The Students for Life campus group held an event last night called “Beyond Politics,” where they hosted two womyn from Operation Outcry. Each speaker shared their own heart-wrenching story of their abortion, and how it led them to their political and activist stance. I was nervous before attending this event because I doubted the “beyond [...]

This is a fascinating but brief account of a family in the South who fakes Christianity for social reasons: “We are agnostics living deep in the heart of Texas and our family fakes Christianity for social reasons. It’s not so much for the sake of my husband or myself but for our young children. We [...]

Yesterday I was wondering why the US public didn’t like Afghanistan when the US government was working to make an ally out of Afghanistan, but I guess this article from the BBC explains that attitude: “Western diplomats have expressed deep concern at a decree from Afghan President Hamid Karzai granting him total control over a [...]

Here’s a cool poll of which countries Americans like the most. Canada is right at the top, France falls somewhere in the upper-middle (a bit surprising, given the abundance of French jokes in America), and Iran dead-last. Personally, I think if Gallup had polled just top government officials, we would have seen roughly the same [...]

The Large Hadron Collider is set to reopen later this week: “The particle accelerator was shut down for the Christmas period shortly after setting the record for the highest particle energies ever attained.  Over the coming months, scientists aim to smash that record again as the experiments aim for energies of some seven trillion electron [...]

Christina Larson of Foreign Policy is out to unmask the Dalai Lama (and Tibet).  She writes that despite our fascination with His Holiness’ apparent purity, wisdom, and compassion, “how much do Westerners really know about the Dalai Lama? His advocacy of an ethos of compassion and environmental protection are popular among his largely left-leaning Western [...]