Fewer Teen Girls Are Having Kids. But There Are Still Many (Older) Single Parents.

Is it possible for the culture to move in a positive direction? In one area, there is good news for U.S. culture: the teen birth rate has dropped 57 percent since 1991, reported the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Wednesday. Unfortunately, this doesn’t mean that single parenthood is going anywhere. Today, the greatest proportion […]

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California’s ‘Insanely Distorted’ Budget Increases Abortion Funding 40%

(CNSNews.com) — Sacramento Bishop Jaime Soto called the state budget plan signed Friday by California Gov. Jerry Brown “insanely distorted health care”  because it continues a 10 percent cut in Medi-Cal funds to hospitals and other health care providers for low- income families, but increases state funding to abortion providers by 40 percent. Bishop Soto, who […]

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Pro-Abortion Group: ‘Male Justices’‘Direct Attack on Women’ in Hobby Lobby Case

(CNSNews.com) – Condemnation came fast and furious following the Supreme Court ruling on Monday that said the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive and sterilization mandate is unlawful because it infringes on the religious liberty of the business owners who object to providing abortion-inducing drugs to employees. “Today’s decision from five male justices is a direct attack […]

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The Rise of American Totalitarianism

By Ben Shapiro April 9, 2014 6:53 am Last Thursday, Mozilla, the company that’s home to the web browser Firefox, forced the resignation of CEO Brendan Eich. What, precisely, had Eich done wrong? Back in 2008, Eich had donated $1,000 to the Proposition 8 effort backing traditional marriage in California. Dating website OKCupid posted a ban […]

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DHS Official: US Not ‘Routinely’ Notified When Sex Offenders Enter the Country

(CNSNews.com) – A Homeland Security Department official testified Friday before the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security that U.S. authorities are not “routinely” notified when foreign sex offenders enter the United States. “We can receive information on foreign criminal records, and in fact the NCB (National Central Bureau) is the vehicle through which […]

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The Bullies’ America

  Elaine Huguenin. (Photo courtesy of Alliance Defending Freedom) They were once high principles in the pursuit of e pluribus unum. Now equality, diversity, and tolerance are used to destroy, compel and silence. This week’s purge of a tech company CEO who privately expressed a contrary viewpoint on marriage is just the latest example of […]

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Is Opposition to Same-Sex Marriage at All Like Opposition to Interracial Marriage? No.

Benjamin Myers Photography Is opposition to same-sex marriage at all like opposition to interracial marriage? One refrain in debates over marriage policy is that laws designating marriage as exclusively the union of male and female are today’s equivalent of bans on interracial marriage. Some further argue that protecting the freedom to speak and act publicly […]

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