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January 15, 2013

Obamacare Means Bitter Social Issues Disputes - Ilya Shapiro, Jurist

Soon after the the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that qualifying health in...

December 8, 2012

Obama's Pot Dilemma - Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone

Now that states have started legalizing recreational marijuana, will the president continue the government’s war on weed?...

November 5, 2012

Lessons from Gay Marriage in Canada - Bradley Miller, Public Discourse

The effects of same-sex civil marriage in Canada—restrictions on free speech rights, parental rights in education, and autonomy rights of religious institutions, along with...

November 3, 2012

Women Are Worried About the 'War on Women' - A. Kapin, HuffPo

Whoever said that the War on Women was a "liberal rallying cry" should check out a national poll conducted in early October that tells a very different story....

August 31, 2012

Gay Marriage Debate Almost Over - James Antle, American Spectator

ONE DAY IN MAY, virtually every political reporter in America- or so it seemed-sat intently waiting for President Barack Obama to confirm his opinion on a subject where most of the...

July 6, 2012

A Defense of the War on Drugs - J. Caulkins & M. Lee, National Affairs

In June 2011, the Global Commission on Drug Policy soberly proclaimed: "The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the...

June 1, 2012

Dan Quayle Was Right About Murphy Brown - Isabel Sawhill, Brookings

 On May 19, 1992, as the presidential campaign season was heating up, Vice President Dan Quayle delivered a family-values speech that came to define him nearly as much as hi...

May 29, 2012

The Problem with Gay Marriage: Straight People - W. J. Antle, RCPolicy

When President Barack Obama discovered the missing link in his evolution on gay marriage, he cited his personal experience with same-sex couples. Obama told ABC about "members of...

May 14, 2012

Obama's Julia Ad and the New Hubby State - Jessica Gavora, WaPo

May 10, 2012

Pro-Traditional Marriage Isn't Anti-Gay - Matthew Franck, Pub Discourse

Yesterday President Barack Obama, in an interview with ABC News, came out in support of same-sex marriage. This completed an “evolution” long in the making. The president, who ...

May 10, 2012

Why Gay Marriage Has Gained So Quickly - Ross Douthat, New York Times

In my Campaign Stops column this week, which came out just before President Obama’s official reversal on gay marriage, I made the following point about why his position was b...

May 10, 2012

Gay Marriage Support Is Obama's Bravest Move - Charles Kaiser, CNN

(CNN) -- President Barack Obama's blockbuster announcement that he is in favor of full marriage equality is the most courageous thing he has done since he entered the White House...

May 7, 2012

'Paycheck Fairness' Means Paycuts for Men - Carrie Lukas, WSJ

Team Obama calculates that its road to victory is paved with the votes of women, so the American people are now subject to a coordinated effort to cast GOP opposition to expandin...

May 7, 2012

'Paycheck Fairness' Will Hurt Women - Sabrina Schaeffer, USA Today

Passing the Paycheck Fairness Act is the Democrats' next battle in advancing the War on Women mantra this election season. But this law will not create equal pay; it will expand ...

February 21, 2012

Charles Murray Loses the Plot - Timothy Noah, The New Republic

CHARLES MURRAY HAS lost interest in changing anybody’s mind. When the author of Coming Apartwants to substantiate some assertion that few would dispute—u...

May 13, 2013

Ginsburg: Roe v. Wade Gave Anti-Abortion Movement a 'Target'

May 13, 2013

Minnesota Poised to Adopt Same-Sex Marriage Law

May 10, 2013

Gay Marriage Passes Minn. House

May 8, 2013

Delaware Legalizes Gay Marriage

May 7, 2013

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May 7, 2013

GOP Senators Call for Review of Abortion Policy After Gosnell Case