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Tuesday, October 24, 2006 06:42:44 PM
This week I'm speaking at a National Press Club event sponsored by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association about the coming vote on state marriage amendments.
Tuesday, October 17, 2006 06:42:33 PM
The new Robin Williams movie "Man of the Year" has a premise: The American people are fed up with blow-dried, talking points-dried, media-packaged, made-for-TV political candidates. This November, when the people of Pennsylvania vote on whether to elect Rick Santorum or Bob Casey, maybe we'll find out if that's really true.
Tuesday, October 10, 2006 06:44:24 PM
Listen, I'm a small-government conservative. When New York banned all smoking in public places, I protested. When they came for foie gras in Chicago, I ridiculed. But when Mayor Bloomberg proposed banning trans fats in New York City restaurants, I murmured: "Gee, is that really so bad?"
Tuesday, October 03, 2006 05:42:37 PM
What happened in the Amish countryside this week was not just "sick" or "monstrous" or even "evil." It was demonic.
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 06:43:02 PM
Do mothers and fathers matter to children? When adult rights and desires clash with children's needs, how should the conflict be resolved?
Tuesday, September 19, 2006 06:02:15 PM
Just what in the world did the pope think he was doing?
Tuesday, September 12, 2006 06:22:23 PM
Are you now or have you ever been a conservative or a Christian?
Tuesday, August 29, 2006 08:00:16 PM
What lies "beyond babies"?
Tuesday, August 22, 2006 08:00:25 PM
I don't know whether John Mark Karr killed JonBenet Ramsey. Time (and DNA evidence) will likely tell. I do know that when it comes to pursuing his grotesque fantasies, Karr is typical -- that is, for a pedophile.
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 06:04:23 PM
When it comes to war, rallying men is relatively easy. A Washington Post-ABC News poll this summer, for example, found just 38 percent of all men (compared to 55 percent of all women) favored a deadline for pulling out of Iraq.
Wednesday, August 09, 2006 08:26:59 AM
At the highest echelons, men are doing well. Just look at the list of Nobel Prize winners, corporate presidents, senators, movie directors and entrepreneurs, all heavily male.
Wednesday, August 02, 2006 06:21:45 PM
Nineteen fifty-nine was a long time ago. That year, Alaska and Hawaii became the 49th and 50th states; Grammy award winners included Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
Tuesday, July 25, 2006 08:00:11 PM
It's now official: There is nothing that can't be magically transmuted into a "values issue."
Tuesday, July 18, 2006 08:23:47 PM
The Senate on Tuesday debated three important bills: Castle-DeGette, which expands federal funding for stem-cell research that kills human embryos; Santorum-Specter, which funds new research that uses the latest techniques to obtain embryonic-like stem cells without actually destroying embryos; and Brownback-Santorum, which would ban "fetal farming" or the practice of growing human fetuses for the purpose of using their body parts.
Tuesday, July 11, 2006 06:42:18 PM
When the building on East 62nd Street in Manhattan exploded in flames, fears of terrorism quickly swept the neighborhood. According to the New York Post, talk show host Larry King, who was in a nearby hotel when the explosion hit, said it sounded like a bomb and felt like an earthquake.
Tuesday, June 27, 2006 07:02:57 PM
President Bush called the leaking and publishing of information on a top secret program to locate terrorists by sifting through bank data "disgraceful." Rep. Pete King, R-N.Y., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, used an even harsher word: "treason."
Tuesday, June 20, 2006 07:02:55 PM
So Fernando Guadarrama, 21, a construction worker from Mexico who has lived illegally in the United States the last seven years, made a little mistake.
Tuesday, June 13, 2006 06:26:06 PM
It's Father's Day in America.
Tuesday, June 06, 2006 06:22:38 PM
Sen. Ted Kennedy certainly let us know what he really thinks of Americans who support the Marriage Protection Amendment, defining marriage as the union of husband and wife: "A vote for this amendment is a vote for bigotry, pure and simple." According to Minority Leader Harry Reid, even suggesting the Constitution should protect marriage as the union of husband and wife constitutes something like hate speech: "For me, it is clear the reason for this debate is to divide our society, to pit one against another," Reid said. "This is another one of the president's efforts to frighten, to distort, to distract and to confuse America."
Tuesday, May 30, 2006 06:21:11 PM
The story circulating on the Internet was hard to believe at first: A North Truro, Mass., volunteer fireman lost his position because he signed a petition opposing gay marriage?
Tuesday, May 23, 2006 07:24:09 PM
The week of June 5, the Senate will vote on a constitutional amendment on marriage. The text reads: "Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution, nor the constitution of any State, shall be construed to require that marriage or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon any union other than the union of a man and a woman."
Tuesday, May 16, 2006 07:02:32 PM
OK, it was a good speech. A great speech, even. Right from the beginning, President Bush struck exactly the right note. "America can be a lawful society and a welcoming society at the same time." This is what most Americans, in our hearts, want to believe. Immigrants, si! Illegal immigration, no.
Tuesday, May 09, 2006 09:42:28 PM
Just in time for Mother's Day, The New York Times devoted the cover of last Sunday's Times Magazine to a frightening-sounding new expose: "The War on Contraception."
Tuesday, May 02, 2006 07:02:48 PM
Ossining, N.Y., Monday, 9:17 a.m. Stopped at my local diner for coffee and the papers. The owner served me himself, and he was chatty. "Yeah, we got four people missing here today." Suddenly I remembered: Today is our national Day Without Immigrants. "How are you handling it?" I asked.
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 07:03:32 PM
This year is the 10th anniversary of the 1996 welfare reform bill. Kay Hymowitz marks the occasion in the current issue of the Manhattan Institute's City Journal by asking a penetrating question: "How is it that so many intelligent, well-intentioned people, including many experts who made up the late 20th century's Best and Brightest, were so mistaken?"
Tuesday, April 18, 2006 06:21:35 PM
In 2001, she appeared out of nowhere to chronicle the foibles of the female "upper middle class" (the polite euphemism for those of us rich enough to have nannies, but not rich enough to retire and live off our wealth) for the Atlantic Monthly. She got noticed right away:
Wednesday, April 12, 2006 06:02:00 PM
The proliferation of new political labels is a sign of the times: The old Reagan coalition, that potent conglomeration of libertarians, entrepreneurs, social conservatives and anticommunists, is cracking apart. The Dems appear headed for electoral victory, but without yet a sign of a coherent governing philosophy among them.
Tuesday, April 04, 2006 06:04:19 PM
Don't call me anti-immigration. Count me among the 17 percent of Americans in the new Pew poll who say they'd support raising the legal immigration quotas. I'm also vigorously opposed to any law that criminalizes charity for people who need food, clothing or medical care.
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 06:02:52 PM
History is written by the victors. So it is particularly fitting that New York's own Institute for American Values (where I was once an affiliate scholar) should release two scholarly reports on the marriage debate by Norval Glenn and Tom Sylvester. Professor Norval Glenn is one of the nation's top family scholars, a sociologist at University of Texas-Austin widely respected for his methodological rigor.
Tuesday, March 21, 2006 06:23:24 PM
Twelve million. That's the number of illegal immigrants living right now in the United States, according to a just-released study by the Pew Hispanic Center. The majority are from Mexico.
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