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2009 Commentary
October 06, 2009
Remembering Gulags' Victims
By Rebecca Hagelin
Three years ago, I witnessed the dancing eyes and exuberant smiles of fellow humans who were tasting freedom for the very first time. I was on a Florida barrier island when some three dozen very lucky Cubans escaped their captors, beat the odds in dangerous seas, and finally stepped into freedom on America's shore.
August 11, 2009
Assaulted by sex-ed
By Rebecca Hagelin
Much of what is being taught to our young girls and boys in sex-education classes is too graphic and vulgar to be quoted in the newspaper.
June 30, 2009
Change views on marriage
By Rebecca Hagelin
From reality show stars like Jon and Kate Gosselin to politicians to the folks next door--what we thought were the most solid of marriages are falling apart.
June 16, 2009
Using God as father's guide
By Rebecca Hagelin
The facts are brutally painful -- More than 25 million children in America live in homes where fathers are absent. Millions more have experienced emotional wounds so deep at the hands of their dads it seems as if they can never break free from the bondage of suffering and bitterness.
June 09, 2009
Reliable dads deserve respect
By Rebecca Hagelin
Recently I saw a MasterCard commercial in which a preteen son arrogantly "teaches" the father environmental lessons while grocery shopping. Right.
May 26, 2009
To whom honor is due
By Rebecca Hagelin
Everybody loves a hero. But pop culture spends so much time worshipping athletes and Hollywood stars that many of our children don't know a true hero from an impostor.
May 19, 2009
Fighting admen for teens' minds
By Rebecca Hagelin
Today's adolescents spend an estimated $200 billion a year of their own money. They are the most affluent generation of young people in the history of the world, which also makes them the most marketed to.
May 12, 2009
Sex-ed texting threat to teens
By Rebecca Hagelin
There's yet another organized effort by sex "experts" to indoctrinate your children into their worldview without your permission or knowledge. Different from "sexting," where pre-teens and teens electronically send and receive semi-nude or nude photos of themselves, "sex texting" is promoted and run by adults.
May 05, 2009
Culture Challenge of the Week? Minimalizing mothering
By Rebecca Hagelin
While no one in his right mind would dare degrade moms during the week we celebrate Mother's Day, the reality is that modern culture constantly attacks both the authority and honor of motherhood.
April 29, 2009
Porn targets kids
By Rebecca Hagelin
America is raising a generation of children on porn - and your child just might be one of them. According to the London School of Economics, nine out of 10 teens who go online will view pornography. The Kaiser Family Foundation reports that 70 percent of those who viewed porn stumbled across it - many while innocently doing their homework - and had not been looking for it.
April 21, 2009
Secure allies in the battle
By Rebecca Hagelin
Each week in this new column, I will share a common cultural challenge, or a recent threat to you and your family, and then supply concrete steps and actions you can take to save your family from it.
2008 Commentary
September 26, 2008
The Wisdom of Warriors
By RebeccaHagelin
This election year has generated a lot of talk about the role of America’s military in the Middle East. Less frequently does the conversation turn to what’s really at the heart of the matter – whether we, as Americans, are committed to a world blessed with freedom for all humankind.
September 26, 2008
Copy of THE WISDOM OF WARRIORS
By Rebecca Hagelin
This election year has generated a lot of talk about the role of America’s military in the Middle East. Less frequently does the conversation turn to what’s really at the heart of the matter – whether we, as Americans, are committed to a world blessed with freedom for all humankind.
September 03, 2008
Bloom Where You're Planted
By Rebecca Hagelin
I don't know who said it first, but I'll never forget who said it first to me: my mother. It was an admonishment to look around me at the opportunities and needs within my grasp -- and to embrace them. Her message was clear: If you bloom where you are planted, beautiful, unexpected things can happen.
July 25, 2008
Nuclear Power: Lighting the Future
By Rebecca Hagelin
Radical environmentalists didn’t like it when President Bush decided not to use the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions. And they hated his lifting of the presidential ban on offshore drilling.
July 17, 2008
Government Is Costing You a Bundle
By Rebecca Hagelin
Congratulations: The rest of your 2008 paychecks belong to you and your family. Enjoy!
July 04, 2008
The American miracle
By Rebecca Hagelin
"Tell us about the American miracle." It was in 1983 when West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl spoke those words to President Ronald Reagan. They were gathered at the annual G7 economic summit attended by the heads of the leading industrialized nations.
June 26, 2008
Unleash America's Energy Potential
By Rebecca Hagelin
As any driver can tell you, the pain at the pump is pretty acute right now. It’s a simple matter of supply and demand. Demand is up (thanks, in part, to an increasing appetite for fuel in China and India), and supply is low.
June 06, 2008
Lieberman-Warner: A State-by-State Snapshot
By Rebecca Hagelin
Well, isn’t it just like Congress to take the latest fad -- in this case, “global warming” -- and use it to try to usher in yet more government control of your life?
May 15, 2008
Climate Control: A Costly Proposal
By Rebecca Hagelin
Think energy is expensive now? Wait until Congress plugs in the "Climate Security Act of 2007."
May 03, 2008
Abstinence: In the "No"
By Rebecca Hagelin
Who could argue with the idea that, when it comes to sex education, our teenagers should be taught to say “no”? Considering what’s at stake (their health, their future, their dignity as human beings, their morality) -- and because we love them and want what’s best for them -- nothing short of a clear-cut abstinence message will do.
April 24, 2008
Let Reagan Go?
By Rebecca Hagelin
I have one question for anyone who would have us "let Ronald Reagan go": Are you kidding?
April 17, 2008
Congress & The Mortgage Madness: Leave Things A-Loan
By Rebecca Hagelin
Americans are a compassionate people. Faced with media reports about the rising tide of foreclosures, it’s understandable that many feel tempted to applaud federal action -- to agree that politicians should “do something” to help people stay in their homes.
April 03, 2008
NAVIGATING THE NUMBERS
By Rebecca Hagelin
You know the expression “The numbers don’t lie”? Well, after you spend a few minutes perusing The Heritage Foundation’s new “2008 Federal Revenue and Spending Book of Charts,” you may wish they did.
March 12, 2008
Paying the Price to Wipe Out the Enemy
By Rebecca Hagelin
The headline in my local weekly paper was strikingly idiotic:“Ending War through Diplomacy"
March 05, 2008
Preserving "Liberty's Best Hope"
By Rebecca Hagelin
Listening to more than a few liberals, you'd think that the biggest problem in the world today is the United States. The "blame America first" crowd also foolishly wants us to give up our sovereignty, our security and our heritage. It's nauseating.
February 20, 2008
Heritage at 35: A Track Record of Success
By Rebecca Hagelin
Seen any liberals wearing black armbands lately? It wouldn’t surprise me. You see, it was 35 years ago this month that The Heritage Foundation opened its doors for the first time -- and the policy landscape was forever changed.
January 17, 2008
The Link Between Freedom & Prosperity
By Rebecca Hagelin
If there's one thing the American experiment proves, it’s the power of freedom to transform lives. If you let people control their own destinies, there's no limit to what they can achieve. But if you bind them with the straitjacket of central planning, smother their creativity with over-regulation, fence them in with high tariffs and take their hard-earned money with high taxes, you kill their dreams even as you wreck an economy.
2007 Commentary
December 19, 2007
The Power of Words
By Rebecca Hagelin
Imagine a university where you could hear some of the best and brightest minds on a regular basis.
December 05, 2007
Compassion at Christmas
By Rebecca Hagelin
It's common, around this time of year, to hear people grumble about Christmas being "too commercial." They have a point, of course. It's easy to get so caught up in the buying frenzy that we forget why we celebrate Christmas in the first place. But let’s not sell ourselves short. The observance of Jesus' birth also inspires countless acts of kindness and generosity.
November 28, 2007
The (Un)fairness Doctrine
By Rebecca Hagelin
Who should decide what you hear over the radio and on TV? You? Or policymakers in Washington?
November 07, 2007
College Students & Privacy: Do Your Homework
By Rebecca Hagelin
If you have a child in college, you obviously want to know how he's doing academically. You want to know about his health, safety and general well-being. After all, you didn’t stop being a loving parent just because your child turned 18 and flew off to college on his own, right? Just don't be surprised if you call the university or one of his professors and are told: Sorry, pal. We can't disclose that information to you without your son's consent.
October 31, 2007
Protecting Your Children from Perverts & Pornography
By Rebecca Hagelin
Just reading the headlines is enough to make you feel numb.
Scan the “news feed” at familyfragments.com, and you’ll see what I mean
October 24, 2007
Becoming a Savvy Media Customer
By Rebecca Hagelin
Even in the highly competitive world of magazine covers, it’s hard to miss the latest issue of Salvo. A stark mannequin face, flanked by two other mannequins, stares out, a large computer cable port embedded in its forehead. The headline: "Under the Influence: The Media and Their Messages." Above the picture is the slogan "Garbage In, Garbage Out."
October 19, 2007
Becoming a Force for Good
By Rebecca Hagelin
What makes The Heritage Foundation one of the most famous and widely quoted nonprofit companies worldwide? Having a top-notch staff to promote public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values and a strong national defense helps, no question.
October 10, 2007
Charting a Course for "Common Ground"
By Rebecca Hagelin
Politics is a bruising, full-contact sport -- as Ronald Reagan discovered shortly after his inauguration.
October 01, 2007
The Justice Speaks
By Rebecca Hagelin
These poetic words of inconsolable grief were penned by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in his newly released memoir, My Grandfather’s Son. In this moving passage, he describes his agony in the days following the death of the man that came to be “Daddy.” The book is filled with magnificent prose in which one of the most powerful men in America repeatedly dares to bare his soul -- dares to make himself vulnerable to the cold, hard world of cynics in which we live.
September 21, 2007
A Poor Way to Measure Poverty
By Rebecca Hagelin
Each year, when you hear the latest Census Bureau numbers on poverty -- when they say how many of our fellow Americans are poor -- what do you picture?
September 13, 2007
Returning "Power to the People"
By Rebecca Hagelin
Decent Americans across the country are so disgusted by a culture that doesn’t reflect their values, a society that trashes the family, and a government gone wild, that they often feel helpless and hopeless about the future of our nation. So I think they’ll join me in saying: Thank goodness for Laura Ingraham’s latest book, “Power to the People.”
September 05, 2007
Education Policy: Putting Congress to the Test
By Rebecca Hagelin
Visitors to the Department of Education in Washington, D.C., encounter a bit of ticky-tacky architecture when they enter the otherwise grand, white-marble building:
August 23, 2007
Take it from a Mom: Time Flies
By Rebecca Hagelin
My husband and I held each other and cried more than I think we have in nearly 22 years of marriage.
August 16, 2007
SCHIP: A Better Diagnosis
By Rebecca Hagelin
The only thing worse than being against baseball, Mom or apple pie is being "anti-kid."
July 20, 2007
A Witness to Newfound Liberty
By Rebecca Hagelin
Shortly after 27 Cuban refugees set foot on a Florida beach in the wee hours of Saturday, July 14, Providence saw fit that I was among the first Americans to welcome them.
July 14, 2007
Cubans Land in Florida
By Rebecca Hagelin
The Florida barrier island known as Little Gasparilla was the place they found freedom as 27 Cuban refugees stepped safely on the shore at approximately 5:30 am today.
June 22, 2007
Education Policy: Lesson Learned?
By Rebecca Hagelin
Who should be in charge of your child's education -- you or some strangers in Washington, D.C.? It's a question worth pondering as Congress prepares to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law.
June 08, 2007
The Immigration Giveaway
By Rebecca Hagelin
Nobody ever said that being a parent is easy. But do politicians have to make it harder?
May 25, 2007
Ripping the Lid off a Secret Immigration Deal
By Rebecca Hagelin
I've never been more proud to work at The Heritage Foundation than I was this past Monday.
I was seated at a conference table with 31 of the brightest, most analytical and highly principled people I've ever known as we dissected and analyzed various ripple effects of the Senate’s devastating immigration-reform proposal.
May 18, 2007
Sovereignty at Stake: Losing Under a "Lost" Treaty
By Rebecca Hagelin
My husband and I have taught our three children that the people of the United States have a fundamental right to self-determination -- that our national sovereignty is critical if we are to remain a free people.
May 10, 2007
John Stossel: Myth Buster Extraordinaire
By Rebecca Hagelin
My teenage son Nick is smacked in the face with liberal, socialist dogma every day of his life. The notion that Big Daddy Government can take care of everyone, natural disasters and all of mankind's ills is commonly accepted in his generation, because that's the message the modern culture shoves down their throats.
April 20, 2007
Curtailing Campus Crime
By Rebecca Hagelin
It's part of human nature to seek shelter -- to yearn for safe surroundings. Sure, we take precautions: We buckle our seatbelts. We lock our doors. But even then, we preserve our mental well being by refusing to dwell on the reasons we take those precautions in the first place.
April 06, 2007
Low-skill households exact a high cost
By Rebecca Hagelin
Brace yourself for some old-fashioned class warfare in the months ahead. With a full roster of liberals running for president in 2008, some sharp contrasts will be drawn between the "haves" and the "have-nots" -- red-hot rhetoric designed more to anger than to educate.
March 30, 2007
Ethanol: Time to steer away
By Rebecca Hagelin
This week, in fact, President Bush has been busy pushing corn. On Tuesday, he and Energy Secretary Sam Bodman visited the U.S. Postal Service Vehicle Maintenance Facility to see a demonstration of some alternative-fuel trucks. The day before, the president met with Detroit automakers, who urged him to improve consumer access to ethanol.
March 16, 2007
Sen. Kennedy Snubs Ailes at Free Speech Awards
By Rebecca Hagelin
Anticipation was high. The black-tie crowd had just finished a wonderful meal and enjoyed several moving presentations. The evening’s keynote speaker and top honoree was approaching the podium. But before he could utter a word, Sen. Ted Kennedy rose from a table in the front of the room and exited. His silent, rude snub was plainly intended to send the honoree a message: Your work and values are invalid. I'm taking my toys and going home!
March 09, 2007
Endangered: Western civilization
By Rebecca Hagelin
When the U.S. population officially hit the 300 million mark last October, there weren't any celebrations. Most news organizations took note of it and moved on. Environmentalists and other liberals crabbed about having more people around to consume precious resources.
March 02, 2007
Charting a true path to success
By Rebecca Hagelin
Professional athletes taking steroids. Corporate bigwigs cooking the books. College students cheating on exams. Parents going ballistic at kids’ sporting events. Politicians resorting to dirty tricks. What do they all have in common?
February 23, 2007
The Power of "Amazing Grace"
By Rebecca Hagelin
Mention the word “slavery,” and people think of the distant past -- of Africans who were cruelly kidnapped from their homeland and forced to work in brutal conditions in a strange land, or of ancient Hebrews struggling to build pyramids under the watchful eye of sadistic Egyptian masters.
February 02, 2007
Separate and unequal
By Rebecca Hagelin
One of the most critical values my husband and I try to teach our three teenagers is the importance and joy of marriage.
January 26, 2007
Wealth and economic freedom go hand in hand
By Rebecca Hagelin
It's a question that has perplexed politicians, philosophers and philanthropists for generations: Why are some countries rich and others poor?
January 19, 2007
Dodging the perfect storm
By Rebecca Hagelin
No, it won't drown innocent lives or destroy the landscape as did the horrific tsunami of 2004. This tsunami is a financial one that threatens to bankrupt our children. The "perfect storm" has been created by the convergence of the promises our government has made through the Big Three entitlement programs: Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
January 12, 2007
Picking the terrorists' pockets
By Rebecca Hagelin
Conservatives are often accused of being anti-government. It's an unfair rap – coming, ironically, from liberals whose blind faith in government causes plenty of social ills – but the myth persists. In fact, conservatives favor a limited government that carries out its express duties (and no more) as efficiently and effectively as possible. And yes, you can find examples of government performing well – and contributing to the general welfare.
2006 Commentary
December 29, 2006
Learning from 'a glorious disaster'
By Rebecca Hagelin
It's only natural, on the threshold of a new year, to think about beginnings. So let me ask my fellow conservatives: When did the modern conservative movement get its start?
December 21, 2006
Shocker! Faithful really do sin less
By Rebecca Hagelin
In his 1971 song "Imagine," John Lennon asks us to envision a secular utopia. There's no heaven, no hell. Peace and harmony reign, and a global "brotherhood of man" flourishes. Amid this blissful state of affairs, of course, we find "no religion."
December 01, 2006
Trying to 'Rangel' the facts
By Rebecca Hagelin
It was bad enough when last month we heard John Kerry insinuate that our brave and talented troops aren't the brightest bulbs in the chandelier – that young Americans who don't pursue their education wind up "stuck in Iraq." But now Rep. Charlie Rangel is actually making an argument for Kerry's "joke" – that our troops are ignorant and motivated by nothing higher than self-interest.
November 10, 2006
Operation Homecoming
By Rebecca Hagelin
Charles Rangel is now destined to be chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee -- which means we can expect higher taxes, more government waste, and perhaps most devastating of all, the possible defunding of our troops in Iraq and maybe even a call for the reinstatement of the draft. Happy Veterans’ Day!
September 22, 2006
Book reviews that parents can use
By Rebecca Hagelin
How many millions of parents over the years have been asked this question? It’s all too easy to simply focus on who is going and forget that we need to look at what they’re going to before we arrange the transportation (i.e., whether you’re taking or picking up).
September 15, 2006
On the Right Road
By Rebecca Hagelin
Pop Quiz: Name five accomplishments in the last five years as a result of our War on Terror.
August 24, 2006
The Melody of Time
By Rebecca Hagelin
The garage "rock" band in which my eldest son spent much of his high-school life took over our basement about two years ago.screamed, "Chill Out, Mom," followed by "Parents Fret About Children's Entertainment. Maybe That's Part of the Problem."
August 08, 2006
Mom and dad, where are you?
By Rebecca Hagelin
The headline on the Sunday, Aug. 6 Washington Post style section was so visually "loud" that no other words were immediately visible to my eyes. It screamed, "Chill Out, Mom," followed by "Parents Fret About Children's Entertainment. Maybe That's Part of the Problem."
August 01, 2006
Creating a culture of belonging
By Rebecca Hagelin
Pat Fagan's demeanor was characteristically calm, thoughtful and reflective, adding even more power to his soul-penetrating words. "We have become a Culture of Rejection," he said. "In 1950, for every 100 babies born, only 12 experienced the rejection of their parents -- either through out-of-wedlock birth and their parents left, or because their parents divorced. In 2000, for every 100 born, it's 60.
July 18, 2006
Looking behind the Mideast violence
By Rebecca Hagelin
My stomach churned and my breath grew shallow as I read his emotional letter describing the carnage when scores of U.S. Marines were pulverized by a single terrorist in Beirut. The man who would one day become my husband was on bridge watch aboard the USS Joseph Hewes, patrolling the gunline just off the beach that fateful day in 1983.
July 11, 2006
Ending the stigma of "Mental Illness"
By Rebecca Hagelin
You'd think nothing could compare to the heartbreak endured by families whose loved ones suffer from diseases such as cancer or muscular dystrophy. But as a recent House committee hearing on mental health made clear, the darkest and most devastating of illnesses often deal with the brain. Why? Because of the stigma, ignorance and pathetic health-care/legal policies that surround what we still call "mental illness." Unfortunately, this phrase makes it sound as if it's all psychological. The fact is that brain diseases are just as physical as heart diseases, diabetes or any other illness of any other organ.
June 20, 2006
The unending battle against pork barrel spending
By Rebecca Hagelin
That's Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, speaking in defense of "earmarks." An earmark is Washington lingo for what most people outside the Capital Beltway refer to as pork barrel spending -- when a politician inserts into a bill a set amount of money for a specific project in his or her home district.
June 13, 2006
Life With -- and Without -- Father
By Rebecca Hagelin
Judging by the way they're often depicted in pop culture, the answer would seem to be no. From the big screen to the small screen, from books to advertisements, fathers are mostly bumblers, abusers or dullards.
May 23, 2006
Putting Patients in Charge
By Rebecca Hagelin
Imagine selecting your own health plan, rather than simply accepting the one your employer picks for you. Picture a plan that you own -- that follows you from job to job and place to place.
May 16, 2006
Untying the immigration knot
By Rebecca Hagelin
"It would end the U.S. as we currently know it." That's Robert Rector of The Heritage Foundation, speaking of what would happen if an immigration proposal by Sens. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) and Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) becomes law. Their plan would grant amnesty to 9 million to 10 million illegal immigrants and put those immigrants on a path to citizenship.
May 02, 2006
Digging for the truth
By Rebecca Hagelin
If you're one of the millions of people who have watched John Stossel's incisive and hard-hitting reports on ABC's 20/20 over the years, you know that he's one of the best reporters in the business. But you may not know that he's also an entertaining speaker -- one who knows how to bring a crowd to its feet with a unique blend of truth and humor.
April 04, 2006
Manhunt: A lesson in history and conservative values
By Rebecca Hagelin
"Why are you here?" I asked, only half joking. James Swanson -- overnight sensation and best-selling author of Manhunt: The Twelve Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer, grinned as he continued to sort the papers in his office on a Friday afternoon, which also happened to be the prettiest spring day at the height of cherry blossom season in Washington, D.C.
March 14, 2006
A beneficial budget blueprint
By Rebecca Hagelin
Thanks to the outrageous, profligate spending habits of our elected officials, every taxpayer reading this is in serious trouble.
As Heritage Foundation budget expert Brian Riedl notes in a recent Web Memo, lawmakers are spending at such a frantic clip that if they don't stop the madness, within a decade taxes will have to increase by nearly $7,000 per household just to balance the budget. And that's on top of the $18,000 per family Congress is already collecting.
March 07, 2006
Getting America Right
By Rebecca Hagelin
How did it come to this? How did conservative leaders lose their way? And what must be done now to get America on the right path before it's too late? You'll find all the answers in "Getting America Right,"
February 21, 2006
The lessons of school choice
By Rebecca Hagelin
Choosing how your children are educated should be as routine in America as the ability to choose your neighborhood, your church and your place of employment.
February 14, 2006
More Than Merely "Off Course"
By Rebecca Hagelin
Imagine, for a moment, you're back in 2000. A visitor from the present day arrives and tells you that Washington is spending almost $22,000 per household, the most since World War II and one third higher than it was in 2001. Your reaction?
If you're like most conservatives, you'd probably say, "I guess the liberals won."
We know otherwise. And that makes the spending impossible to explain. In fact, some people wind up sounding a bit foolish. They'll sheepishly admit that, yes, budget mistakes have been made. But, they say, we've simply drifted off course.
February 07, 2006
A Plan for Iran
By Rebecca Hagelin
Iran today stands at a crossroads. In one direction lies peace. In the other, isolation, economic harm, international denunciation, military pressure ? maybe even war. Which road will Iran's leaders choose?
January 30, 2006
A Revolution on the Hill
By Rebecca Hagelin
"We must marry fiscal and moral renewal in our agenda. We are composed of men and women who are committed to principle -- this is not just a time for challenge, it's a time for opportunity."
January 24, 2006
New Study Shows Pro-Life Laws Save Lives
By Rebecca Hagelin
Unanimous verdicts by the Supreme Court are rare. Yet, last week, we witnessed one -- and in an abortion case, no less.
January 10, 2006
Spreading Economic Freedom
By Rebecca Hagelin
Flip through the 2006 "Index of Economic Freedom," and you'll see numbers -- lots of them.
That's hardly surprising. After all, the Index (published annually by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal) provides a snapshot of how much economic freedom can be found in every nation. That takes numbers, and the Index provides them -- in abundance. From inflation to taxation, it's all there in black and white.
January 03, 2006
Happy New Year
By Rebecca Hagelin
International Best-Selling Author Brian Tracy has done it again: written a book that sears the conscience and challenges conventional thinking with deep thinking.
2005 Commentary
December 20, 2005
Winning an "Inevitable" Victory
By Rebecca Hagelin
Those who follow politics and government are well acquainted with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's sterling character, invaluable experience and superb qualifications for the post.
December 13, 2005
The War on Christmas
By Rebecca Hagelin
You may know John Gibson as host of the Fox News show "The Big Story," which airs weeknights at 5:00 p.m. (and is currently the sixth most popular news show). Or perhaps you know him from his crackerjack reporting days at NBC and MSNBC.
December 06, 2005
XXXMas
By Rebecca Hagelin
You see them on people walking down the street. On joggers. On subway riders. On shoppers at the mall. Men and women, old and young -- no one is immune. They're Apple iPods, and like many other electronic gadgets, they seem to have taken over the world.
November 29, 2005
A Real Education
By Rebecca Hagelin
Imagine having the chance to attend one of the best colleges in the world. I'm talking about a place where you could soak up the wise musings of some of the brightest minds around. GPAs don't matter: All that's required is an inquisitive mind. Forget scheduling conflicts -- these educators are ready when you're ready. And it won't cost you a thing.
November 22, 2005
Forging a Healthy "BOND"
By Rebecca Hagelin
It's easy to get lost in the hustle and bustle of a busy Thanksgiving and forget that we gather for a simple and sacred purpose -- to say thanks.
November 15, 2005
Our Great Charter of Liberty
By Rebecca Hagelin
With the confirmation of John Roberts as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to fill the seat vacated by retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, we're hearing a lot about "original intent" when it comes to interpreting the U.S. Constitution.
November 08, 2005
All dolled up and no place to go
By Rebecca Hagelin
A new catalog from the American Girl doll company arrived in the mail recently – something my daughter Kristin and I used to really look forward to.
November 01, 2005
Men of Character, Boys of Fortune
By Rebecca Hagelin
Picture the scene: Boys and their parents gathered to discuss a "youthful indiscretion" and its consequences. I was once at such a meeting, and I was struck by the thought that what America needs perhaps more than anything else is fathers who will father.
October 25, 2005
Getting Rid of Reckless Spending
By Rebecca Hagelin
I've never been more thankful or proud to work at The Heritage Foundation than I was on Thursday, Oct. 20.
October 18, 2005
Taking the Heat
By Rebecca Hagelin
"In fire, gold is tested," the saying goes. Just ask Mike Pence. A third-term congressman from Indiana, Pence has been sorely tested lately, enduring a fire that few of us would want to withstand -- and he's demonstrating that he's as good as gold.
October 11, 2005
Looking for that Silver Lining
By Rebecca Hagelin
"If I can stop one heart from breaking," Emily Dickinson once wrote, "I shall not live in vain." Imagine, then, what the poet would think of Andrea Yaeger.
October 04, 2005
Don't be Manipulated by the Master Marketers
By Rebecca Hagelin
When you think of "marketing," what images come to mind?Chances are, you're thinking of a large company that makes a certain product -- food, cars, computers, you name it. In other words, a physical thing you buy with money.
September 27, 2005
Sounding the Alarm Bell
By Rebecca Hagelin
Thousands of anti-war protesters (and pro-war counter protesters) marched in Washington, D.C., this past weekend, and emotions ran high.
September 20, 2005
Dishing out some Hart-felt wisdom
By Rebecca Hagelin
Have you ever met a perfect parent? Me neither. Yet book after book, magazine after magazine, could easily lead you to believe otherwise.
September 13, 2005
Tools in the Daily Battle
By Rebecca Hagelin
It isn't hard to convince most parents to enlist in the daily battle for the hearts and minds of their children -- the evidence of cultural rot is all around. But many lack the practical tools they need to assure victory.
September 06, 2005
Throwing Out the Thugs
By Rebecca Hagelin
"Women and children first." This famous, selfless cry for the safety of others is best associated with the tragedy of the Titanic, when thousands lost their lives in the frozen waters of the sea so many years ago.
August 30, 2005
The Proper Role of Judges
By Rebecca Hagelin
The American Bar Association says John Roberts is "well qualified" to sit on the Supreme Court. Former Attorney General Edwin Meese calls him "a judge of unquestionable integrity and proven fidelity to the Constitution and the rule of law."
August 23, 2005
Fashioning a Response to Immodest Clothing
By Rebecca Hagelin
It's not uncommon for parents who fight the culture on a daily basis to assume they're alone -- that no one else shares their concerns.
August 16, 2005
Are your kids reading rot?
By Rebecca Hagelin
Reading isn't always good for our kids. How's that for an opening sentence to stir a little controversy among the educational elites?
August 09, 2005
The Culture War: A Five-Point Plan for Parents
By Rebecca Hagelin
As I travel the country speaking about my book, Home Invasion: Protecting Your Family in a Culture that's Gone Stark Raving Mad, I'm met with nearly universal desperation from parents who are sick and tired of the battle for their kids' hearts, minds and very souls.
July 29, 2005
Girls' Swimsuit Selection A Crying Shame
By Rebecca Hagelin
If you don't have young girls, then you probably can't understand the dilemma. It's quite simple, really. The problem is that there are virtually no swimsuits, tops or shorts designed for tweens and teens that don't resemble something a streetwalker would wear.
July 22, 2005
Debunking the Siren Song of "Safe Sex"
By Rebecca Hagelin
When it comes to drug abuse, underage drinking and smoking, recent years have seen the arrival of much-needed media campaigns and school programs designed to let kids know flat out: Do not engage.
July 15, 2005
Court of Public Opinion
By Rebecca Hagelin
You know the phrase "round up the usual suspects"? That's exactly what those of us battling on the front lines of the culture war often do when we perceive a threat to our children.
July 08, 2005
Worth Fighting For
By Rebecca Hagelin
But the truly toxic heat bellowed from the chambers of the U.S. Senate as Ted Kennedy took the floor.
June 24, 2005
Leaning Hard on Government
By Rebecca Hagelin
Believe me, I don't want to ruin anybody's fun preparing for Independence Day celebrations. Like so many of you, I'll be out there when July 4 rolls around enjoying family, food and fireworks and toasting everything that makes America great.
June 17, 2005
Dad, We Need You
By Rebecca Hagelin
It's a simple message, but one rarely heard in today's culture. The sad reality is that we live in a society where the message to fathers is, "You're irrelevant. You're useless. You are a loser."
June 10, 2005
Faith of Our Fathers
By Rebecca Hagelin
Dads, you know you can expect some nice gifts from your families when Father's Day arrives on the 19th. But nothing compares to what you can give them all year long -- the gift of faith.
May 27, 2005
Connecting the Dots
By Rebecca Hagelin
Crammed upside down at the bottom of a trash bin with cement blocks piled on top of her tiny body, yet another of America's little girls was seen as nothing more than garbage.
May 20, 2005
The Power of Parenting
By Rebecca Hagelin
May 13, 2005
How to Take Back Your Home
By Rebecca Hagelin
After listening to caller feedback on the scores of radio interviews I've done so far on my new book, "Home Invasion: Protecting Your Family in a Culture That's Gone Stark Raving Mad,"
May 06, 2005
Becoming an Eagle Scout
By Rebecca Hagelin
I'm not sure if the soft pink glow of her cheeks was a reflection of the beautiful rose sweater she wore to the ceremony that day or not.
April 29, 2005
A Culture Awash In Porn
By Rebecca Hagelin
"Porn is just another form of entertainment now." The speaker, an 18-year-old concession-stand worker named Ben Meredith, was explaining to a Los Angeles Times
April 22, 2005
Heroes
By Rebecca Hagelin
My life has been filled with heroes. My own father was a giant of a man who understood that fathers and mothers are the most important forces in their children's lives.
April 15, 2005
Home Invasion
By Rebecca Hagelin
The following is an excerpt from Rebecca Hagelin's new book, Home Invasion: Protecting Your Family in a Culture that's Gone Stark Raving Mad, which hit Amazon.com's best seller list within 24 hours of release.
April 08, 2005
Scouting: Memories for a lifetime
By Rebecca Hagelin
The orange flames of the firelight reflected in his glimmering eyes and made his young face glow like a new moon.
April 01, 2005
Uncle Sam's nasty Ponzi scheme
By Rebecca Hagelin
I've got three teenagers, and like most parents, I dream that they will one day have families and children of their own.
March 24, 2005
Do you know your family?
By Rebecca Hagelin
What a silly question, you may think. "Of course we know each other," some parents reply. "We live under the same roof. We see each other daily.
March 18, 2005
MTV's poisoning our kids
By Rebecca Hagelin
This astounding statement is one that every parent, and anyone concerned about our culture and its affect on children, must investigate.
March 11, 2005
Nightmare in Neverland
By Rebecca Hagelin
Lately I've heard many people ask, "What kind of mother would let her child 'sleep over' at Michael Jackson's house?"
March 04, 2005
America's little girls ... or tramps?
By Rebecca Hagelin
It's been quite cold here in Northern Virginia this past week - we've had below freezing temperatures and enough snow and ice to close local schools for two days.
February 25, 2005
America's Children Search for Meaning
By Rebecca Hagelin
It felt more like a juvenile detention center during lockdown than lunchtime in my neighborhood public middle school. Teachers were strategically stationed throughout the cafeteria about 20 feet apart.
February 18, 2005
Making "Right Turns" Into Conservatism
By Rebecca Hagelin
Sitting in a radio studio towering above New York City in the Empire State Building was the highlight of one of my many trips to New York. But not because of the view.
February 11, 2005
Parents Beware!
By Rebecca Hagelin
Parents, does the school your children attend feature a sex-education program that's billed as "abstinence-based" or "abstinence-plus"?
February 03, 2005
Enough Fear
By Rebecca Hagelin
Do you believe in the transforming power of freedom? The Iraqi people do. You could see it etched deeply in the faces of those who went proudly to the polls last...
January 28, 2005
The Ups and Downs of Marriage
By Rebecca Hagelin
For supporters of traditional marriage, 2004 was quite a roller-coaster ride
January 21, 2005
Saluting our Troops
By Rebecca Hagelin
To take the true measure of a man, they say, watch not what he says but what he does.
January 14, 2005
A 'Mandate' for Accountability
By Rebecca Hagelin
You don't have to work in Washington for long before you realize how easy it is to succumb to the spirit of pessimism.
January 07, 2005
Economic Policies are Moral Issues
By Rebecca Hagelin
How can it be, that in a time when "conservatives" are running the country, the United States is losing it's grasp on any kind of freedom – let alone economic freedom?
2004 Commentary
December 17, 2004
Selling a Dangerous Lie
By Rebecca Hagelin
What is it about sex education that causes some otherwise rational adults to behave irrationally? When it comes to other topics -- smoking, drinking, drug abuse -- we don't hesitate to give our children the benefit of an unambiguous "no.
December 10, 2004
Are your kids web wise?
By Rebecca Hagelin
Are your kids web wise?
December 03, 2004
Agenda-driven Entertainment
By Rebecca Hagelin
There's just no such thing as a passive sitcom.
November 26, 2004
Rich Miniter
By Rebecca Hagelin
But it's a little difficult to chat about the frivolous things of life when you're with Rich.
November 12, 2004
Street Saints
By Rebecca Hagelin
November 05, 2004
Life is Bigger Than Politics
By Rebecca Hagelin
People of strong faith will not be duped – they know when a candidate cares more about the clever use of words than he does about their values.
October 29, 2004
The End of Illusions
By Rebecca Hagelin
He was a brutal dictator, a crazed man, the personification of evil.
October 22, 2004
Does he or doesn't he?
By Rebecca Hagelin
Senator Kerry is trying to make the practice of faith an issue in the presidential election. But if
October 15, 2004
Your Kids Need You
By Rebecca Hagelin
Family trips don't have to be expensive or filled with endless planned activities and tours, and the meals don't have to be fancy. They just have to be.
October 08, 2004
Elaine Chao is looking out for you!
By Rebecca Hagelin
Bill O'Reilly frequently asks the question, "Who's Looking Out For You?" When it comes to workers, that someone is Elaine Chao.
September 29, 2004
The Smart Vote
By Rebecca Hagelin
Advocates of same-sex "marriage" are known to reach for one of the oldest arguments in the liberal arsenal – that a vote in favor of their point of view is a "smart" vote, and a vote against it is the mark of a knuckle-dragging reactionary.
September 21, 2004
Joe Scarborough is one feisty guy
By Rebecca Hagelin
For loyal fans (and loyal enemies) of his energetic MSNBC show, "Scarborough Country," my characterizing Joe as "feisty" comes as no real surprise.
September 14, 2004
Convention Reflections
By Rebecca Hagelin
From our seats way up near the rafters in Madison Square Garden, my daughter and I had a great view of the crowd's reactions to President Bush's acceptance speech on the final night of the Republican National Convention.
September 07, 2004
'Inside the Beltway'
By Rebecca Hagelin
"Inside the Beltway" is a book that has what folks crave: the inside information on the people who run our country. What makes them tick.
August 31, 2004
Here comes the judge ? not!
By Rebecca Hagelin
In the lazy days of late summer, when Congress is off campaigning and Washington more or less grinds to a halt, it's easy to forget those poor judges that President Bush nominated to various federal judgeships – seemingly ages ago.
August 24, 2004
Bringing Justice to the People
By Rebecca Hagelin
The book, "Bringing Justice to the People," describes the 30-year history of the freedom-based public-interest law movement.
August 17, 2004
Teaching Good Manners
By Rebecca Hagelin
Want to know how you're doing as a parent? Check out how your children are doing when it comes to minding their manners.
August 10, 2004
What Constitutes Cool
By Rebecca Hagelin
As I wrote in my column two weeks ago, marketers are out to get America's youth, and they'll stop at nothing in the name of "entertainment" to do it.
July 27, 2004
Selling Selfishness to Children
By Rebecca Hagelin
So just what does McDonald's put on those Big Macs? Let's hear it, everyone 35 or older. A one, and a two, and a ... "Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame-seed bun."
July 20, 2004
Understanding 'The Siege'
By Rebecca Hagelin
Those of you who are sick and tired of watching liberals drool over Michael Moore's miserable "Fahrenheit 9-11" are probably wondering why our side doesn't have something better to watch. Well, now we do.
July 13, 2004
Defining marriage: Who decides?
By Rebecca Hagelin
This week, the United States Senate will take the first step in deciding who gets to define marriage for the entire nation: activist judges – or the American people.
June 29, 2004
What's at stake in marriage debate
By Rebecca Hagelin
Some might argue that two men or two women could form such a bond. My faith tells me such blessings could come only from what is natural.
June 21, 2004
Hands of horror, hands of hope
By Rebecca Hagelin
As I struggle to find the words to describe the horror of what I have learned, I find myself doing more tossing and turning than mental writing.
June 15, 2004
The 2nd Reagan Revolution
By Rebecca Hagelin
More than 100,000 people waited in line for hours in California to have the opportunity to walk near his casket. The scene was repeated in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol.
June 08, 2004
The Gipper's Greatness
By Rebecca Hagelin
It has been a true blessing over the last few days to hear my Heritage Foundation colleagues Ed Feulner, Ed Meese, Becky Norton Dunlop and Lee Edwards, who all spent many years with President Ronald Reagan, give their personal insights into this great American president, world leader and man among men.
June 01, 2004
Looking fear in the eye
By Rebecca Hagelin
Thousands of veterans are descending on Washington for the dedication of the World War II Memorial on the Mall over Memorial Day weekend. And about the time the celebration dies down here, another will begin at the D-Day Museum in New Orleans to mark the 60th anniversary of Somma's cold, dark trip up those bluffs.
May 26, 2004
Down the Sewer to Abu Ghraib
By Rebecca Hagelin
The horrific images of degrading acts by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison are, in a sense, nothing new. Millions of Americans feast on similar scenes every day.
May 25, 2004
B-24 gunner steps back into history
By Rebecca Hagelin
He wore his very best poker face as he climbed carefully through the bomb-bay doors and into the fuselage, his grandsons scrambling in close behind. For my wonderful father-in-law, it had to have been an emotional moment.
May 19, 2004
Was God Wrong?
By Rebecca Hagelin
For the first time in America's great history, same-sex marriage is legal within our borders. It's time we ask ourselves: "Was God wrong?" For far too many, this basic question has been missing from the debate over the redefinition of marriage.
May 11, 2004
Prisoner abuse and the rot of American culture
By Rebecca Hagelin
Every decent person I know has reacted in horror to the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners in Al Ghraib prison near Baghdad.
May 04, 2004
Coaching for Life
By Rebecca Hagelin
Reclaim your role as parent through admitting both your past failures and your new resolve to coach your child in unconditional principles and unconditional love.
April 28, 2004
Teens can be Responsible
By Rebecca Hagelin
When was the last time you looked at a high-school "health" book? If it's been awhile, you'd probably be more than a little shocked by the content of what is known as "Family Life Education" in many states.
April 20, 2004
The Educated Citizen
By Rebecca Hagelin
As election 2004 swings into full gear with all of the promises, rhetoric, charges and counter-charges that come with it, it's important that potential voters understand the issues.
April 13, 2004
Bennett, Iraq & doing what is right
By Rebecca Hagelin
Yes, the situation in Iraq is messy, Bennett said in a powerful speech "In the issue that matters most – our survival, the civilized world's survival, the spread of democracy, the war against terrorism and radical Islam – the president is right and his critics wrong."
March 31, 2004
The 1st rule of holes
By Rebecca Hagelin
The shrill pitch of my 2-year-old's voice was nearly deafening. There was no mistaking his mood – the kid was mad. Although the angry 2-year-old is now 15, I remember the scene as if it was yesterday.
March 23, 2004
Sean Hannity is the real deal
By Rebecca Hagelin
Observing Sean Hannity "work a room" is like watching someone welcome a good friend into his home.
March 09, 2004
An Oasis in the Desert
By Rebecca Hagelin
Quite a few Heritage folks have been on Marlin Maddoux's radio show on USA Radio Network. He passed away last week, I'm sorry to report, but thanks to moving tributes memories of him will live on.
February 24, 2004
Can you handle the Truth?
By Rebecca Hagelin
If you've never met Jesus, if you've never experienced who he is – "The Passion" will introduce him to you in a very personal way. It will then be up to you to decide whether or not you want to actually know him as the Truth.
February 17, 2004
Help For Your Marriage!
By Rebecca Hagelin
I'm convinced that for every wife who dedicates one afternoon to read "The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands" and then follows its advice, there will emerge one invincible and thoroughly happy couple passionately in love and ready to take on the world.
February 10, 2004
The beginning of the end?
By Rebecca Hagelin
Four activist judges in Massachusetts may have just marked the beginning of the end for America by destroying the building block of society, and replacing it with nothing more than straw.
February 03, 2004
Cultural Terrorism
By Rebecca Hagelin
The over-sexualized commercials – of which I saw a few – should have tipped me off that even the Super Bowl is no longer family-friendly.
January 27, 2004
Cal Thomas for president?
By Rebecca Hagelin
Cal reminds us of basic truths and principles of living that have stood the test of time – principles like virtue, commitment, hard work, liberty, unconditional love, accountability and faith in God. His commentaries urge all of us to be true to these timeless values in our own lives, and to demand that our elected officials do the same.
January 21, 2004
Escaping the 'Plantation'
By Rebecca Hagelin
To meet Star Parker is to come face-to-face with hope. Her radiant smile and graceful manner make you feel as if you've known her all your life. She is kind and sincere, and an unmistakable twinkle in her eye gives you the impression she has a beautiful secret to share that could change your life forever.
January 13, 2004
International Comparisons of Economic Freedom
By Rebecca Hagelin
Hot off the presses is the 2004 "Index of Economic After a decade of producing the "Index," a central theme resounds: Countries with greater economic freedom enjoy higher standards of living and higher per capita income than do other nations.
2003 Commentary
December 16, 2003
What this means to the Iraqis
By Rebecca Hagelin
I'm sure my sons and daughter will forever remember the sight of the tyrannical dictator Saddam Hussein in complete humiliation as an American service doctor picked through his mangy hair for lice. So will the millions who survived his hellish rule.
December 09, 2003
Demand less from government, not more!
By Rebecca Hagelin
Those who claim to be fighting for smaller government and greater individual freedom ought to be asking themselves: In what do I believe?
December 03, 2003
Bring Back Human Kindness – Please!
By Rebecca Hagelin
Recently I was taking a van loaded with kids, ages 11 to 16, home from a night at the movies. When I dropped them off at their respective homes, something was obviously missing as nearly every child jumped out and slammed the van door. It was mildly shocking when it first "happened," perhaps an oversight, I told myself. But as the omission turned into a pattern, it became more than shocking – it was maddening.
November 25, 2003
Re-examining Reagan
By Rebecca Hagelin
Make no mistake, it wasn't the letter from Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie that got CBS to pull the plug on its "The Reagans" miniseries.
November 19, 2003
The Sobering Cost of War
By Rebecca Hagelin
"Guys, chances are, someday you will go to war."
These were the sobering words my husband, Andy, spoke to our sons within days after that fateful September morning now known as 9-11.
November 11, 2003
Veterans, the Courts and Religious Liberty
By Rebecca Hagelin
As Americans across the land pay tribute to our men and women in uniform today, our courts are systematically dismantling many of the rights that thousands have died on lonely battlefields to protect.
November 05, 2003
Commuting Through History
By Rebecca Hagelin
When I talk to friends who live "out there in the real world," inevitably they end up asking me how I like driving "in all that traffic." The truth is, I love my daily commute from Arlington to the heart of our nation's capital.
October 28, 2003
A Visit From the Veep
By Rebecca Hagelin
When Vice President Richard Cheney came here recently to give a speech, I must admit it was a heart-stopping event that reminded me that the war against evil that was set in motion after the events of September 11 is a war we must continue, and one well worth fighting.
October 22, 2003
Rush, pain and drugs
By Rebecca Hagelin
Rush Limbaugh's recent travails have me thinking about my mom a lot lately. Sometimes her face comes to me in the middle of the night, not in a dream, but when I'm half-awake as I roll over.
October 14, 2003
Marriage Protection Week – we shouldn't need it
By Rebecca Hagelin
It's clear that protecting marriage is no longer enough: We need to encourage it, to strengthen it.
October 07, 2003
Criminal?
By Rebecca Hagelin
America started out with three federal laws – treason, counterfeiting and piracy. In 1998, the American Bar Association counted more than 3,300 separate federal criminal offenses on the books –
September 30, 2003
Parenting II: We're all in this together
By Rebecca Hagelin
Yes, they will learn about the world soon enough. But if, when that time comes, they're prepared to make proper moral judgments – the judgments you've helped them learn to make – then you've succeeded in the most important job in the world: parenting.
September 16, 2003
Parenting: You only get one chance to do it right
By Rebecca Hagelin
Because pre-teens as a group now spend millions of dollars every year, we're targeting kids with graphic sexual images at younger and younger ages.
September 09, 2003
Just say 'no' to 'modern sex-ed'
By Rebecca Hagelin
What schools should be telling our children in health or biology classes is that sex outside of marriage is harmful, and just plain wrong. They should also be equipped with ways on how to say "no."
September 02, 2003
A Clean Record
By Rebecca Hagelin
A lot of folks I know who have teen-age kids actually hire a housekeeper or cleaning company to do the dirty work around their homes. Not me. Nope – it seems immoral to pay another adult to clean up after healthy children. Although life would be a lot easier at the moment if we could come home to a magically clean house, in the end, I know I'd be teaching my kids to be irresponsible and lazy. Unfortunately, it seems too many folks have gotten used to someone else cleaning up after them.
August 19, 2003
Blessings of the Web
By Rebecca Hagelin
I've often wondered what exactly Albert Gore envisioned when he was, um, "inventing" the Internet.
August 12, 2003
Jolted!
By Rebecca Hagelin
Have you ever been asleep on a plane, only to be rudely awakened by a sudden jolt? One minute, it's smooth flying. The next, BAM!
August 05, 2003
An Education in "School Choice"
By Rebecca Hagelin
My husband and I have always been blessed with enough of an income that the educational choices we make for our kids are based more on our children's needs than on what is "affordable."
July 29, 2003
From Disaster to Disaster
By Rebecca Hagelin
Instead of racing around to wrecks, fights and other small disasters, we're trying to keep the country safe from the huge disaster that would result if Congress doesn't come to its senses about how to create a prescription-drug benefit for seniors.
July 22, 2003
It's Still About a Better Education
By Rebecca Hagelin
Researcher Donavan Wilson has an interesting theory about why so many people here in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere, remain so implacably opposed to school vouchers.
July 15, 2003
Just Say No to Budget-Busting Entitlement
By Rebecca Hagelin
Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., braced for the worst. His vote against the Medicare legislation in the House of Representatives nearly sunk the bill.
July 08, 2003
Commit Yourself to Freedom!
By Rebecca Hagelin
One recent fine spring morning as I started to leave for work, I found that the police had left little presents on both my husband's car and my car.
June 24, 2003
A 'Cure' That'll Make Things Worse
By Rebecca Hagelin
To meet a deadline that means nothing, set only to satisfy a president who seems not to notice, the Senate is preparing to pass legislation that would make HillaryCare -- the former first lady's proposal to socialize American medicine -- look like sound public policy.
June 17, 2003
Feminist kill-joys target marriage
By Rebecca Hagelin
Politicians will tell you there are certain things in America that you just can't oppose. You can't be against mom or apple pie or jobs. You can't be against good schools or clean air or low crime rates. You might expect to find marriage on the list.
June 03, 2003
Sex, sadness and suicide
By Rebecca Hagelin
Sex, sadness and suicide
May 27, 2003
Sex and abstinence: Wait loss
By Rebecca Hagelin
Sex and abstinence: Wait loss
May 23, 2003
Now it Can Be Said
By Rebecca Hagelin
It's time somebody say it loud and clear: God designed marriage as the ideal institution for creating a prosperous, stable and healthy environment for children.
May 13, 2003
YWCA: Off Course ... Again
By Rebecca Hagelin
YWCA: Off Course ... Again: Rebecca Hagelin discusses the history of the YWCA and its new president, Patricia Ireland, the former head of the National Organization of Women.
May 06, 2003
Remembering Mom on Mother's Day
By Rebecca Hagelin
Remembering Mom on Mother's Day: Rebecca Hagelin recalls her mother's words of wisdom as she was growing up and finding her way in life.
April 29, 2003
The Hope of Our Nation
By Rebecca Hagelin
The Hope of Our Nation: Rebecca Hagelin conveys her affection for Shirley Dobson, the chairman of the National Day of Prayer, after hearing a speech by Dobson that displayed her passion and dedication for the cause about which she spoke.
April 22, 2003
It's Not Freedom From Religion - Part 2
By Rebecca Hagelin
It's Not Freedom From Religion - Part 2: Rebecca Hagelin questions whether the issue of religion in schools surrounds bias against all religious speech, or if Christianity, in particular, is being singled out.
April 15, 2003
Heritage for the Future
By Rebecca Hagelin
Heritage for the Future: Rebecca Hagelin describes life in the year following her parents' deaths, including her position with The Heritage Foundation.
April 01, 2003
Iraqis and Soldiers Need Time
By Rebecca Hagelin
Iraqis and Soldiers Need Time: Rebecca Hagelin of The Heritage Foundation encourages patience and understanding regarding the pace of the war with Iraq and the apprehension of the Iraqi people to rejoice at the sight of foreign soldiers.
March 26, 2003
The other side of the story
By Rebecca Hagelin
The other side of the story
March 18, 2003
Ulterior Motives
By Rebecca Hagelin
Ulterior Motives
March 04, 2003
At least get your story straight!
By Rebecca Hagelin
At least get your story straight!
February 25, 2003
An outrage, pure and simple!
By Rebecca Hagelin
An outrage, pure and simple!
February 12, 2003
From One Mom to Another
By Rebecca Hagelin
From One Mom to Another
February 05, 2003
Aiming for the stars
By Rebecca Hagelin
Aiming for the stars
January 29, 2003
Payback for the rich?
By Rebecca Hagelin
Payback for the rich?
January 22, 2003
Copy of Kids slipping through the cracks
By Rebecca Hagelin
Kids slipping through the cracks
January 15, 2003
Help for Congress
By Rebecca Hagelin
Help for Congress
January 08, 2003
ed010803: A healthy debate
By Rebecca Hagelin
ed010803: A healthy debate
January 02, 2003
Stronger Marriages, Stronger Society
By Rebecca Hagelin
Stronger Marriages, Stronger Society
2002 Commentary
April 16, 2002
A Tribute to Papa Doc
By Rebecca Hagelin
Dr. Henry J. Redd Jr. lived the life we should all strive for. He wasn't just a good man; he was extraordinary. I count it among the greatest of blessings to have been his daughter.
November 6, 2009
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