In Maine, we have found something almost as rare as a 3-legged Sasquatch. It's a Republican who wants to expand the Affordable Care Act....

You hear a lot about "enlightened self-interest" and mostly from people who think Ayn Rand's fiction illustrates a paved path...

You know, it’s a funny thing. Every so often as I wander around the more religious blogs, I trip over the hair-rippingly stupid idea that at...

No pictures today. No jokes. There'll be plenty more to come, I imagine. Today, I want to spell out what I think is happening in our cou...

"What about the Jewish heart and Jewish compassion and Jewish morality?" asks Elie Wiesel . Perhaps those are no different from...

Private morality does not seem to me to be the state’s business unless it compromises the public welfare. -Bishop Shelby Spong- _______...