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Dorm rooms, shower baskets, Frisbees flying through a sun-streaked courtyards — these are traditional iconic images of a college school year's kickoff. Today's college students, however, might also add "sensitivity seminars" and warnings about the prevalence of sexual assault as one of the rites of
Abortion
We have come a long way since the 2001 controversy over embryonic stem cell research. Back then, we witnessed heated public debates over whether such research should be federally funded: proponents pointed to possible cures for horrific diseases; opponents pointed to the sanctity of all human life and the danger
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"Knowledge is power," Sir Francis Bacon famously said. Although he may have had a more pragmatic, empirical approach in mind, Bacon's words bear repeating in our own time, and especially as the school year begins. Why does the importance of knowledge need stressing in schools? Aren&
Barack Obama
After nearly eight years of the East Wing's politics of mope and complain, it's refreshing to see a presidential candidate's spouse who is always smiling. Candy Carson — wife of GOP 2016 hopeful Dr. Ben Carson, mother of three sons, and grandmother of two — is
Democrat
Brace yourselves: Attorneys at America's largest law firms are far to the left of the American political center. That's the unsurprising news from a study released by a trio of political scientists, who reviewed decades' worth of data on political contributions by hundreds of thousands
black lives matter
Black lives matter, unless you're Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. The left is renewing its venomous, racist attacks on Thomas in the aftermath of his dissent in the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling for gay marriage. Actor George Takei smeared Thomas as a "clown in black
First Amendment
"Free speech," though one of the more ubiquitous legal terms du jour, is also widely misunderstood. There are a number of mentalities behind this ignorance, perhaps none so simply observed as in the title of the famously liberal writer Nat Hentoff's book on the subject: "
Abortion
National Review magazine had Carly Fiorina on its cover recently, with the headline "Carly the Communicator." The lead story featured example after example of Fiorina's clear and articulate explanations of conservative positions winning over audiences — including those, such as the hosts of "The View,"
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