These compilations of articles from a variety of sources by the Family Research Council continue to offer interested people a gold mine. A new edition appears every two weeks. Readers will find in each a wealth of information not readily found elsewhere. For previous reviews I've posted, click here.
Here is a brief sampling from the current edition:
- "The Best Sex of Your Life," Peter Sprigg, Family Research Council
- "Nordic Neighbors Differ on Key Human Rights Issue," Home School Legal Defense Association
In northern Europe, two nordic countries strongly differ in their response to homeschooling. Finland provides a warm reception to parents who chose to educate their children at home, while neighboring Sweden continues down an increasingly dangerous path of ostracizing and persecuting families who seek to exercise their right to homeschool.
- "Saturday People, Sunday People," Lela Gilbert, The Weekly Standard
The “Saturday People” are, of course, Jews, today nearly gone from Muslim lands. Now the Sunday people”—Christians— are in the crosshairs, and they, too, are fleeing at an alarming rate. Both religions are unwelcome in many Muslim-majority lands for reasons of Islamist ideology—the declaration of jihad, or holy war, against infidels.
- "U.S. Scientists Commit Most Research Fraud: Study," Jenifer Goodwin, HealthDay
A new study finds that nearly 800 research papers were retracted by medical journals for serious errors or faked data over the past decade, many of them authored by U.S. researchers.
Click the "Continue reading..." line below for the complete list of articles.
Educational Freedom and Reform
Homeschooling
- "School Choice Center Stage in the States," Lindsay Burke, The Heritage Foundation
- "Pennsylvania Auditor Calls for Moratorium on New Charter Schools," Andrew LeFevre, School Reform News
- "Does School Choice "Work"?," Frederick M. Hess, National Affairs
- "Nordic Neighbors Differ on Key Human Rights Issue," Home School Legal Defense Association
Private and Religious Education
- "Supreme Court Weighs Arizona Tax Credit for Christian Schools ," Ken Klukowski, Townhall.com
- "Campus Political Correctness and the Costs of Free Speech," Todd Hartch, The Public Discourse
- "Suffer the Little Children," Michael D. Aeschliman, First Principles
- "The Academic Fruits of the Spirit," Donald Opitz, Patheos
- "Inspiration and Propaganda," Zach Weichbrodt, The Examined Life
Legislation and Policy Proposals
- "Federalizing Education: A Jeffersonian Critique," David Marion, The Ashbrook Center
- "Midterm Election Brings Gains for School Reformers," Ben Boychuk, School Reform News
- "Turning a New Page on Education Policy," Lindsay Burke, The Heritage Foundation
- "Back Education Standards that Work," Robert Holland, The Heartland Institute
- "K-12 Budget Picture: Lean Years Ahead," Frederick M. Hess, American Enterprise Institute
Health Care
Abstinence
- "The Best Sex of Your Life," Peter Sprigg, Family Research Council
- "Planned Parenthood bending the truth," Bill Bumpas, OneNewsNow
- "UN Agency Promotes Sex Ed From Birth," Terrence McKeegan, CFAM Friday Fax
Health care reform: Political and Legislative efforts
- "Obamacare: Is the Individual Mandate Constitutional?," Jared Bridges, Family Research Council
- "Side Effects: Obamacare Encourages States to Drop Medicaid," Kathryn Nix, The Heritage Foundation
- "Feds to hospitals: Go gay...or go broke," Charlie Butts, OneNewsNow
- "America's New Health Care System Revealed: Updated Chart Shows Obamacare's Bewildering Complexity," The Galen Institute
- "Joining the ObamaCare Suit," Opinion, The Wall Street Journal
Homosexuality
- "Republicans Must Reject Lame Duck Repeal," Robert Maginnis, Human Events
- "I Swear--Homosexual Activists Do the D***edest Things," Peter Sprigg, Family Research Council
- "Focus on the Family Picks Up 'Day of Truth'," Lillian Kwon, The Christian Post
- "Will 'E-Marriages' Be The Next Big Thing For Same-Sex Couples?," Megan Gibson, Time
- "Mich. teacher ejects student for anti-gay remarks," Jeff Karoub, Associated Press
- "'Gay' coffins with nudes, rainbows go on sale," Reuters
Homosexuals in the Military
- "Congress Should Be Skeptical Of Pentagon's Biased And Incomplete Surveys On Homosexuality In The Military," Robert Maginnis, Family Research Council
- "FRC Calls for Department of Defense to Investigate Leaks Regarding Report on Homosexuality in the Military," Press Release, Family Research Council
- "Politicizing the Pentagon: Obama cadre allows leak attack on military's homosexual policy," Frank J. Gaffney Jr., The Washington Times
- "The Other 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell': Why won't the Pentagon stand up for ROTC?" Cheryl Miller, The Weekly Standard
Sexually-transmitted disease
- "Study: Teen Girls More Likely to Have Risky Sex Than Teen Boys," Meredith Melnick, Time
- "F.D.A. Questions Drug Store Tests for Sexually Transmitted Diseases," Andrew Pollack, New York Times
Human Life and Bioethics
Abortion
- "I fought breast cancer . . . and ended up backing abortion," Jeanne Monahan, The Washington Times
- "Gardasil Linked to 16 Deaths in US in Less than a Year and a Half," Jeanne Monahan, Family Research Council
- "A Deafening Silence on Black Abortions," Vicki Thorn, Headline Bistro
- "Planned Parenthood Says Sex Guide For Youth is a Best Seller," Seana Cranston, J.D., C-FAM
- "Abortion Law is Family Law," Helen Alvare, The Public Discourse
- "Obama Admin May Face Probe on Funding of Pro-Abortion Kenya Groups," Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com
- "The Ethics of Fetal Pain," Christian Brugger, The Public Discourse
- "Abortion and the Mental Health of Women," Michael New, National Review Online
- "Thirty Studies in Five Years Show Abortion Hurts Women's Mental Health," Priscilla Coleman, LifeNews.com
Bioethics and Biotechnology
- "Dems extol facts and science but act on ideology," Byron York, The Washington Examiner
- "The Next Generation Of Bioethics," Medical News Today
- "U.S. Scientists Commit Most Research Fraud: Study," Jenifer Goodwin, HealthDay
- "Missing Persons," Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing
- "Think Again: Global Aging," Philip Longman, Foreign Policy
Euthanasia and End-of-Life Issues
- "The case for death with dignity: It ended with patients' rights," Myra Christopher, Kansas City Star
- "No to euthanasia -- yes to genuine care," The Catholic Leader
Stem Cell Research
- "Major Scientific Advance: Blood From Skin Without Stem Cells," David Prentice, LifeNews.com
- "Blood Cells from Skin," David Prentice, Family Research Council
- "In one niche, the risk to women is too great," Judy Norsigian, The Boston Globe
- "A true story about a little boy," Raymond L. Flynn, Boston Globe
- "ESCR Hype: Now They Will Cure the National Debt!" Wesley J. Smith, Secondhand Smoke
Women's Health
- "Will Obama Stand Up for Repro Rights?," Pema Levy, The American Prospect
Marriage and Family
Adoption
- "Is the Orphan My Neighbor?," Russell Moore, Qideas
- "Christian doctor forced off adoption panel goes to EU Court of Justice," Hilary White, LifeSiteNews
Family Economics
- "Attack the deficit: the fierce urgency of now," Ken Blackwell, The Daily Caller
- "Getting Our Fiscal House in Order," Ken Blackwell, The Huffington Post
- "Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them," Tom McClusky, The Cloakroom
- "Unemployment and the Minimum Wage," Carson Holloway, The Public Discourse
- "If Republicans Are Serious About Budget Cutting...," Mark Alexander, The Patriot Post
- "Atlanta's Public-Housing Revolution," Howard Husock, City Journal
- "Even Secretariat Understood Death Tax's Cruelty: Taxing the bereaved produces little revenue, and many quarrels," Deroy Murdock, National Review Online
Family Structure
- "Can Marriage Recover from the Assault of Radical Individualism?," Janice Shaw Crouse, The American Thinker
- "Changes in family trends raise qualms," Cheryl Wetzstein, The Washington Times
- "Four in 10 say marriage is becoming obsolete," Hope Yen, Associated Press
- "You Don't Have to Be a Heartbreaker--There's life out there for marriage. A case for some cultural -- country -- confidence," Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review Online
- "Opposing view on generations: The car-wreck generation," Charles A. Donovan, USA Today
Parental Rights
- "Parental rights at great risk," Bill Bumpas, OneNewsNow
- "Planned Parenthood Says Sex Guide For Youth is a Best Seller," Seana Cranston, The Friday Fax
Media
Pornography
- "Speaker decries U.S. 'polyamory' culture," Hannah Cummings, Baptist Press
- "Pornography: Is it affecting your family?," Brenda Zurita, Beverly LaHaye Institute
Internet
- "Social Media Addict Seeks Connection, Escape," Sarah Raymond Cunningham, Christianity Today
Broadcast and Cable Decency
- "The Moral Weightiness of Censorship and Sex," Tom Gilson, Evangel
Religion and Public Policy
Religious Liberty
- "Think Again," Jim Tonkowich, Boundless Magazine
- "A Jihadist Conquest?," James V. Schall, The Catholic Thing
- "Public Prayer and the Founding Fathers," Thomas S. Kidd, Patheos
- "Liberty Counsel Overturns School's Ban on Student's American Flag," Liberty Counsel
- "Saturday People, Sunday People," Lela Gilbert, The Weekly Standard
- "Old Alignments, Emerging Fault Lines: Religion in the 2010 Election and Beyond," Robert P. Jones, Ph.D. and Daniel Cox, Public Religion Research Institute
- "The Legalism of Political Christianity," Jordan J. Ballor, The Acton Institute
- "The Philantrophy We Need," Matthew Hanley, The Catholic Thing
- "Losing faith," Edward Lee Pitts, WORLD Magazine
Religion in American Public Life
- "Martin Luther's Mighty Fortress," Robert Morrison, Family Research Council
- "Arranged: Happily Wholesome in a Brooklyn World," Jennifer S. Bryson, The Public Discourse
- "United States Under Pressure on Human Rights," Terrence McKeegan, C-FAM
- "Court Blocks Oklahoma Sharia Ban," Robert Spencer, FrontPageMag.com
- "Liberty Counsel Launches Eighth Annual "Friend or Foe Christmas Campaign," Liberty Counsel
- "Under God' vindicated: Becket Fund for Religious Liberty beats back renewed attempt to take 'under God' out of Pledge of Allegiance," The Becket Fund
- "The Liberal Mind Rejects Sad Facts: Reality may cause sadness and pain, but it is reality nonetheless," Dennis Prager, National Review Online
Secularism
- "Christmas wars come early," Petula Dvorak, The Washington Post
- "Neal Johnson: When Charity Shames," Jonathan Witt, The Acton Institute
The Courts
Constitutional Issues
- "Profiles in Fecklessness," Paul Zummo, The American Catholic
- "The Presidency and the Constitution," Rep. Mike Pence, Imprimis
Judicial Activism
- "The Iowa Judicial Retention Vote: An "In-State" Interest in Marriage," Chuck Donovan, The Heritage Foundation
- "Colorado Judge: Religious Groups Not Second Class," Kevin Theriot, Alliance Defense Fund
- "Judicial Elections and Their Opponents in Ohio," Jacob Huebert, The Federalist Society
- "Stopping Judicial Imperialism: If judges are going to act like politicians, then they should be voted out like politicians," Thomas Sowell, National Review Online
- "Why State Courts Matter," Carrie Severino, National Review Online
Other News of Note
- "Will President Obama bring back the draft?," Tony Perkins, The Daily Caller
- "November 9, 1989: The Fall of the Wall," Robert Morrison, Family Research Council
- "Time.com Jumps the Shark on Palin and Tea Party Bashing," Chris Gacek, Family Research Council
- "Saving Hayek from His New 'Friends'," Jonah Goldberg, National Review Online
- "GOP is urged to avoid social issues," Ben Smith and Byron Tau, The Politico
- "The Liberal Crisis," John Podhoretz, Commentary Magazine
- "When Government is a Bureaucratic Babel," Julia Kiewit, The Evangelical Outpost
Book reviews
- "Equally Not Nothing," Peter Augustine Lawler, First Principles
- "Mapping the Malaise of Modernity," Robert C. Jeffrey, First Principles
- "Constitutional Illusions," Matthew O'Brien, The Public Discourse
- "T.S. Eliot and the Demise of the Literary Culture," Joseph Epstein, Commentary Magazine
- "Present at the Creation," Alonzo L. Hamby, Claremont Review of Books
- "Book Review: Saving Leonardo," Sarah J. Flashing, Evangel
- ""Redeeming Economics," John D. Mueller, Ethics and Public Policy Center
- "Ethically Thin, Science Unltd.: The Shape of Progressive Bioethics," Evan Rosa, Center for Bioethics and Culture
- "God in the Details: Why disbelieving doesn't always make it so. [Review of Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self, by Marilynne Robinson]," Barton Swaim, The Weekly Standard
- "Secular Waste Lands and Hollow Men," Bruce Edward Walker, The Acton Institute
- "CS Lewis and A Preface to Paradise Lost," Eric Yang, The Examined Life
These compilations of articles from a variety of sources by the Family Research Council are a gold mine. The latest, dated Nov. 5th is below. You will find there a wealth of information not readily found elsewhere! Dozens deserve to be highlighted on blogs everywhere. For previous reviews, click here.