Fluid Intelligence

The raw ability to grasp new things–or fluid intelligence–begins to fall in the 20s, while the mastery of familiar things—or crystallized intelligence—rises for almost as [...]

Who Owns Your Children (and other stuff worth reading)

When Swedish artist Christer Johansson and his wife Annie took their seven-year-old son Domenic out of school for a month, prior to their permanent move [...]

Marriage, Sham Marriage, Gay Marriage

Did you know that we have Federal employees, officers of the law, who spend their time trying to determine who’s in love —and who’s not?

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The Technology Security War Game

A core, not side, effect of technology is its ability to magnify power and multiply force — for both attackers and defenders. One side creates [...]

Define “Marriage”

We cannot embrace same-sex marriage and live in continuity with our past as a civilization. To embrace it is to deny that tradition, revelation, reason, [...]

A False Choice Between Self and State

The TSA just released a new rule change: knives with blades less than 2 1/4in long will be allowed in carry on luggage starting in [...]

Reality and Religion (From ICR)

This article on Intercollegiate Review is worth reading this morning:

College is supposed to be about education, and there are not a few college professors [...]

The Soul Free World of Abortion

On the 40th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the MSNBC commentator literally thanked God and country for abortion. Fifteen years ago, he was in a [...]

Comforting or Comfortable?

If there’s one thing I know about concealed carry, it’s this: it’s not comfortable. In all the concealed carry classes I’ve taught, in fact, I’ve [...]

Freedom and Homeschooling

Homeschooling seems like a small corner of the world to many people — a bit of strangeness in the American landscape that, perhaps, we’d all [...]