Fifty years ago, doctors would have been excoriated professionally for assisting a patient’s suicide or performing a non-therapeutic abortion. After all, the Hippocratic Oath proscribed both practices, while the laws of most states made them felonies. (more)
The Defense of Marriage Act has traditionally been criticized as discriminatory toward same-sex couples. But a prominent ethics watchdog said Thursday that the law is, in fact, unconstitutional because it unreasonably exempts same-sex couples from complying with various ethics laws. (more)
Justice Clarence Thomas’s critics are apparently unsatisfied by the invective and personal attacks that have been hurled at Thomas over the years. The seemingly unending stream of baseless attacks proves that they are engaged in a coordinated effort to impugn his credibility and devalue his vote in one of the most important Supreme Court cases of the 21st century. (more)
A woman flinches as she is about to be repeatedly caned for having an extramarital affair. (more)
California is putting itself in position to lead the fight for increased online privacy by trying to pass the country’s first so-called do-not-track law to keep personal data from being grabbed off the Internet. (more)
I often hear those on the right say that the left has stolen the language and that we must take it back. Yet I really don’t see or hear this occurring. In fact, I don’t really think the right is serious about taking back the language. If it were, would conservatives continue using terms like “African-American” and “xenophobia”? (more)
An Ohio school district is in hot water after the mother of a black fifth-grader said her son was assigned to play a slave for a social studies lesson. (more)
Press coverage of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Tex., usually focuses on her megalomania (“‘I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen,’ Jackson-Lee once said”), her race-baiting (like claiming the Tea Party is an offshoot of the Ku Klux Klan, and that the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina was racist), and her amazing ignorance (like not knowing that astronauts landed on the Moon, not Mars; and not knowing what happened in the Vietnam War). (more)
Chief Justice John Roberts proved today that opinions regarding dry legal issues can be brought to life with lively prose and an attention to grammar. (more)
The trend continues. After already exposing two Planned Parenthood clinics in Perth Amboy, New Jersey and Richmond, Virginia willingly helping a pimp cover up the sexual exploitation of under aged girls, today Live Action has released three more videos — from Falls Church, Va. Roanoke, Va. and Charlottesville, Va. — seemingly showing the same thing at different Planned Parenthood locations. (more)
Five months after being catcalled and objectified in the New York Jets locker room, Mexican sports reporter Ines Sainz showed up to Super Bowl media day, reports SportsGrid. (more)
Conservatism is not simply about slashing federal budgets or limiting the size and reach of government. Certainly, on the surface, these are the tactics right-of-center advocates use, but at their root, conservative values embrace the principles of capitalism and competition in order to produce better results on a more efficient budget for the taxpayer — all while staying within the boundaries of the Constitution. (more)
On Wednesday night the president discussed his perspective on the state of the Union. If you were looking for inspiration and innovation, you were likely very disappointed, as you heard the same message as last year — throwing federal money at our problems. The spending proposals were offered under the guise of job creation. However, any worthy economist will tell you that the best way for government to create jobs is to get out of the way of the American spirit. (more)
City University students will have to take a hike if they want a nicotine fix. (more)
The course of my life roughly coincides with the post-Roe v. Wade abortion debate in America. The Supreme Court decision was issued on January 22, 1973, a few days after my first birthday. On January 24th thousands of marchers will rally in Washington, D.C. for the 38th annual March for Life, joining the many millions who have marked this gruesome anniversary in American political life over the course of the last four decades. (more)
Colorado police are looking for Joseph Moron, who is wanted on two warrants accusing of felony stalking, felony violating a restraining order and felony burglary. (more)
In the first real attempt to dismantle the nation’s health care law, two Republican congressmen introduced legislation prohibiting the federal funding of abortions, calling the procedure “accepted bigotry.” (more)
There were heated and sometimes violent debates in early America about whether “we the people” had sufficient virtue and morality to govern ourselves. Newspapers, preachers, and the market square became centers of moral self-examination. Colonists, sensing a break for freedom, wondered aloud if their society was virtuous enough to handle self-government. (more)
