On most days, people around the world admire the footprints of David Beckham. The super-talented British soccer star’s maneuvers around and over flummoxed defenders populate many a YouTube video. But for several years, Beckham and his family have been the targets of what the British charmingly call “campaigners” on global warming. These critics charge that the…

People around the world admire the footprints of David Beckham. The super-talented British soccer star's maneuvers around and over flummoxed defenders populate many a YouTube video. But for years, Beckham and his family have been targeted by what the British charmingly call "campaigners" against global warming. They charge that the globe-traveling Beckhams' carbon…

The Supreme Court dismayed parents across California's ban on sales of ultra-violent video games to minors. Many hail the 7-2 ruling as a victory for free speech and the First Amendment. But it's also one more message to parents that they must fend for their own families in an increasingly rudderless culture. Legal scholars are sifting through the opinions and…

No and yes.The problem of family disintegration is approaching that scale. The nation’s out-of-wedlock birth rate is more than 50 percent higher for all women of childbearing age than it was for the black American subset that so troubled the late Pat Moynihan when he wrote his study for the Labor Department in the 1960s. The poverty rate for children born to single…

His nickname was Monroe. According to my cousin Joe King, the reason was that he could recite the Monroe Doctrine from memory. That feat certainly is worthy of a nickname. At just shy of a thousand words, the Monroe Doctrine — enunciated by Pres. James Monroe in his 1823 State of the Union address — is a mouthful. Monroe’s real name was James Ryan Donovan. He…

Our nation’s simmering conscience wars have claimed another victim: the Catholic Diocese of Rockford, Ill. Once again, the conflict centered on the legal redefinition of marriage and family. But at a deeper level, what’s at stake is the future of moral and religious liberty. Previous clashes have yielded similar results. In 2006, for example, Catholic Charities in…

Marriage and family are declining in America, following a trend well established in Europe. This breakdown of the American family has dire implications for American society and the U.S. economy. Halting and reversing the sustained trends of nearly four decades will not happen by accident. The federal, state, and local governments need to eliminate marriage penalties…

The sight of Planned Parenthood’s top official turning on the charm in Austin, Texas, says everything about one of the year’s most extraordinary developments. Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood and daughter of the late Gov. Ann Richards, was in town to lobby Texas legislators to preserve the group’s access to state money. When you’re defending…

This year our National Day of Prayer is particularly well timed, since it will dawn four days after a heroic team of Navy SEALs rid the world of master terrorist Osama bin Laden. As it turns out, the White House issued President Barack Obama’s official proclamation of Thursday, May 5, as a National Day of Prayer only hours before he set in motion that successful…

God is not dead. But he might just be sick with worry about us. If a team of respected scientific researchers is right, religious belief is headed for extinction in at least nine nations. This projection, somber to some and soothing to others, got a lot of play during the recent annual meeting in Dallas of the American Physical Society. First reported by the BBC,…