I've been forcefully denouncing libertarianism for a few years now. It took me some time to connect the dots--and let ...

Here is how one 21-year-old Texas woman reportedly thinks we should solve poverty in America: Give welfare ...

"How can we ever agree, Like the rest of the world, We grow farther apart. I swear you don't listen to ...

"You lie!" shouted Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) at President Obama, in what Bill Maher compared to an episode of Tourette ...

More on Human Nature, and the Free-Rider Problem "Why are people such assholes?" Someone asked me the other day. I replied, "Because ...

It's really nice to be able to discuss disagreements about political philosophy without being called a liar, lunatic, thief ...

Frankly, I am disturbed by late-term abortions. As I wrote several years ago (previous article "The Question of Sentience"), I think it's entirely arbitrary that we draw the moral ...

The sky is falling. Or so it would seem, listening to the wails of outrage from frequent travelers for whom ...

Nothing is more basic to human liberty than the ability to designate one's choice of a partner to be recognized under the law. Nothing ...

(AP) Forget about passing notes in study hall; some teens are now using their cell phones to flirt and send nude pictures of themselves. The instant text, picture and ...

Apparently in his heart of hearts, Eliot Spitzer agrees with my position that people should have the right to pay for sex. But he built a political career on locking ...

Gamophobia - fear of marriage - is a little-used term to mark a still less acknowledged concept. I hold my hands up to it, not waving but drowning under the ...

In a position paper, a leading American medical association has endorsed the medicinal use of marijuana, called for more studies of its medical uses, and urged the US government to ...

Addressing scientists Feb. 15, 2008 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dietram Scheufele, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of life sciences communication, presented ...

On WorldChanging, normally a site I have a great deal of respect for, an article appeared by Erica Barnett which reeked of white liberal elitist ...

Social humiliation of women who look too attractive has now spread from German buses (previous post) to U.S. planes. Southwest Airlines (which founder Herb Kelleher had ironically dubbed "the ...

DOJ Targets Adult Social Networking From the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force: The federal government is proposing regulations that would effectively kill adult social-networking sites. This is being done under ...

One in four adults say they read no books at all in the past year, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll released Tuesday. Of those who did read, women and ...

ABUJA (Reuters) - An amateur video of a northern Nigerian film actress in a sex scene has caused a public outcry in the Muslim north, prompting a movie industry body ...

BEIJING (AFP) - Tibetan living Buddhas are no longer allowed to be reincarnated without permission from the atheist Chinese government, state media reported Friday. The new rules are "an ...

Even though some formulas use nutrients found in breast milk, city doctors say research proves the natural way is best. "Decrease in infections, upper respiratory, ear," said ...

(CBS/AP) Pharmacists have sued Washington state over a new regulation that requires them to sell emergency contraception, also known as the morning-after pill. In a lawsuit filed in federal court ...

Think Outside the Bottle A new activist organization to raise awareness of worldwide water issues. From their front page: The United Nations warns us that by 2025, two-thirds of the world’s ...

AS the stories piled up, I began to pray with renewed vigor, but it felt like I wasn't connecting to God. I started to feel silly even trying. ...

Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry has ordered the controversial religious police in the conservative Wahhabi kingdom to stop detaining or interrogating citizens suspected of violating Islamic law. The decree comes as ...