There were two clear winners in the Republican debate; the energy and enthusiasm on display Monday night will produce some twists and turns no one will predict.

The New Hampshire debate has serious ramifications for Iowa. Romney behaved like a frontrunner, one with confidence and sense of command and with adroitness to step aside from two major issue challenges. You could extrapolate from Pawlenty's performance that he is a serious candidate for the nomination. But you could extrapolate much from Bachmann’s performance that she is a serious competitor in the Ames straw poll.

Ever since I was a boy, long before I had a wife and daughters, I have always thought and keenly felt that rape is a capital offense, a crime worse even than murder.

Americans' views on abortion are complicated and they have not shifted in any significant way since the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 that legalized abortion.

It's going to be hard to paint Judge Samuel Alito, President George W. Bush's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, as an extremist.

The liberation of Europe's Muslim women is the best way to encourage assimilation into Western society, but the opportunity is being wasted.

In contemporary political debate, there is no surer way to discredit and delegitimize a policy than to establish that it injures women and children.

Abortion will be at the center of a confirmation battle for any new Supreme Court nominee.