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Charity By The Sword
Just before He ascended into heaven, Jesus gave his followers the Apostolic Commission to “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations.” Many Christian rulers would interpret this...
Life, Liberty, and Abortion Reduction
In 1860 the Republican Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, endorsed a plan for compensated emancipation. Under this plan the government would purchase slaves for the purpose of setting them...
Stork Economics
If you ask a child where babies come from, you can get a lot of interesting answers, but traditionally the most common answer is that they come by stork....
Yellow Science
In the late nineteenth century, William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer developed what would come to be known as yellow journalism. By disregarding what had been standard journalistic methods,...
Men for Some Seasons
In early April, Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader, announced his intention to bring immigration legislation to the Senate floor for debate during the last two weeks of May....
