It appears that Mitt Romney has tapped Indiana’s own James Bopp to advise him on pro-life issues. Bopp, you will recall, has been instrumental in the recent partial-birth abortion cases. From my perspective, this is a clear move on Romney’s part to legitimate his more recent pro-life stance,...

On Monday the International Criminal Court (ICC) ordered Thomas Lubanga to stand trial “for war crimes consisting of enlisting and conscripting children under the age of 15.” This will mark the first trial of the ICC, and a giant leap backward for democratic autonomy. The ICC officially came...

Mike Jones, the (in)famous male prostitute who outed New Life Church founder Ted Haggard, was welcomed to that church on Sunday. “I had read a lot about the church, but there’s nothing like seeing it for yourself,” he said. “It wasn’t to rub anyone’s face in it by...

Today I received in the mail my “FREE American Bar Association membership” which is allegedly a $125 value. I’m not special though. The ABA offers free membership to every first year lawyer in the U.S. That’s a big reason why the organization is able to boast 400,000 members....

Rudy Giuliani’s 140-page dossier on how he will run for president allegedly has been leaked to the internet and is available for download here (PDF). Partly hand-written, the document has finance plans, org charts, and list of state-level campaign contacts. Not much there for most outsiders...

A North Carolina molecular scientist has developed a way to add caffeine to baked goods, without the bitter taste of the stimulant. Now each bagel or donut you have with your morning coffee can have the equivalent caffeine of about two cups worth of joe. The scientist, Robert Bohannon, has approached...

This past Sunday, the Third Sunday after the Epiphany (or Third Sunday in “Ordinary Time”) was Respect Life Sunday in the Catholic Church here in the United States. For some time, the USCCB has designated the Sunday nearest the anniversary of Roe v. Wade (410 U.S. 113 (1972)) a day of ecclesial...

It has been almost two years since “rogue economist” Steven Levitt and writer Stephen Dubner first published Freakonomics, their wildly popular romp through Levitt’s unconventional research. It’s now in its second (expanded and revised) edition and still in hardcover, after spending...

Students at Tarleton State University in Texas have caused a nationwide media stir for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day party that “mocked black stereotypes by featuring fried chicken, malt liquor and faux gang apparel,” according to this AP story. You can see photos from the party here. From...

For those of you that use the World Association of Debt Management Offices, their website has been shut down for failing to pay its debt to keep the Web address registered.