December 2003 -- Communist China is experiencing a sexual revolution, and Beijing is not at all happy about it. Sexologist Li Yinhe believes that while less than two decades ago only 16 percent of Chinese engaged in premarital sex, today at least 60 percent do. One-night stands, urban bar scenes, and open Internet discussions of sexual issues are now common among young people. It’s no mystery why the communist authorities are chagrined by this revolution. George Orwell's 1984 was published in 1949, the year the communists took over China. It depicted a future Stalinist regime in which sex, except for producing children, is prohibited and punishable by death. Similar to Orwell's nightmare, public displays of affection in Red China—even handholding—were banned, and romantic relationships could get one fired or worse. Clothing in Orwell's world is unattractive and unisexual. China followed as Orwell foretold—remember those Mao jackets? Unable to fight a totalitarian regime and secret police, a woman in Orwell's hell rebels by having as many pleasurable, secret sexual trysts as possible. China now is at that stage, though the rebellion is very public.

Mar 16, 2010

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Edward Hudgins

September 6, 2001 -- The mountains are ablaze. The chickens of the radical environmental movement have come home to roast. While screaming that trees are sacred and should never be harvested, the radical greens deny their responsibility for the horrendous destruction that now visits our western forest. But they are responsible, and the billions spent on fire suppression, the gut-wrenching pain of those who lose their homes, the hundreds of thousands of acres of forests annihilated, and the injury and death caused by these fires are the direct result of their actions. To lock up our Western forests from active management is unconscionable. Letting the dead trees accumulate without salvaging them has allowed fuels to build on the forest floor until virtually any fire is a catastrophe. Designating millions of western acres as roadless, without access for management, and denying rational management of the national properties is causing nature to react by destroying the very beauty these people claim to want to protect forever.

Mar 16, 2010

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March 5, 2002 -- On March 6, 1982, writer and philosopher Ayn Rand died. Her novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and non-fiction works like Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal were major influences on the development of the libertarian movement, and in the two decades since her death, the accuracy of her insights has been demonstrated time and again. Ayn Rand was born in 1905 in czarist Russia. Before she left in 1926, she witnessed the rise of that most evil empire, a communist regime that would take the lives, liberty, and property of millions of people. She understood firsthand the horrid consequences of evil philosophies and the importance of defending the right ideas for the right reasons.

Mar 16, 2010

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Edward Hudgins

October 11, 2007 -- Two important events occurred in October 1957. First, the Soviet Union launched into orbit the first artificial satellite, named Sputnik, causing many to speculate that the West was losing to the superior technology and, possibly, inevitable ideology of communism. Second, the novel Atlas Shrugged was published. Its author, Ayn Rand , had fled the tyranny of Soviet communism in 1926 for freedom in the West. Ayn Rand's ideas are needed today, to provide the basis for a culture of principled individualism. Today, communism in Russia and its satellite countries is dead. Atlas Shrugged and Ayn Rand's other works continue to sell millions of copies. A 1992 Library of Congress survey found it to be the most influential book in the country after the Bible. It helped launch the modern free market and libertarian movement.

Mar 16, 2010

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Edward Hudgins

July 20, 2004--It has been three and a half decades now since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first of a dozen men to walk on the

Mar 16, 2010

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Edward Hudgins

3 mins

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

Mar 16, 2010

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Edward Hudgins

3 mins

She was born on February 2, 1905, in Russia. At the age of nine, she decided she wanted to become a writer. As a teenager, she lived through

Mar 16, 2010

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Edward Hudgins

4 Mins

Many critics argue that Christopher Columbus gave us a devil's bargain. In October 1492, that Italian explorer, working for Spain, opened...

Mar 16, 2010

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Edward Hudgins

3 Mins

December 10, 2001 -- In 1897, Virginia O'Hanlon wrote to The New York Sun: “I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Sant

Mar 16, 2010

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Edward Hudgins

3 Mins

Ancient philosophers like Aristotle maintained that we create the most important thing in life for ourselves—our moral character. When

Mar 16, 2010

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Edward Hudgins

Recently, the U.S. Senate voted 78-15 to give the Food and Drug Administration unprecedented authority to regulate tobacco as a drug. The...

Mar 16, 2010

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Andrew Bissell

4 Mins

we celebrate the creation of the United States of America. Our birth certificate, the Declaration of Independence, reads, "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal.

Mar 16, 2010

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Edward Hudgins

5 Mins

January 1, 2001 -- "Is civilization really going down the tube?" asked New York Times art critic Michael Kimmelman in an article entitled...

Mar 16, 2010

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3 Mins

April 3, 2001 -- Human life begins at conception. Biologically speaking, human life begins when a cell with 23 pairs of chromosomes capable

Mar 16, 2010

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Patrick Stephens

3 Mins

Faced with the high costs of malpractice insurance and bogus lawsuits, plus onerous government regulations and mountains of bureaucratic....

Mar 16, 2010

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Edward Hudgins

8 Mins

April 14, 2004 -- Americans celebrate July 4 with pride as the day we gained our independence. However, we should lament April 15—tax day—as the day that too many of us all too willingly surrender our liberty and opportunities in life. Here's why. All free individuals want to run their own lives. When we leave the loving protection of our parents, we should express our love for those who raised us by acting as independent adults. As grown men and women, we should look forward to the challenge of discovering and creating the goals and purposes that will give us joy in life; of acquiring the knowledge and skills we need to make a living; and of earning the resources necessary to realize our dreams.

Mar 15, 2010

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Edward Hudgins

September 4, 2001 -- Last Friday, public broadcasting stations across the country aired the last original episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. After 33 years, the series finished neither with a bang nor with a syrupy-sweet ending, but rather with Fred Rogers's trademark closing—"see you next time"—promising to return to television next week. And he will, of course—with about 1,000 episodes from the past three decades already canned, Rogers's neighborhood will be a staple for yet another generation of developing minds. Last Friday's episodes are no exception; producers plan on working them into the mix alongside his other vintage episodes.

Mar 15, 2010

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Donald Cooper

September 4, 2001 -- Last Friday, public broadcasting stations across the country aired the last original episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. After 33 years, the series finished neither with a bang nor with a syrupy-sweet ending, but rather with Fred Rogers's trademark closing—"see you next time"—promising to return to television next week. And he will, of course—with about 1,000 episodes from the past three decades already canned, Rogers's neighborhood will be a staple for yet another generation of developing minds. Last Friday's episodes are no exception; producers plan on working them into the mix alongside his other vintage episodes.

Mar 15, 2010

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Donald Cooper

January 31, 2002 -- “Thirty million Americans a year go to circuses with animal acts,” a stony-faced Peter Jennings told his ABC News

Mar 15, 2010

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Scott McPherson

3 Mins

March 28, 2003 -- American Muslims must be feeling despair over the news that Asam Akbar, a sergeant serving in Kuwait and an American

Mar 15, 2010

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Edward Hudgins

5 Mins