Kristen Soltis
Receiving wide media attention and almost no critique, the George Soros–funded Constitution Project recently released its “Task Force on Detainee Treatment” report alleging “torture” by the George W. Bush Administration. Professing non-partisanship, the task force included former Arkansas Republican Congressman…
United Methodist-affiliated Duke University in North Carolina will now cover sex-change surgery up to $50,000 as part of its medical insurance plan. It reportedly joins 37 other U.S. colleges in medically and financially facilitating America latest gnostic fantasy that gender…
Supposedly Christendom is over, as nearly everyone in the West ostensibly becomes a religiously indifferent “none.” But this reality has yet to affect state funerals, most wonderfully in Margaret Thatcher’s last week in a Britain where few are regular churchgoers….
Last month the 30th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan’s missile defense idea, the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), often then called “Star Wars,” passed by fairly quietly. He unveiled it in a relatively brief speech to the nation on March 23,…
Margaret Thatcher was forever the thrifty Methodist grocer’s daughter of Grantham. Her father was both lay preacher and Conservative Party stalwart. They attended the Methodist church several times every Sabbath and heeded many then Methodist strictures against theater-going and dancing….
Last Easter Sunday President Obama and his family attended St. John’s Episcopal Church across Lafayette Square as he has in the past, and as have many presidents dating back to James Monroe. The clergy there across 200 years have usually…
Religious liberty scholar Paul Marshall, journalist Lela Gilbert, and human rights lawyer Nina Shea have released a new book on international torment of Christians by Islamists and communists called Persecuted: The Global Assault on Christians (Thomas Nelson). Their launch was…
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and the global Religious Left are now looking to Martin Sheen for guidance about nuclear weapons. True, Sheen did portray a U.S. president in the 1990s television series The West Wing. But…
The Boy Scouts of America’s (BSA) National Council meeting in May will decide whether to abandon the BSA’s long-time ban on open homosexuality. Early last month, the BSA executive board, confronted by corporate threats to defund, had planned to proceed…
