According to the Associated Press, “Out-of-wedlock births in the United States have climbed to an all-time high, accounting for nearly four in 10 babies born last year, government health officials said Tuesday.” In the early 1990s, I did research on Bill Bennett’s Index of Leading Cultural Indicators — it was a compilation of data charting…

I was flipping through a Bible commentary on Genesis — I’ll omit the name of it because it is generally just fine — when I stumbled across this sentence which, admittedly, could be read several ways. However, it struck me as funny and perhaps it will you, too: “It is amazing how perceptive Gen. 1…

The Bush administration has done it. Hunger is officially gone. There are no hungry Americans anymore. Here is the proof: The US government has tweaked its terminology in referring to the nearly 11 million Americans who face a constant struggle with hunger to refer to them as people with “very low food security.” According to…

Look no further than this quote from Scarlett Johansson, “We are supposed to be liberated in America but if our President had his way, we wouldn’t be educated about sex at all. “Every woman would have six children and we wouldn’t be able to have abortions.” Unsolicited advice for Democrats interested in expanding their conversation…

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