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Budget crisis has its roots in erosion of values

The rate of child poverty in 2009 was 11 percent in homes with married parents and 44.3 percent in homes headed by single mothers. (comments)

Free markets, individual virtue fuel prosperity

We should wonder how we have so many discussions about freedom and so few about individual free choice and personal responsibility... (comments)

Pastors must take back civil rights movement

It is high time that the black pastor, rather than the black politician, return to leadership in black American life. (comments)

Late-term abortion ban is worthy GOP goal

The Gosnell trial showed the nation that in America today, we have abortion factories where live children are being killed. (comments)

A new birth of American freedom

We have huge disconnects among large parts of our population about what a free and moral country is about. (comments)

Same-sex marriage is war on religion

This is the latest in a long process of the unraveling of American culture driven by pride -- the sense that we answer to no higher authority. (comments)

Traditional values will attract more blacks to GOP

A 2011 Gallup poll showed that whereas 39 percent of whites say they are "very religious," 53 percent of blacks do. (comments)

Mark Sanford, welcome back to Washington

The irony does not drip but pours forth like a tsunami when liberals start talking about morality and ethics. (comments)

School voucher ruling supports religious freedom

The purge of religion and traditional values from our public schools has produced a new generation of with values different from those of their parents and grandparents. (comments)

Ben Carson owes no apology for honest talk

At the National Prayer Breakfast, Ben Carson reminds us that religious ritual devoid of content is pointless and destructive. (comments)