Robert Kirchhoefer
New York certainly isn’t giving up its status as the abortion capital of the nation anytime soon. Today, Governor Andrew Cuomo released a bill that would expand legal abortions after 24 weeks. In New York, women can only receive late-term…
The first United States public monument dedicated to atheism will be revealed later this month outside a Florida courthouse: an uninspiring granite bench engraved with secularist quotes. American Atheists chose to erect the 1,500-pound bench in response to the Ten…
Today Britain’s House of Lords rejected an amendment aimed at destroying legislation that would legalize same-sex marriage, bringing the bill closer to becoming law. Peers voted 390 to 148 to defeat the amendment, which was tabled by Crossbench peer Lord…
A new smartphone app allows minors to find New York City abortion and “family planning” facilities more efficiently than before. Now, at the touch of a button, teenagers can locate nearby abortion clinics, the right type of birth control, STD…
In present-day American society, few women identify as feminists. Yet in her upcoming book, Freedom Feminism: Its Surprising History and Why It Matters Today, Christina Hoff Sommers argues that feminism is important for society and that conservative and libertarian women…
As expected, the fallout has begun in the aftermath of the Boy Scouts of America vote to end its ban on openly gay Scouts. Many of the churches that promised to cut ties with the Scouts are starting to follow…
This morning at a Brookings Institution event, General James F. Amos, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps., outlined the problems with the sequestration budget cuts the Marines have faced. Overall, the Marines will face a lack of preparedness due…
The British Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee will conduct an investigation into whether or not UK intelligence services could have done more to prevent last week’s attack on an off-duty soldier in the Woolwich area of London. The soldier, Lee Rigby, 25,…
A spokesman for the Archdiocese of New York has admitted that his archdiocese was indirectly funding abortions and birth control, despite his publicized fight against the health care law’s birth control provisions, according to the New York Times. The Archdiocese gave…
The Boy Scouts of America voted to lift the ban on openly gay Scouts on Thursday afternoon. Their rule forbidding gay scoutmasters and adult leaders is still in place. The decision is not at all surprising. The Scouts faced extreme…
