Hate crimes legislation encourages groups to vie for protected status by emphasizing the degree of their victimization.

Liberals' broad generalizations about supposed anti-Muslim sentiments in the United States actually reflect their intolerance of the American people.

There's a lot of grumbling and moping on the Right about how the Republican base doesn't like the current field of candidates. There is a sense that the contenders aren't up to beating Obama, or, if they are now, that they wouldn't be after a bruising primary battle.

We should not blame our society for the Virginia Tech massacre.

Opponents of capital punishment are extremely selective about the cases they make into public crusades. Strategically, that's smart; you don't want to lead your argument with "unsympathetic persons." But logically, it's problematic.

The murder of Pamela Waechter tells us thatit istime for national repentance, or in other words national return, from moralizing to morality.

The poor suffer the most from the decline in marriage, and they suffer because something in their environment or their culture makes it hard to form families, shun drugs, and avoid crime.

Dutch member of parliament Geert Wilders is pointing out a deeply unfashionable fact: that Europe is home to millions of unassimilated, unreconciled, extremist Muslim immigrants.