Fred Phelps was the best argument against his cause
Fred Phelps once told me, "I'm the best friend that homosexuals have." In a way, he had a point. Although it is only now, almost 21 years later to the...
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Changes to SAT will even out playing field
The College Board, which administers the Scholastic Aptitude Test, the once pre-eminent college entrance exam, has announced several major changes to the exam and the way it is scored. Which...
Changes to SAT will even out playing field
The College Board, which administers the Scholastic Aptitude Test, the once pre-eminent college entrance exam, has announced several major changes to the exam and the way it is scored. Which...
Trying ‘El Chapo’: Let’s let Mexico handle this
Mexico got its man. Now the question is whether it can keep him. The trophy is Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, head of the Sinaloa drug cartel. Mexican Marines arrested him...
Trying ‘El Chapo’: Let’s let Mexico handle this
Mexico got its man. Now the question is whether it can keep him. The trophy is Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, head of the Sinaloa drug cartel. Mexican Marines arrested him...
Seriously, what is wrong with Kansas?
Kansas might as well start producing "Only Heterosexuals Served Here" signs for businesses and government offices. A bill that sailed through the state's House of Representatives tells Kansans: You can...
Gender pay equity: Yeah, it’s still a problem
Everybody knows that women commonly get paid less than their male counterparts to do the same work. But does that hold true for highly educated women in the upper reaches...
The death penalty has become a game of chess
Americans have developed a nearly insatiable appetite for morbid details about crime, as any number of docudramas, Netflix series and Hollywood movies attest. There is one notable exception: executions. Here,...
Title IX could be key in reducing campus rapes
Can a modern era president, a father of two daughters, cut the horrifying statistic that one in five women is sexually assaulted during her college years? Can he change the...
GOP’s slavery fetish obscures reality of abortion dilemma
The Republican Party ought to distribute a list of rhetorical no-no's that office holders and candidates should avoid at all costs. Topping the list should be the slavery analogy. In...