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When religious-inspired terrorists use the Web to spread hatred it falls to religious leaders to respond by building bridges. But our efforts will fail unless misguided politicians refuse to stop cloaking the enemies of humanity behind a shroud of dangerous and false political correctness..

I am pleased, but not surprised, that the new survey from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life shows that atheists know just as much — if not quite a bit more – about religion than do religious people in general. The simple truth is this; the more someone …

Debate on the controversial Senate health care bill has begun and almost everyone has an opinion. Well, not everyone. Ironically, the administration has yet to go public with its views on what is arguably its most controversial principle in the plan: the public option. It’s a deal breaker for many …

The Paris massacre is just another example of the new normal in the West. It’s radical Muslim extremists attacking civilians — either randomly or in revenge for alleged insults to Islam — all in the name of religion. A lone gunman opened fire in the Canadian Parliament. A fanatic self-styled …

Performance-enhancing drugs, gene doping, Bowl Championship Series (BCS) vs. a playoff system in college football, caps on student-athlete scholarship stipends, state and federal government athlete agent laws regarding licensing, recruiting athletes, and providing benefits to athletes, and whether college athletes should be able to earn a profit from licensing their …

She came: She saw: She laid down the law to the most powerful, touchy, potentially dangerous nation on the planet – and then she waltzed off, leaving chaos in her wake – and costing the American taxpayer $2 – 5 million to do it. That was Secretary of State Hillary …

If all goes the way sponsoring NGOs planned it, an eight-ship armada of activists is already enroute from Cyprus to break the “siege” of Gaza. Timed for the slow news cycles of the Memorial Day weekend in the United States, organizers, led by “peace crusaders” from Turkey, Greece, Ireland, Sweden …

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke on Tuesday before a United Nations panel, blaming nearly all the suffering of the world on the free world and capitalism. Such displays are as provocative as they are defiant, and they are only the latest in a long progression of menacing behavior that causes me …

How a president responds to a crisis defines him. President Obama has shown how upset he was after the murder of abortion Dr. George Tiller and after the attack on the Holocaust Museum. But when it came to the Ft. Hood shootings, the president twice gave the incident a limited …

Wed, 20 May 2009 21:58:56 +0000 – The best news is that we actually have a bill that addresses some consumer issues in the credit card industry. The bad news is still very bad news: the lobbyists were able to get their grimy paws on it, and there was no …