In spite of the constant news coverage of the gun control debate, an overwhelming majority of Americans don't believe the availability of guns is to blame for the increase in mass shootings, but cite problems such as parents who don't pay enough attention to their children and the lack of effective treatment for mental illness as being more to blame for the problem.
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The pornography industry in the U.S. received a strong warning this week when pornographer Ira Isaacs was sentenced for four years for violating federal obscenity laws, a case that proves that in spite of little support for upholding these law by the Obama Administration, existing law is strong enough to win convictions.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
In a typical sleight of hand, the Administration that has caused the most serious threats to religious liberty in U.S. history, decided to issue a proclamation naming January 16 as Religious Freedom Day, an event that received so little fanfare almost no one knows it even happened.
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The European Court of Human Rights handed down its decision on four critical religious freedom cases, exonerating one Christian but dismissing the other three claims.
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An ever increasing number of college women are choosing to foot their steep tuition bills by hiring themselves out to "Sugar Daddies" who give them enough to cover tuition and living expenses.
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A new report has found that one in 25 teenagers in the US has attempted suicide and one in eight has thought about it.
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Two 45 year-old twins who were born deaf were permitted to be euthanized by lethal injection under Belgium law after they discovered that they had glaucoma and would soon to go blind.
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The UK press is calling a letter protesting same-sex marriage that was signed by almost a quarter of the country's clergy as constituting one of the biggest movements against the redefinition of marriage since the Reformation.
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The National Organization for Women (NOW) has finally decided the time has come to take the president to task for the scarcity of women in his White House.
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A major drug manufacturer has settled a lawsuit brought by four women who claim their breast cancer was caused by a drug containing a synthetic estrogen taken by their mother during pregnancy in the 1950s.
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