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Debating God in stem cell research
By Michelle Laque Johnson

Four years ago, my husband was diagnosed with melanoma, one of the deadliest forms of cancer. Three years later, he began a second battle against cancer. This time, it was leukemia.Cancer survivors know the fear a...

Politics
Britain’s war on Michael Savage
By Jeffrey Kuhner

The British government’s recent blacklisting of conservative talk-radio host, Michael Savage, is an ominous sign—and should be of deep concern to all Americans, regardless of their political leanings. It reflects...

Obama’s torture tactics
By Steve Malzberg

Dating all the way back to the battle for the democratic presidential nomination, we have known that President Barack Obama was against the “enhanced interrogation techniques” that we now know helped prevent further...

Specter’s defection cleanses GOP
By Kerry W. McCarthy

Sen. Arlen Specter ended 29 years of speculation by finally leaving the GOP and joining the Democratic Party. The Pennsylvanian’s career has swerved, turned, zigged and zagged, teetering back and forth between...

Foreign Affairs
Europe’s authoritarian regime
By Natasha Srdoc

The fact that I was called an “enemy of the state” would be amusing if it had not been relayed by Croatia’s finance minister and prime minister to a messenger who was assassinated in a car bomb explosion in...

Russia’s new perestroika
By Andrei Piontkovsky

Commentators in Russia and abroad are wondering if there is any hope of a Medvedev liberalization, a de-Putinization, a possible thaw and perestroika.  If this were true, it would lead to people being allowed to...

Culture
Talk radio rallies for accused soldiers
By Beowulf Rochlen

Talk radio is proving to be the saving grace for accused soldiers.On March 17, 2008, a military court in Washington DC, released a unanimous decision upholding the dismissal of charges against Marine Lt. Col. Jeffrey...

Feminists’ crowning glory
By Loredana Vuoto

Feminists always protect their own—except when it comes to supporters of Proposition 8. During the Miss USA pageant, Miss California Carrie Prejean was asked by judge and celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton if she...

Public Policy
Marriage is more than a civil right
By Joseph Beaudoin

Empirical evidence establishes an undeniable fundamental truth: heterosexual monogamy is the key survival strategy of the human species. Traditional marriage, therefore, is much more than a civil right.In 1967, in...

The extravagance of complacency
By Kerry W. McCarthy

Recently, a friend commented that complacency was what defeated John Kerry in the presidential election of 2004 and Hillary Clinton in 2008. Just what is complacency, and how can it be so important as to lose...

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