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Educational Freedom and Reform
Homeschooling
- "Why I chose home schooling," Bethany Gardiner, CNN
- "Students and Parents as Consumers," Joseph Knippenberg, First Things
Legislation and Policy Proposals
- "Some News and Recent Articles on College Debt," Chris Gacek, Family Research Council
- "For Women to Think Mathematically, Colleges Should Think Creatively," Theodore P. Hill and Erika Rogers, The Chronicle of Higher Education
- "Fixing Education: The Problems Are Clear, but the Solutions Aren't Simple," Dashiell Bennett, The Atlantic
- "Public Education: The Next Moral Issue for Today's Evangelicals," Katelyn Beaty, Christianity Today
Government Reform
Regulation
- "The Export-Import Bank Nightmare," Ken Blackwell, CNSNews.com
- "The Cost of Big Government," John Stossel, Fox Business
- "Can Government Be Limited?," James V. DeLong, The American
Waste/Fraud/Abuse
- "Report: Earmarks Way Down With Moratorium," Andrew Joseph, National Journal
- ""Pig Book:" Congress curbs earmarking habit, but still sneaking in pet projects," Sharyl Attkisson, CBS News
Health Care
Abstinence
- "Motivation for undiluted abstinence ed.," Bob Kellogg, OneNewsNow
- "What do people who say Church teaching on sex is 'irrelevant' actually mean?," David Quinn, The Iona Institute
Conscience Protection
- "Open Letter to Georgetown University President DeGioia," Jeanne Monahan, Family Research Council
- "Kansas House Advances Pro-Life Conscience Protection Bill," Kathy Ostrowski, LifeNews.com
- "Why We Have Gone to Court against the Obama Mandate," William Armstrong, Ken Smith, and Joe Aguillard, The Wall Street Journal
Health care reform: Political and Legislative efforts
- "Second opinion," Marvin Olasky, WORLD Magazine
- "Law or no law, some states adopt healthcare reform," Mark Miller, Reuters
- "New SCOTUScast: "Coercion" and Obamacare," SCOTUScaster, FedSoc Blog
Homosexuality
- "Homosexuality, Christianity, and the Gospel - Part 4," Pastor J.D., JD Greear
- "Where's the Outrage?," Austin Ruse, The Catholic Thing
- "Gambia's President Refuses to 'Offend God for Foreign Aid' Amid Homosexual Rights Push," Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post
Human Life and Bioethics
Abortion
- "Congress Should Make Secret Abortions Illegal," Jeanne Monahan and Robert Schwarzwalder, National Review Online
- "Protecting Unborn Children from Pain," Teresa S. Collett, The Public Discourse
- "Pepsi, Proxies, and Pro-Life Respect for the Rule of (Corporate) Law," Michael Fragoso, The Public Discourse
- "Unwanted daughters: India battles with "gendercide"," New York Daily News
- "Abortion Was Always Heart of Health Care Overhaul," Anna Franzonello, Roll Call
- "Ashamed and Disappointed," Tim Challies, Challies Dot Com
- "Iowa House Bans Taxpayer-Funded Abortions," Shane Vander Hart, Caffeinated Thoughts
Bioethics and Biotechnology
- "Taking, Making and Faking Life," Christopher White, National Catholic Register
- "IMF: Population Aging Calls For Ambitious Reforms," Lucia Muchova, Turtle Bay and Beyond
- "The War on Little Women, Jeanne Monahan, Family Research Council
- "Tiny, Happy People," C. Ben Mitchell, Center for Bioethics and Culture Network
- "Birth defects more common in IVF babies," Kerry Grens, Reuters
Euthanasia and End of Life Issues
- "Death knocking," Daniel James Devine, WORLD Magazine
- "The Three Stooges Euthanasia Subplot," Wesley J. Smith, Secondhand Smoke
Stem Cell Research
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- "New stem cell found in the brain," MedicalXpress.com
- "Egg-Producing Human Ovarian Stem Cells Concern Ethicists," Celeste McGovern, National Catholic Register
- "In Stem Cell Suit Appeal, Arguments Over Technicalities," Jocelyn Kaiser, Science
- "Texas passes stem-cell regulations," David Cyranoski, Nature
Human Trafficking
- "UN: Crime generates trillions of dollars each year," George Jahn, The Sacramento Bee
- "New Agreement to Fight Human Trafficking," Joe DeCapua, Voice of America
- "Sold for sex at a tender age," Nicholas D. Kristof, The Seattle Times
Women's Health
- "The Battle Against Nature's Sexism," Mary Rose Somarriba, The Public Discourse
Marriage and Family
Adoption
- "Midland families' stories intertwined through adoption agency," Sara Higgins, Midland Reporter-Telegram
- "Families race to adopt before U.S. tax credit ends," Amy Feldman, Reuters
Family Economics
- "In the zone?," Warren Cole Smith, WORLD Magazine
- "Redeeming Economics: How Federal Budgets Affect the American Family," John D. Mueller, Ethics and Public Policy Center
- "The War on Women Like Ann Romney," Alexa, Alexa Shrugged
- "America's Crisis of Character," Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal
- "Welfare's Not-So-Helping Hand," Alexis Hamilton, Values and Capitalism
- "To Pay Off Loans, Grads Put Off Marriage, Children," Sue Shellenbarger, The Wall Street Journal
Family Structure
- "Living Together Before Marriage: An Idea Whose Time Will Never Come," Rob Schwarzwalder, Family Research Council
- "The Downside of Cohabiting Before Marriage," Meg Jay, New York Times
- "An Aspen in a Forest of Pines: Thinking through Asexuality," Matthew Lee Anderson, Mere Orthodoxy
- "Births to Cohabitating Couples Dramatically Increase," Crosswalk.com
Media
Pornography
- ""How Internet Porn Turned My Beautiful Boy into a Hollow, Self-Hating Shell"," Cathy Ruse, Family Research Council
- "Court Upholds Challenge against Federal Laws on Pornography," JDJournal
Internet
- "Technology in America," Michael Sacasas, The American
- "Instagram and the Freedom to Innovate," Joseph Sunde, Values and Capitalism
Religion and Public Policy
Religious Liberty
- "Student leaders battle Vanderbilt policy," Leigh Jones, WORLD Magazine
- "A Statement on Religious Liberty," United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
- "Supreme Knight Carl Anderson's speech on Religious Liberty at National Catholic Prayer Breakfast," CNS News
- "Religious liberty: Why a battle 1,700 years ago is relevant today," Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service
- "Faces And Voices Of Those Standing For Religious Liberty," Speak Up Church
- "The Call of Conscience," Chris Potts, Truth & Triumph
- "CCJ Urges Supreme Court to Protect the Mt. Soledad Cross," John Eastman and Edwin Meese, The Claremont Institute
- "NY's Nanny State: Denying Religious and Personal Liberties," George Marlin, The Catholic Thing
Religion in America
Check out Dr. Kenyn Cureton's feature on Watchmen Pastors called "The Lost Episodes," featuring how religion has had an impact on our Founding Fathers.
- "FRC Honors Charles W. Colson," Jared Bridges, Family Research Council
- "Vatican orders crackdown on 'radical' nuns in the US," BBC News
- "College-Age Millennials Are Becoming Less Religious," Joe Carter, The Gospel Coalition
- "A Generation in Transition: Religion, Values, and Politics among College-Age Millenials," Robert P. Jones, Daniel Cox, and Thomas Banchoff, Public Religion Research Institute
Secularism
- "In a Culture Without Virtue, We Have Men Without Chests," Rob Schwarzwalder, Family Research Council
- "Tolerance-Or Else: Coercive Attempts to Impose Secular Beliefs," Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, Christianity Today
- "Secularism in America: Growing American movement raises concerns," Chaz Muth, Catholic News Service
- "Civil Society Reconsidered," Gertrude Himmelfarb, The Weekly Standard
International
Israel
- "Gazans Blame Hamas for Economic Condition, Lack of Terrorism Against Israel," Seth Mandel, Commentary Magazine
- "Netanyahu must stop hiding behind Holocaust warnings," Editorial, Haaretz
- "Jerusalem is the capital of Israel," Rick Santorum, New York Daily News
International Economy and Family
- "Just in Time: The Future of the Rule of Law in England," David Conway, Library of Law and Liberty
- "The Global Economy at Risk," Editorial, New York Times
Religious Persecution
- "Islamic Extremists Attacking Christians, Sikhs in South Asia," Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post
- "Iranian Christians await verdict," Charlie Butts, OneNewsNow
- "In the shadow of war," Jamie Dean, WORLD Magazine
- "India: Christian Children Threatened, Abused in Series of Attacks," Crosswalk
Sharia law -- U.S., foreign
- "Islamist and neo-Nazi tactics compared," Chad Groening, OneNewsNow
- "Islamic Law and Justice for All?," Guest Blogger, Council on Foreign Relations
The Courts
Constitutional Issues
- "Is the Natural Law Persuasive?," R.J. Snell, The Public Discourse
- "Two Reviews of Books on the Constitution and its Judges," Justin Shubow, FedSoc Blog
- "International Law, The U.S. Constitution, and the New World Order," The Federalist Society
Judicial Activism
- "Should Judges Be Moral Arbiters?," Justin Shubow, FedSoc Blog
- "Overturning ObamaCare Isn't 'Judicial Activism'," David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey, The Wall Street Journal
Other News of Note
- "Liberalism After Liberalism," Wilfred M. McClay, First Things
- "In Nothing We Trust," Ron Fournier and Sophie Quinton, National Journal
- "Liberals, Conservatives, and the Haidt Results," Mark Bauerlein, The Chronicle of Higher Education
- "The Democratic War on One Woman," Kimberley A. Strassel, The Wall Street Journal
Book reviews
- "The Books That Taught Me," Amanda Ruud, The Examined Life
- "Have a Nice Millennium," Craig S. Lerner, Claremont Review of Books
- "Law, Race, and Equality," Lee J. Strang, Library for Law and Liberty
- ""Absolute Power" A review of Mark Levin's Ameritopia," Jeffrey Lord, The American Spectator