s final authority about marriage…

I have to admit, watching liberals divide into two mutually-exclusive camps over the Rachel Dolezal “transracial” nonsense is kinda fun. Samantha Allen of the Daily Beast comes down squarely on the side that attacks Dolezal’s actions as inexcusable, in no small part because it may be “damaging” the push for cultural normalization of transgenderism. As Allen explains in “Dolezal’s Damaging…

On Tuesday’s New Day, CNN’s Michaela Pereira criticized former NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal for her false narrative about her race: “To a lot of people, it’s as though she’s just appropriating a lifestyle, a culture, a racial identity. And the fact is, she’s told a lot of lies about other things.” [video below] Pereira and Chris Cuomo both countered their…